Is Easter Pagan?

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Thank you Rose.

Sarah you said in this post that

(04-15-2011 09:41 AM)sari83 Wrote:  The disciples were commanded to teach the things that Christ revealed to them during His ministry.

There is no mention in the scriptures of new (post-resurrection) commandments or observances.

Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever." (KJV) Heb 13:8

The holy spirit is said to have been sent to teach and bring to remembrance the things Christ has spoken.

Christ revealed His plans to His taught ones.

However, Sarah you are not being Scripturally accurate in what you are saying. Jesus very often said, a new commandment.... and while the Holy Spirit was given and would bring to mind all that Jesus had said and taught them while in person, it also says, that He would gave commandments through the Holy Spirit to them, including knowledge of things to come.

Joh 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

Acts 1:1-9 The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, 2. Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen: 3. To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:

And we know that the apostles taught faithful men, and here Luke and Paul confirm that what was being taught by them and had been recorded in the gospels and epistles was indeed what the apostles taught and believed, because the apostles could not be everywhere. There job was to lay the foundation of doctrine for the Christian church.

Luke 1:1-4 Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, 2. Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word; 3. It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, 4. That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.

2Ti 2:2 And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.

Rather than addressing this further I would direct any comments about new commandments, new law, etc to the following thread

Does Jesus bring a new Torah with the New Covenant? http://www.seekgod.ca/forum/showthread.php?tid=29