Is Easter Pagan?

[Rose of Shushan]

Quote:Passover was actually a "shadow" of Christ's death and resurrection. He became the Lamb of God through his sacrifice, as he was the unleavened bread because he was without sin. Therefore, we are redeemed through his blood, as God "passes over" our sin and punishment (death) to eternal life, just as he passed over the Israelites by the blood on their doorposts, thereby saving them from death. He was the first resurrected to eternal life thereby fulfilling the Feast of First Fruits as well. He became our blood sacrifice, therefore, he changed that part of ALL the Feasts. The blood sacrifice of innocent animals is no longer needed! Think about it, why would God tell them they needed to bring sacrifices to the temple during the Feasts he told them to keep for all generations, when he knew the temple would be torn down? Because, thanks to Christ, we no longer need sacrifices as he became our only needed sacrifice and because of the gift of the Holy Spirit (fulfilled at the Feast of Pentecost) we are now God's temple!

I actually agree with all that.And what you pasted after however then I don't understand why you wrote the following

Quote:Not only is there a connection between Christ and the Passover, as he fulfilled it totally, but Passover is commanded and instituted by God as a forever statute for Israel. (not just the Jews which at the time of the exodus were PART of Israel as there were still 12 tribes, by Jesus' time the 10 tribes had been gone a long time and mostly Jews were left(the Levites were lumped in with the Jews). Gentile believers in Jesus are made part of Israel, as Paul explains in Romans 11:17-24. Since we as Gentile believers are part of Israel, I take Passover as still a command we should keep as Christ himself kept it and instituted the celebration of his resurrection in the memory of himself through the bread and wine (the Christian's communion) at the Passover Seder. There is no connection between Easter (its true meaning, not what the church turned it around to be) and Christ, and you will not find God does not command us to now keep Easter instead of Passover!

What Christ instituted was not the seder done by jews today.At the time of Christ the Temple stood and though we don't know for sure what Christ and the dsiciples did we know that Israelites were required to obtain a lamb on the tenth of nisan and on the fourth day have it killed .We cannot keep Passover today that way redsleigh.
Paul talks of keeping Passover metaphorically where he says

1Co 5:7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
1Co 5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Paul was speaking to the church at Corinth and wasn't speaking of Passover there as the event that involved the slaughter of lambs at the Temple but rather referring to Christ as the Paschal lamb and to the matzah as representative of sincerity and truth.