As a child, my mother would dress me up and we had Easter baskets, and even the churches would encourage it. As an adult, I question everything. I have never seen this word in the Bible. Where can I find it there?
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There are several books titled "Babylon Mystery Religion" that detail the history of traditions adopted by the Roman Catholic church.
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Here's the etymology: Old English ēastre ; of Germanic origin and related to German Ostern and east. According to Bede the word is derived from Ēastre, the name of a goddess associated with spring.
The holiday is not explicitly mentioned in the Bible, but it is one of the few holidays on the Christian calendar that's timetable is about right (as in Jesus's Resurrection was about that time of the year). There did used to be various Fertility holidays in that time of the year, but with the spread of Christianity these were gradually replaced.
Easter. “There is no indication of the observance of the Easter festival in the New Testament,” states The Encyclopædia Britannica. How did Easter get started? It is rooted in pagan worship. While this holiday is supposed to commemorate Jesus’ resurrection, the customs associated with the Easter season are not Christian. For instance, concerning the popular “Easter bunny,” The Catholic Encyclopedia says: “The rabbit is a pagan symbol and has always been an emblem of fertility.”
“God’s Love” Book published by Jehovah's Witnesses
Celebrations That Displease God
EASTER—FERTILITY WORSHIP IN DISGUISE
Promoted as a celebration of Christ’s resurrection, Easter is actually rooted in false religion. The name Easter itself has been linked to Eostre, or Ostara, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of the dawn and of spring. And how did eggs and rabbits come to be associated with Easter? Eggs “have been prominent as symbols of new life and resurrection,” says the Encyclopædia Britannica, while the hare and the rabbit have long served as symbols of fertility. Easter, therefore, is really a fertility rite thinly disguised as a celebration of Christ’s resurrection.
Would Jehovah God (Psalms 83:18) condone the use of a filthy fertility rite to commemorate his Son’s resurrection? Never! (2 Corinthians 6:17, 18) In fact, the Scriptures neither command nor authorize the commemorating of Jesus’ resurrection in the first place. To do so in the name of Easter, therefore, is to be doubly disloyal.
Eostre (or Eastre) was also a fertility goddess. According to The Dictionary of Mythology, “she owned a hare in the moon which loved eggs and she was sometimes depicted as having the head of a hare.”
The word comes from the name of the first queen of Babylon: Astarte, Eostre, Ishtar, Easter.