QUESTION: WHERE DOES THE TERM "EASTER" REALLY COME FROM, AND IS IT CHRISTIAN/BIBLICAL?-
The term "EASTER" historically comes from the name of the Germanic pagan goddess of spring, "OSTARA." (Also spelled EOSTRE.) It was a pagan celebration of the spring equinox, coinciding with lots of new life including baby bunnies and chicks and eggs. Spring is a time of celebrating fertility.
And this is precisely where the term EASTER originated from. Christians in the past borrowed this term somehow, perhaps because every Christian was once a sinner or a pagan before they got saved. And they may have brought this term with them to denote this season of the year.
America is truly a land of immigrants, and many of these were German and European immigrants, bringing such traditions with them.
SPRING EQUINOX occurs at the same time as PASSOVER and the celebration of the death and RESURRECTION of Jesus Christ, Savior of mankind.
While it is good and right for Christians to rejoice at such a season, the term "Easter" is derived and borrowed from the name of a pagan goddess, and should have NO place in the Christian vocabulary to describe this holy season.
Nor should parents give their children "Easter" baskets willed with the pagan symbols of fertility and spring, including bunnies and chicks and eggs. Of course, God MADE the bunnies and chicks and eggs: they are okay of themselves. But when tied in as symbols of a pagan celebration of OSTARA, they become improper and unBiblical in their use.
Hey! Give your child something BIBLICAL and glorifying to God, like a children's Bible or something Christ-centered at this time of the year, instead of tooth-rotting junk food in a basket!
CELEBRATE THE RESURRECTION OF THE CHRIST!-Pamela Rae Schuffert
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