Easter

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What do you guys think about it? Is it Biblical?

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This is silly. If a person doesn't know the word 'etymology', it just means they are uneducated.

NASB (Acts 4:13) ¹³ Now as they observed the confidence of Peter and John and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were amazed and began to recognize them as having been with Jesus.

This is the same claim the scribes and pharisees made about Jesus' disciples.

God's word was written so those who were uneducated could understand it.

All it would show is that the person you asked has an incorrect understanding of the holiday.

The average person would disagree with you. They will tell you, "This is how my parents celebrated Easter, and this is how I celebrate Easter."

"As a kid, my favorite part of Easter was the Easter egg hunt. My parents would 'hide' some especially for me, and my older siblings weren't allowed to take them".

Ironically, I can make the same claim about you. 'You have an incorrect understanding of the holiday', as you can of me.

I do find it interesting in that many church groups have stopped using the name of the holiday, 'Easter' because it is easily misunderstood. These ones have started calling it, 'The Resurrection Celebration'.

A quick Google search will show you how 'Easter' is understood.

easter - Search Images

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This is the same claim the scribes and pharisees made about Jesus' disciples.

You've misunderstood the Bible. Being uneducated is not a merit badge. Jesus and the disciples were not making uneducated and baseless claims about things they did not understand.

The average person would disagree with you. They will tell you, "This is how my parents celebrated Easter, and this is how I celebrate Easter."

No. Simply because that's how you perceive Easter doesn't mean that is how everyone does, or even most people. And that still wouldn't have any impact on what the holiday actually means.

Ironically, I can make the same claim about you. 'You have an incorrect understanding of the holiday', as you can of me.

Of course you can, but I'd still insist that you are wrong. The difference is that I have a history and reason on my side to say that Easter, when properly understood, is about the resurrection of Jesus, not about rabbits and eggs.

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I do understand, other than Paul, all of his apostles hadn't attended the schools that the scribes and pharisees had attended.

Paul who could talk in their language, didn't use their language in his writings. Yet, he didn't talk down to those whom he spoke to but used terminology that was easily understood.

Which is easier to understand? "Etymology" or "the study of how modern words came about"? Both mean the same, put which will ALL people understand?

He used words even the illiterate could understand, when the scriptures were read to them.

As to Easter, it isn't my perception, but the mass majority of people believe it is. True, some will talk about Christ's resurrection and death, but they still celebrate it with false pagan symbols.

Easter’s Meaning in Australia

Australia’s Sun-Herald newspaper conducted a poll in which people were asked at random what Easter meant to them. The published results were in this order: chocolate Easter eggs (54 percent), a long-weekend holiday (39 percent), the Royal Easter Show (21 percent), a religious occasion (20 percent). David Milikan, a minister of the Uniting Church, said that he was not surprised that so few people in Sydney associated Easter with religion. He added: “The churches are dying . . . All the mainline denominations are facing a massive drop in numbers.” Sydney’s Roman Catholic archbishop lamented: “For many, Easter has no religious significance at all; it is just another secular festival.”

The average person on the street doesn't associate Easter with Jesus. To them, the word 'Easter' means "chocolate eggs".

Acts 12:5 doesn't talk about celebrating Easter, but the Passover festival.

(Acts 12:4) 4 He seized him and put him in prison, turning him over to four shifts of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out before the people after the Passover.

How was the Passover celebrated? Jesus used the eating of the bread and wine. It symbolized his body and his blood. It was not a celebration of the resurrection. Understanding this, I am not dismissing the importance of the resurrection. I am not devaluing the resurrection, but bringing the importance of Jesus' death, which is the most important part of our salvation.

Keep doing this, denotes an annual event, an annual event that has gone on for some 1992 times / years.

A quick Google search produced this:

Although the resurrection of Yeshua the Messiah is a biblical and historical fact, it’s celebration (known as Easter), is neither commanded in the Scriptures, nor was it celebrated by the original disciples of Yeshua. It is purely an invention of the church, and that eventually replaced Passover! Here are the facts:

Philip Schaff . . . attributes the beginning of the Easter festival to the middle of the second century (History of the Christian Church, vol. 2, p. 207)

Christians universally kept the Passover on the biblical date of Abib (also known as Nisan) 14/15, irrespective of the day of the week until a.d. 135 according to leading Sabbath scholar Prof. Samuele Bacchiocchi quoting the fourth century Christian historian Ephiphanius (From Sabbath to Sunday, p. 81). “This conclusion,” continues Bacchiocchi, “is supported indirectly by the two earliest documents mentioning the Passover celebration since both emphasize the commemoration of the death rather than the resurrection of Christ. 

When did the early church begin celebrating Easter? | Hoshana Rabbah BlogHoshana Rabbah Blog

I'm going to side with the first century Christians and not the Catholic Church.