Isn't Easter a 'tradition of men'

[JohnPaul]

As far as I know, there is no statement in the Bible that we are to celebrate the resurrection of our Lord. Certainly the word ‘Easter’ is nowhere present.

So aren’t sola-scriptura adherents contradicting themselves by celebrating Easter?

 

[Eileen_T]

Sola Scriptura is not logical so why should we expect adherents to use logic.

I read someone complaining because the Catholics and Orthodox have built churches over the sacred places in the Holy Land. How grasping of us! Yet they still can’t acknowledge that we are the ones who have been there since the beginning, not Protestants.

 

[gus]

As far as I know, there is no statement in the Bible that we are to celebrate the resurrection of our Lord. Certainly the word ‘Easter’ is nowhere present.

So aren’t sola-scriptura adherents contradicting themselves by celebrating Easter?

I’m certainly not an advocate of Sola Scriptura. By I’m of Italian descent. In the Romance Languges Easter Is Pasqua,
or Passover. which certainly is in the bible.Jesus is our perfect Pascal lamb.

 

[Chancellare]

I’m certainly not an advocate of Sola Scriptura. By I’m of Italian descent. In the Romance Languges Easter Is Pasqua,
or Passover. which certainly is in the bible.Jesus is our perfect Pascal lamb.

Thanks for reminding us of the Romance languages/latin translation for Easter.
Because we have the English translations, there are many things the SS believers (erroneously) say are not in the Bible.

 

[Lev23]

Thanks for reminding us of the Romance languages/latin translation for Easter.
Because we have the English translations, there are many things the SS believers (erroneously) say are not in the Bible.

Anyone can spin any explanation they want and come up with the name of the day as “Easter”.

But the day Jesus was resurrected was on the Feast of Firstfruits(Levitcus 23:9-14), the 3rd of 7 feasts God gave to the chosen people. God said this feast was to be on “the morrow after athe sabbath,” or Sunday. Since the Feast of Unleavened Bread was seven days long, one of those days would be a Sunday and that Sunday would be Firstfruits each year. Jesus was crucifed on Passover and buried on Unleavened Bread. These feasts God appointed were shadows of things that were to come, to be found in Christ(Col.2:16).

In 1Cor.15:22-23, Paul makes it understood the point of the feast, the resurrection of the Lord.
For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. But each in his own turn: CHRIST, THE FIRSTFRUITS; then, when he comes, those who belong to him."

So outside of the NKJ translation, you’ll be hard pressed to find “Easter”. But every translation you will find the correct name of the day Jesus was resurrected on, Firstfruits.

100% scriptural.

 

[Lev23]

As far as I know, there is no statement in the Bible that we are to celebrate the resurrection of our Lord. Certainly the word ‘Easter’ is nowhere present.

So aren’t sola-scriptura adherents contradicting themselves by celebrating Easter?

Nope.

 

[Lev23]

Sola Scriptura is not logical so why should we expect adherents to use logic.

I read someone complaining because the Catholics and Orthodox have built churches over the sacred places in the Holy Land. How grasping of us! Yet they still can’t acknowledge that we are the ones who have been there since the beginning, not Protestants.

Here’s some logic. Since the all of the first believers in Christ were Jewish, one can logically say they celebrated at least the first 4 feasts(Passover/Unleavened Bread/Firstfruits/Pentecost) on the days God appointed them with the understanding Jesus fulfilled the first 3 and the Holy Spirit came upon the church at Pentecost(Weeks). Of course believers in Messiah are not responsible to keep these feasts, but remember, those first believers were all Jews. Knowledge of Messiah in these feasts could be such a witness to their unbelieving Jewish bretheren by celebrating them.

So any bible readers out there that practice-“to the jew first,…” remember the 7 feasts of Israel.

 

[SueKrum]

man, how did I miss this thread? I was looking for something like it and did not see it, so I started a thread here
forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=144996

If any of you on here can answer my questions about Easter, I would appriciate it.

Lev23, can you explain why we no longer celebrat “first fruits” on the same day it was celebrated back in the time of Christ? (you can see in my thread how the we’ve gone from a solar calander, to a lunar one) Also, how did the name change to Easter? I guess that’s only in English, but that appears to be the only language the poeple I argue with care about.

I’m sorry for posting on two threads, I honestly did not see this one earlier.