Easter's date was chosen based on a pagan holiday, but that doesn't mean it is one. Easter is a celebratory holiday that we as Christians observe because of the day that Jesus Christ died on the cross for our sins. Easter is also based around the He paid the debt for our sins so that we don't have to. That is why we celebrate Easter.
Easter is a pagan holiday that can be dated back to the Egyptians and Babylonian times.There is nothing in the Bible saying celebrate Easter. Christ and his disciples didn't go around hunting for Easter eggs and painting them. Easter is in the Bible once and they changed the word passover to the word Easter. Look in the Zondervan's Bible Dictionary and the word easter says Passover. Christ was born on the Passover and died on the Passover.I believe the Egyptians believed in a god called Osiris who fell from the sky in an egg into the Euphrates river and then hatched.I think she was the goddess of love. That's why they use the bunny and the egg - bunny because they have a lot of offspring and the egg meaning fertility.
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