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RE: Life & Death Haikus: Use This Day To Praise The Lord (Original Poem)
You're correct but also wrong. The celebration by Christians during the pagan day of Easter is not the celebration of Passover.
You're correct but also wrong. The celebration by Christians during the pagan day of Easter is not the celebration of Passover.
yeah, you assume I say they celebrate passover but they think they are celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ but it is not biblically sound, often times they correlate Passover during this time of Easter due to biblical and translation misinterpretation of the Greek word pascha from the New Testament and the Old Testament. Passover is a separate occurrence that happens earlier before the days of unleavened bread and pagan Easter.
It isn't a misinterpretation at all. God passed over the Israelites and in the same way, passed over the sins of mankind by the sacrifice of Christ. This is the "Paschal Mystery", which is central to the catechism of the church and can be traced to the first century AD. The idea of God's mercy, and death passing over mankind by the blood of the sacrifice, bind the two notions of the Christian Easter celebration of Christ risen. The reason the feast is celebrated on the same period may be historical and cultural, much like the feast of Yuletide and Christmas. The church followed this kind of merging of feasts for various reasons through history. I take the point that the feast is forbidden, but the meaning of the feast has been altered and so the Christians no longer embrace the original idea at all. In the same way, the feast of all saints and Halloween.
I am aware that some people make the argument that the feasts whether with Christian notions or otherwise, ought not to be celebrated on these days, but I do not see a strong enough argument for this, unless the days possess some magical quality, making them forbidden. Granted, in circumstances where there are large numbers of people celebrating the pagan feast, and the Christian feast (in the case of Halloween for instance) I do find it problematic because it does misguide people. That is just my opinion anyway.
All I can say on this topic is we are blessed that this is not a salvation issue, as long as we have faith by grace and understand the gospel, accepting Jesus Christ's sacrifice and having Him as our Lord and Saviour that is the most important thing. God is not a respecter of persons so for Christians who do partake in pagan holidays unknowingly or even knowingly, they shall be judged as we all will be but if they are saved then thank God for that.