What is Easter about?? I am Muslim, and i want to know, plz good answers!!?
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Christians believe that, 3 days after he was crucified, Jesus rose from the grave to sit by God's side.  Easter is the celebration of this resurrection.\n\n"Pagan" generally refers to rites and rituals that were performed by ancient tribes, before modern religions were established.  Some people believe that "Pagan" and "Satanic" mean the same thing.  However, "Pagan" rituals were generally being done for thousands of years before "Satanism" came to be.  In addition, most modern religious rituals have basis in Paganism.  Much of this is because the early adopters of these religions were Pagans before they adopted the new religion, and it was a way to make the new holidays more acceptable to them.
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Easter comes from a pagan celebration for the coming of spring.(early christians adopted the celebration so more pagans would become christian).  the rabbit symbolized fertility along with eggs.  I have no clue where the whole chocolate thing came from.
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Good Friday is the day that Jesus died so we celebrate it in honoring of his death. Here are some websites where you can read a little more about it.\nhttp://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry/GoodFrid\nhttp://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06643a.htm\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday
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Sorry for butting in here I know the question was directed at Christians, I am not a religious person of any description, but just out of interest I have been reading the replies from the 'Christians'! Although I am not a Christian that doesn't mean that I know nothing about what being a Christian means! And most of the answers you have picked up here are complete rubbish.\nSo don't base your final assessment on the replies you have here .\nFirstly Allah is the title given to God by Muslims, they believe there is only one God.\nGod is the title applied by Christians they also believe there is only one God.\nJesus is believed in by Muslims as a great prophet, but not as the Son of God.\nJesus is believed in as God (as part of their Holy Trinity bit)by the Christians.\nAnd if any Christian has answered this question of yours differently then they are NOT Christians.\nBut deep down I think you know all this don't you? what are you up to??
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Neither Christmas nor Easter have any connection with Christianity. So-called "Christmas" celebrates the pagan Saturnalia and the appropriately-named "Easter" celebrates the pagan goddess Eostre.\n\nJesus was not even born in December. Nearly all so-called Christmas customs dishonor Christ.\n\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/19981215/article_02.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/20001215/\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/20041215/article_01.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/19981215/\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/rq/article_11.htm\n\nChristendom adopts "Easter" from pagan worship of the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eostre (or Oestre). Most Easter traditions merely repackage pagan fertility festivals and concentrate on eating, decorating, and frivolity. Christ certainly never wanted that.\n\nBy contrast, it's tragic that the one holiday Christ actually *DID* ask Christians to commemorate is entirely ignored by almost all of Christendom. It is, of course, the Memorial of Christ's death, sometimes called "the Last Supper" or "the Lord's Evening Meal".\n\n(1 Corinthians 11:23-25, NWT) The Lord Jesus in the night in which he was going to be handed over took a loaf... Keep doing this in remembrance of me.” 25 He did likewise respecting the cup.. Keep doing this... in remembrance of me.” \n\n(1 Cor 11:24, 25, NEB) "Do this as a memorial of me.” \n\n\nChrist Jesus himself personally celebrated and explained the significance of that Last Supper to his followers (see Matthew 26:26-29). Christians who commemorate the Last Supper have done so on the same Jewish calendar date as Jesus did, Nisan 14, which generally falls between late March and mid-April. Interestingly, Christians in the centuries immediately after Christ's impalement were sometimes called "Quartodecimans" which literally mean "Fourteen-ers", because the early Christians were well-known for this true holy day.\n\nHow would Jesus feel to learn that the holiday he commanded was widely ignored, while his so-called followers chose to celebrate a pagan false god and their own traditions of men? We don't need to wonder.\n\n(Matthew 15:6-9) You have made the word of God invalid because of your tradition. 7 You hypocrites, Isaiah aptly prophesied about you when he said, 8 ‘This people honors me with their lips, yet their heart is far removed from me. 9 It is in vain that they keep worshiping me, because they teach commands of men as doctrines.’”\n\nLearn more:\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/lmn/article_08.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/rq/article_11.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/20041215/article_02.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/20011115/article_02.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/20050101a/\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/jt/
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Here is some really good information. It was all to long to post here so I thought I would just give you the links and let you read for yourself. It will explain about Jesus(peace be upon him) and exactly how he is seen in Islam from the Quran and Sunnah(sayins of the Prophet peace be upon Him). I really hope this helps.\n\nhttp://www.islam-qa.com/index.php?ref=502&ln=eng&txt=jesus\n\nhttp://www.islam-qa.com/index.php?ref=43148&ln=eng\n\nhttp://www.islam-qa.com/index.php?ref=10277&ln=eng\n\nhttp://www.islam-qa.com/index.php?ref=9514&ln=eng\n\nhttp://www.islam-qa.com/index.php?ref=502&ln=eng
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Oh, get a life. Easter should be a celebration, now a wake. I think it's just fine to make jokes about it ... on the other hand, there are those people who delight in ridiculing what people believe, and it's never alright to step on someone's beliefs. I don't think that's what's happening here, tho.\n\nSo go get yourself some communion wine and read the joke again, and I think you'll see that it's pretty funny after all!
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no, Good Friday is not a national holiday, it is a religious holiday. It reflects upon the day that Chirst was crucified on the cross, and that 3 days later (Easter) He rose again.
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Mostly the same way becuase everyone who celebrates easter in celebrating a christian holiday.  The only difference could be is food.  But most people do about the same thing.  Boil eggs, color them, eat the, eat candy, get new clothes, dress up easter sunday, go to church, be with the family.
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it was a sunday, but I don't know if it was easter
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easter lands on a different day each year because it's the 1st sunday after the 1st full moon after the first day of spring.  since a full moon doesn't occur the same day each year, easter sunday will be a floating hoilday
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:{\nThat “Jesus did not die on the cross”  is an Islamic teaching. It will be part of the great delusion in the last days during the tribulation.\nISA, (the Islamic Jesus)(and the Christian false prophet) will come and declare that he is Jesus and that he is not the son of God and did not die on the cross. Islam even predicts that he will break the cross and that he will kill the leader and protector of the forces that believe that Jesus is the Son of God.\n\nHe will also tell people to believe in the Islamic Messiah, Mahdi (The Christian anti-Christ)\n\nAnyway that's how I interperet the Islamic Hadifs and the Bible  Just my opinion
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Eastern is pointing something near the east. for example, he came from the eastern part of the isalnd. Easter is the day we celebrate the rising of Jesus from death during lenten season.\n\nIf ur reffering to nations on the east, try "oriental".
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ok im muslim ..and islam asked us believe in Jesus ,Peace Be Upon Him , \n\nyes we believe in him as prophet ... as some christian do ... but what ever he was ... he was chosen by GOD to do all the best for the human .. and he did . and we muslims we respect him so much and what he call for . and respect all ppl whom say he is God ... \n\nand for GOD ... for sure ...just look around you and u will know there is GOD .\n\nGOD bless you
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Easter is a holiday celebrating the resurrection of Christ..
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Before I answer the question I would just like to tip my hat to Mommyofive. Bravo, you know what you believe and why you believe it. You don't see that much these days ammong christians or even ammong my fellow pagans. \n\nTo answer your question Easter (also called oster or Ishtar) was a pagan firtility holiday that had practical uses in the region that it was observed. Keeping the pagan beliefs while changing the emphasis helped to bolster the early church as well as preventing a disruption of the traditions. Personally though, I would have put Xmass there as Jesus was born in Feb or March rather than the middle of winter.
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not sure but it seems like it's something good. can you clear your question about what u meant by "description about God" ?\n\nGod talks about christians many time in the Quran, those are two of them:\n\n".......and you will find the nearest in love to the believers (Muslims) those who say: "We are Christians." That is because amongst them are priests and monks, and they are not proud." Quran 5:82\n\n"[27] Then, We sent after them Our Messengers, and We sent 'Iesa (Jesus) - son of Maryam (Mary), and gave him the Injeel (Gospel). And We ordained in the hearts of those who followed him compassion and mercy. But the Monasticism which they invented for themselves, We did not prescribe for them, ......" Quran 57:27