White Christian thieves STOLE pagan festival EASTER. Is there ANYTHING they didn't STEAL?

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Easter originally had nothing to do with Jesus.

The word 'Easter' DOES NOT even occur in the Bible. It was a pagan
festival named after the Goddess Eostre.

The festival and Goddess predated Christianity by thousands of years.
Christians simply digested it.

Is there ANYTHING the super-civilized white christians didn't STEAL?

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https://blog.logos.com/2016/03/is-the-word-easter-in-the-bible/


Is the Word “Easter” in the Bible?

Mark Ward | Fri, March 11, 2016



Why is the most important Christian holiday nowhere mentioned by name in
the Bible?


Actually, the word “Easter” does appear in the Bible, but only once—and
only in one translation. Among all major English translations of the
Scripture, only the King James Version uses the word “Easter.” I won’t
go into the history of that particular translation choice, but I will go
into how to use Logos to puzzle out what’s going on—even if you don’t
know Greek. And if you don’t have Logos, stick around: I’ll explain why
this important word doesn’t show up in other English translations.



If you search your Top Bibles in Logos for “Easter,” you get just one
hit: KJV, Acts 12:4. But you, diligent student that you are, are
probably wondering, “Did they really call it ‘Easter’ that early? Acts
12 is very early on in church history. What Greek word is this
translating? Esteros or something?”

If you right click on the word “Easter” in your KJV 1900 (the standard
KJV edition in Logos packages), you’d get . . . nothing. There isn’t a
Strong’s number attached to this word, like there is for pretty much all
the other words you’ve ever looked up.

Hmm . . . That’s odd. What is going on here?

So you try another method of figuring this out: you call up your reverse
interlinear. Still nothing. Sort of:


Do you see that little dot in the highlighted column? That’s called a
“null.” It means that “Easter” isn’t marked as a translation of anything
in the Greek. It’s a bullet: •.

Did the KJV translators just stick “Easter” there randomly?

No: note that there’s another null—another “•” symbol—in the “Surface”
(English text) row. That means there was a Greek word that the KJV
translators left untranslated: pascha.

Aha . . . Now we’re getting somewhere. In fact, “Easter” is a
translation, but the taggers here indicate that pascha in this context
simply couldn’t mean “Easter,” so they were unwilling to tie the two
together!

What you really want, if you want to get to the bottom of this, is to
right click on pascha in the interlinear ribbon and dig in a little
further. Choose “Lemma” on the right, and then “Bible Word Study” on the
left. You get links to dictionary definitions, a list of all the times
the word gets used in the New Testament, and something really helpful
within that list: the senses from the Bible Sense Lexicon.

Notice that the list of uses is divided into three at the bottom:
1.Passover (which is the sense 16 of the 29 times this word appears in
the NT)
2.Passover meal (which is the sense 11 of 29


Whatever the reason the KJV translators chose “Easter,” the Bible Sense
Lexicon is implying that it really isn’t one of the genuine senses of
the word in the New Testament. The word means “passover” (or “passover
meal,” or, twice, “passover lamb”).

The question, then, is whether or not the word in Acts 12 refers to a
Christian celebration or a Jewish one. “Easter” is a Christian word,
“Passover” a Jewish one. The text of Acts 12 makes it sound like it’s
Herod “talking” when the word pascha is used:

“
When [Herod] had seized [Peter], he put him in prison, delivering him
over to four squads of soldiers to guard him, intending after the
[pascha] to bring him out to the people.

What does Easter mean?

If you use the Bible Word Study by clicking on the drop-down arrows,
you’ll see that among the 29 uses of pascha in the New Testament, not
one of them can clearly be used to speak of the Christian holiday of
Easter. All but three of them are from the Gospels, anyway, before the
Resurrection even occurred. The standard Greek-English lexicon says that
“the Easter festival” is a sense of the word pascha that developed only
“in later Christian usage.” It’s very unlikely that “Easter” was a thing
when Luke wrote Acts. That’s why no translations but one use the word.

(Interestingly—language is so cool—the word “Easter,” like the word
“east,” comes from a word that meant “dawn,” which always shows up in
the east. The Resurrection is associated with a new dawning. Greek’s
pascha is directly related to the Hebrew word for “pass over,” the word
used to refer to what the angel of death did in Exodus 12 when he saw
doorposts with lamb’s blood. He “passed over” those homes. Most
languages derive their word for Easter from their word for Passover;
English and German are the big exceptions.)

The Bible Sense Lexicon is a user-friendly way to dig into Greek terms
even if you don’t know Greek. Handle with care, of course. But do
handle. You could get yourself in an awkward situation if you adopt only
one translation (be it the KJV or the NASB or the NIV) and 1) never
check others or 2) never try to access the Greek and Hebrew through
Logos. Does inspired Scripture say “Easter” or not? It’s an important
question.

Prepare your heart for Easter

Now that we cleared that up, here’s an even bigger question: how are you
preparing your heart for Easter? Take a look at our hand-picked
selection of Easter resources—from quick-read booklets to more in-depth
Mobile Education courses.