Is Easter Pagan?

[sari83]

(04-21-2011 12:00 AM)Vic Wrote:  One more thought. Sarah you said you use your logic and your analytical mind to determine what's right--which actually means it's not about what the Holy Spirit teaches or provides. However, analyse this.

You have presented information about what you think is the full story of when eggs began to be decorated and hence why all eggs and paint must be evil. However, eggs were eaten from the beginning of time. And since eggs are in your own presentation as part of pagan belief, you had better purge your home of every egg, and every product that has eggs as part of it's makeup, because egyptians for example also made recipes using eggs-including custard. Because otherwise you will be guilty of pagan practices and thought because even to look at an egg must mean you believe the same as the egyptians and others. That also goes for those chickens, lambs, goats, cows, bunnies...any animal, fruit, grass, vegetable, because they are all used by pagans in pagan religious beliefs at some point. And as far as paint, since it was used for pagan eggs, you must eliminate all paint from your home, furniture, walls....oh and if you have have furniture and it set in any way but haphazard, you are likely practicing feng shui, and if you sit or stand in a certain way at a certain time, you are practicing a pagan practice that you need to stop. And if you wear clothes with patterns such as paisley and bright colors, elminate them because you are practicing pagan ways--think India religious beliefs for example. And if you look at a sunrise or sunset and consider it, you are guilty of a pagan religious practice. If you look at the sky or walk in a grove of trees--don't do it, because you are guilty of a pagan practice. If you pray, standing, kneeling, looking up, looking down, bowing, you are guilty of practicing pagan religious practices. Since you are now in the world and everything you do is of the world in some way, you obviously are not of Christ and are hypocritical if you are involved in any of the above, because in Christ, we are free from the world and live to Him [/b][/color][color=#9400D3]

I respect the fact that this is your site, Vic. I don't want to bbe argumentative, but you asked me to analyze this statment, and so I will.

I see where you were going with this analogy. Except, I didn't say eggs and paint were evil. Eggs are a natural occurrance. Dyes which were orginally from fruits and vegetables are also natural occurring substances. Painted eggs are not a natural occurance, though. Pagans were inspired to color eggs as part of their religious practices. Who inspired them?

Sunrises and sunsets are also a beautiful natural occurance. Am I guilty for watching them, absolutely not. However, for example, if it was a pagan practice to spin three times in a circle at dusk in honor of the God Set, (silly analogy, but superstition is silly, isn't it?) Then somewhere down the line I decide I want copy these precise motions, yes that would be pagan. The holy spirit would not inspire someone to repeat practices that were invented from the inspiration of worshipping a false god.