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The Easter Bunny Comes Early This Year -- But Why?
Mar 18, 2008 6:57 PM
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Easter is this Sunday, wonder why?
A happy Easter to those who celebrate the Christian faith and remember to eat those chocolate bunnies head first. It's more humane that way (the screaming from the bunnies is deafening).
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,339051,00.html
The Easter Bunny Comes Early This Year -- But Why?
Easter is Sunday, much earlier than usual this year, and many people are scratching their heads. Isn't it still cold out? Didn't we just celebrate Christmas?
As it turns out, there's a very simple explanation, and it has nothing to do with the church, a vast religious conspiracy or even a complex marketing scheme on the part of candy-makers and egg farmers.
It's the moon.
Easter always comes on the Sunday after the first, or Paschal, full moon following the first day of spring.
Spring arrives on Thursday and the moon will be full on Friday, the earliest Paschal moon since 1913. And that means Easter, the Christian holiday marking the resurrection of Jesus Christ, is this Sunday. It won't come this early again for another 220 or so years.
"It’s a scientific thing," FOX News religion analyst Father Jonathan Morris said. "Easter is always based on the Hebrew tradition of being able to detect a day for the celebration of Passover."
The Christian calendar generally mirrors the Jewish one, and Passover and Easter are usually very close together. But that isn't always the case because of the Christian calendar's strict adherence to the lunar cycle.
Passover follows both the lunar and solar cycles and is celebrated on the 15th day of the first month in the Jewish calendar year. So this year, the eight-day Jewish holiday marking the liberation of Israelites from slavery falls about a month after Easter, beginning on April 19 and going through the 26th.
Morris said Christian traditions leading up to Easter, their holiest holiday — including Ash Wednesday, Lent, Palm Sunday, Holy Week and Good Friday — have gone on as usual this year. It's just that some churchgoers have felt a little blindsided by the timing.
"It doesn't change any of the liturgical celebrations. They're all still present," he said. "But people say, 'Oh my gosh, I had a hard time preparing for this spiritually. It feels crunched after Christmas.'"
Faithful Christians aren't the only ones having to adjust to the fast-approaching Easter holiday. That famous bunny that hides eggs and brings chocolates to children around the world in a symbolic tradition commemorating the start of spring had to be extra organized this year, too.
It could be worse. In 1818, Easter arrived on the earliest possible day: March 22.
Morris doesn't think the timing is so off that people will forget about Easter altogether, however.
"We'll just remind people that now is the time to prepare for these holy days," he said. "They're all still there."
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Re: The Easter Bunny Comes Early This Year -- But Why?
Mar 18, 2008 7:01 PM
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Roman Catholic Moon worship.
AHHHHH HA HA HA LOL LOL
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Re: The Easter Bunny Comes Early This Year -- But Why?
Mar 18, 2008 7:16 PM
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Viagra...maybe ?
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Re: The Easter Bunny Comes Early This Year -- But Why?
Mar 18, 2008 7:41 PM
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> A happy Easter to those who celebrate the Christian
> faith
The biblical Christian Faith (as once delivered to Jerusalem - not bloody Rome) rejects pagan holidays pretending to be Christian.
Christians keep Passover, just like Yeshua and the early Church of God did. We abhor Easter as spiritually immoral and idolatrous, kept by misled folks foolishly putting unclean tradition before the commandments of God.
I side with Polycarp and Polycrates ["Judaizers" to Romanizers] for Passover and against Easter. They both dared to reject Romanizers for the holy commandment of the Lord:
"Acceptance of Easter over Passover did not come without resistance. Two religious leaders of the mid-second century—Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna; and Anicetus, bishop of Rome—debated this very point.
Anicetus argued for Easter while Polycarp, stated Encyclopaedia Britannica, defended observing "the Christian Passover, on the 14th of Nisan, the first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical calendar, regardless of the day of the week" (15th edition, Micropaedia, Vol. VIII, p. 94, "Polycarp").
Polycarp taught observance of the Passover as the early Church had observed it. Eusebius said Polycarp did so because this was the way "he had always observed it with John the disciple of our Lord, and the rest of the apostles, with whom he associated" (Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History, 1995, pp. 210-211). These Christians of the second century were still following the example of [the Jewish] Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 11:1; 1 Peter 2:21; 1 John 2:6) in observing the Passover.
Several decades later another leader, Polycrates, argued with Victor, bishop of Rome, over the same issue. Eusebius wrote of the continuing debate:
"There was a considerable discussion raised about this time, in consequence of a difference of opinion respecting the observance of the paschal [Passover] season. The churches of all Asia, guided by a remoter tradition, supposed that they ought to keep the fourteenth day of the moon for the festival of the Saviour's passover, in which day the Jews were commanded to kill the paschal lamb ...
"The bishops ... of Asia, persevering in observing the custom handed down to them from their fathers, were headed by Polycrates. He, indeed, had also set forth the tradition handed down to them, in a letter which he addressed to Victor and the church of Rome. 'We,' said he, 'therefore, observe the genuine day; neither adding thereto nor taking therefrom. For in Asia great lights have fallen asleep, which shall rise again the day of the Lord's appearing, in which he will come with glory from heaven, and will raise up all the saints ...
"Moreover, John, who rested upon the bosom of our Lord; ... also Polycarp of Smyrna, both bishop and martyr. Thraseas, ... Sagaris, ... Papirius; and Melito ... All these observed the fourteenth day of the passover according to the gospel, deviating in no respect, but following the rule of faith. Moreover, I, Polycrates, who am the least of all of you, according to the tradition of my relatives, some of whom I have followed. For there were seven, my relatives [who were] bishops, and I am the eighth; and my relatives always observed the day when the people (i.e., the Jews) threw away the leaven. [All "Judaizers" to Romanizers]
"I, therefore, brethren, am now sixty-five years in the Lord, who having conferred with the brethren throughout the world, and having studied the whole of the sacred Scriptures, am not at all alarmed at those things with which I am threatened, to intimidate me. For they who are greater than I, have said, 'we ought to obey God rather than men'" (Eusebius, pp. 207-209)."
Easter: Masking a Biblical Truth
Research Notes on the Eastern Churches
http://originofnations.org/HRP_Papers/Research%20Notes%20on%20the%20Eastern%20Churches.pdf
Sabbatarian Groups - A Scattered and Little Flock
http://originofnations.org/HRP_Papers/Scattered%20Flock.pdf
The Church Jesus Built
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Re: The Easter Bunny Comes Early This Year -- But Why?
Mar 18, 2008 7:44 PM
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Roman Moon worship.
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Re: The Easter Bunny Comes Early This Year -- But Why?
Mar 18, 2008 8:31 PM
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Easter was originally celebrated on the Spring Equinox when the Saxon Pagans had sunrise services to honor Easter, the goddess of the Dawn. It was a day of fun when children would go searching for the colored eggs left behind by Easter's favorite pet. Her pet had been a bird, but one day Easter became angry with it and turn it into a bunny, however, the transformation was incomplete because the pet still laid colorful eggs like a bird.
Celebrating Easter would be so much easier if the holiday was returned to the Spring Equinox and celebrated in the traditional Saxon way.
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Re: The Easter Bunny Comes Early This Year -- But Why?
Mar 18, 2008 8:33 PM
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It's early this year because the yellow peeps hatched out in February.
Do I have to tell you people everything?
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Re: The Easter Bunny Comes Early This Year -- But Why?
Mar 18, 2008 9:04 PM
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Re: The Easter Bunny Comes Early This Year -- But Why?
Mar 18, 2008 9:12 PM
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I have a much more important question about Easter:
WHY are Cadbury chocolate eggs kosher for Passover?
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Re: The Easter Bunny Comes Early This Year -- But Why?
Mar 18, 2008 9:17 PM
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Yes it, Easter Sunday, is the 1st Sunday after the 1st full moon after the vernal equinox.
In the interest of accuracy.
>>>>"But that isn't always the case because of the Christian calendar's strict adherence to the lunar cycle."<<<<
The other way around MTT, it is the Hebrew clander that is Lunar, the Christian calnender is solar. The first Easter occured during week of Passover.
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Re: The Easter Bunny Comes Early This Year -- But Why?
Mar 18, 2008 10:04 PM
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> It's early this year because the yellow peeps hatched
> out in February.
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> Do I have to tell you people everything?
LOL But didn't they plan it that way?
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Re: The Easter Bunny Comes Early This Year -- But Why?
Mar 18, 2008 10:05 PM
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> Yes it, Easter Sunday, is the 1st Sunday after the
> 1st full moon after the vernal equinox.
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> In the interest of accuracy.
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> Christian calendar's strict adherence to the lunar
> cycle."<<<<
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> The other way around MTT, it is the Hebrew clander
> that is Lunar, the Christian calnender is solar. The
> first Easter occured during week of Passover.
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Yes but the Catholic church follows the lunar cycle for the worship of Easter. A holdover from their Pagan roots I suppose.
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Re: The Easter Bunny Comes Early This Year -- But Why?
Mar 18, 2008 11:00 PM
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> Yes but the Catholic church follows the lunar cycle
> for the worship of Easter. A holdover from their
> Pagan roots I suppose.
You suppose wrong.
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Re: The Easter Bunny Comes Early This Year -- But Why?
Mar 18, 2008 11:01 PM
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Yes it does, but not like the Hebrew calander does. 1st day of the month is 1st new lunar cycle (waxing part). The Church could have easily followed the Lunar calander as the Jews were not the only ones to have a lunar calander (btw their new year is in september). Easter would have always been some time in April, three days after pass over, but seldom on a Sunday.
To break away from this has more to do with the church wanting the 'new sabbath' as Sunday. For the celebration of the 'day' the event occured as opposed to the 'lunar scape' in the sky. This to establish the new weekly sabbath as to correspond with the day of resurection.
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Re: The Easter Bunny Comes Early This Year -- But Why?
Mar 18, 2008 11:03 PM
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Fin -
> I have a much more important question about Easter:
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> WHY are Cadbury chocolate eggs kosher for Passover?
Special dispensation. Cadburys are Christ's favorite.
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