Why Christians Should NOT Celebrate Easter

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL TUESDAY APRIL 15, 2003
(Matthew 28:1-8)

Early on Sunday morning, as the new day was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went out to the tomb.

Suddenly there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and rolled aside the stone and sat on it. His face shone like lightning and his clothing was a brilliant white. The guards shook with fear when they saw him, and fell into a dead faint.

Then the angel spoke to the women. "Don't be frightened!" he said. "I know you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified, but he isn't here! For he has come back to life again, just as he said he would. Come in and see where his body was lying.... And now, go quickly and tell his disciples that he has risen from the dead, and that he is going to Galilee to meet them there. That is my message to them."

The women ran from the tomb, badly frightened, but also filled with joy, and rushed to find the disciples to give them the angel's message.

Why Christians should NOT celebrate Easter. Every year at this time, I get inundated with emails that read like doctrinal dissertations on why a Christian should NOT celebrate Easter. They mostly come from cults, but also from some very legalistic Christian groups. For the record, Passover is a Jewish Feast and NOT a Christian celebration. These groups make arguments about the pagan roots of Easter, the evils of Easter eggs, the satanic nature of the Easter bunny, and many other reasons why a Christian should not celebrate Easter. To those people I have only one thing to say.... YOU HAVE SADLY MISSED THE POINT OF EASTER!

Listen, everyone knows that the word Easter is not in the Bible and originates from the pagan goddess Eostre. Do we stop using the names for the days of the week and months of the year because they also have pagan roots? I have yet to meet anyone that worshipped an Easter egg, only ate them. If you are old enough to be able to read this, you are old enough to know that there is no Easter Bunny. These are simply symbols that the world uses in regard to this holiday. There is only ONE REASON a Christian celebrates Easter, and that is to celebrate the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

Christians SHOULD celebrate the resurrection of Jesus! It is right, and good that we take time each year to remember this blessed event. It is a well-documented historical event chronicled in all four Gospels and supported by the historians of that day. It is easily the GREATEST EVENT IN HUMAN HISTORY! Think about it. God Himself, the Creator of the heavens and earth, came to this earth as a mere man to live with His creation. He came as a baby, born of a virgin in a humble manger in an obscure little town. He would grow up to die on a cross as the perfect sacrifice for the sins of all mankind. Three days after His death, God would raise Him from the dead as a sign to this lost and unbelieving world that He was exactly who He claimed to be... the SON OF GOD!!! His life would literally transform the lives of every man, woman, and child for the rest of human history. THAT is why we celebrate Easter. THAT is why as Christians, we MUST celebrate Easter.

I love you and care about you so much. I realize that most people who say not to celebrate Easter mean well, and are trying to live their lives in a way pleasing and acceptable to God. But they have missed the point of Easter. Easter is about only one thing, celebrating the resurrection of Jesus. It is one of those times of the year that we gather with family and friends, and share our faith in Christ. Easter is also VERY BIBLICAL. All four Gospels gives us the account of the very first Easter. Now, some 2,000 years later, we will set aside time this Sunday to celebrate the day that God raised our Lord from the dead.

I pray today that you will never forget what Easter is really about, and why we celebrate this day. Of course, anything that the world gets involved with becomes perverted. The world has taken this sacred time of the year and turned it into a time of commerce. We must never allow ourselves to get so caught up in the commercialism of the Easter season, to forget what it is about.... a time to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. THAT is what Easter is really about, and THAT is why as Christians we MUST celebrate the greatest event in human history!

In His love and service,
Your friend and brother in Christ,
Bill Keller

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