tickleandrose wrote: Reply #162 - Today at 12:23pm
Quote:As I mentioned before Moses... you cannot go into the bible and find the reality. You have to look at history from a secular point of view. The truth is that, in ancient times, when, there are agriculture societies, the spring equinox was widely celebrated as a festival even before Christianity. Yes, the Jewish passover happens to fall on that day, and yes the bible states Jesus resurrected around the time of Jewish Passover, but this does not take away the fact that those holidays had already been widely celebrated anyway, and often have pagan roots.
And because back then, Christianity forbids pagans, and therefore, naturally, people had to change the name of the holidays to Easter. Clearly, a way to control a population.
Even now, the things that people do on Easter, are not necessary all Christian. For example, the egg, the bunny, and even the hot cross bun.
You haven't given any correlation between a spring equinox and the Passover.
The festival of the Passover, is an annual weeklong festival commemorating the emancipation of Jewish peoples from slavery (in ancient Egypt). It is called Passover because the plague in Egypt that killed all firstborns passed over the Israelites’ homes, sparing the lives of their children.
Your whole argument is that they coincide in dates so therefore the Passover has its' roots in the spring equinox festival.
If what you say is true you must be able to tell us how and why they changed the nature of the festival.
if they wanted to thank God for the various seasons they could have quiet easily done so, after they believe that God is the creator therefore God is the reason we have seasonal differences.
For your argument to be true you have to tell us why they changed if they originally were celebrating the spring equinox.
Coinciding dates just don't cut it, as there would have been absolutely nothing wrong with giving thanks to God for the spring.