Is Easter Pagan?

[sari83]

(05-05-2011 06:54 PM)Vic Wrote:  

(05-05-2011 06:16 PM)sari83 Wrote:  

(05-05-2011 04:10 PM)Vic Wrote:  1Co 8:4 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
1Co 8:5 For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)
1Co 8:6 But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
1Co 8:7 Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled. [/color]

Later, Paul says one cannot partake in that which is sacrificed unto an idol because what the gentiles sacrifice unto idols are offerings to demons.

1 Cor 10:17-21
For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread. Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar? What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing? But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.
(KJV)

Sarah, what gentiles have you seen sacrificing eggs to a bunny? Or bunnies to an egg? or chocolate?

What gentiles have you seen sacrificing bunnies to their bunny god?

What Christians have you seen sacrificing a bunny or an egg or piece of chocolate to any god? including God?

Christians are not involved in sacrificing to bunnies or non existant gods. I have never seen a sacrificial altar with bunny blood or chocolate blood or colored eggs running onto the floor after said sacrifice in any church. Nor is there documentation of such.

The Gentiles Paul was speaking about were the Greeks of Corinth who had their plethora of false gods and were actively worshipping and sacrificing to them--all around the new Christians. Paul was warning the new believers to not be doing those things that they had done before, that now they were separate and to do that worship and sacrifice was to worship and sacrifice to devils---because the greeks believed they were real.

Please show me the Christians who are sitting with those types of people and sacrificing to their false/non existant gods and eating those sacrifices to false gods. Please show me the easter bunny altar downtown in any store, anywhere, where sacrificing and eating of those same sacrifices in any religious ceremony is taking place... and then show me the Christians doing it with them...

You applied 1 Cor 8:4-7 to the subject matter, and I think the 1 Cor. 10:17-21 passage was completely relevent to the verses you posted.