I always had Easter celebrations and Christmas trees. I also don't relate them to being Christian to my friends or my family. Both are fun little holidays with nothing to do with Christ. I taught my children that from the earliest times, and told them about the same time as they learned Santa was phony, that along with the tooth fairy they were all secular celebrations. There is nothing grim about Sabbath and Saturday worship. The remission of sin and the awesome sacrifice by our Savior is quite serious, but not grim at all. He conquered death, now we just follow his example.
That is not true. It is a Pagan Holiday that we celebrate.
That's ridiculous. Easter Sunday is all about the feast of the Resurrection. That's what WE'RE celebrating when we eat the Easter ham.
Even the fact that it's ham, not lamb. This isn't Passover. We're not Jews under the Law - we're freed from death, and from ritual law, by Jesus' life, death and resurrection.
That's why we eat HAM at Easter, specifically HAM - because it's not kosher, because we're not under the law. Lamb for the Temple right, but ham in celebration of our freedom FROM all of that - our freedom to eat what we please, our freedom from fear of death, BECAUSE OF the Resurrection.
That's what WE'RE celebrating on Easter. If you know folks who are celebrating a pagan holiday, well, I feel sorry for them, because OUR holiday, this feast of the Resurrection, is much better, and more meaningful, than theirs.
