03/30/13 THEY WERE NOT CONFUSED OR DECEIVED
None of Christs followers in the Bible ever said, "Happy Easter."
They celebrated The Lamb of God (Who died to take away the sins of the world); they did not celebrate a rabbit (a pagan symbol of fertility).
They celebrated The Cross (stained with the blood of atonement); they did not celebrate colored eggs (a pagan symbol of fertility).
They celebrated Jesus (physically raised from the dead); they did not celebrate Ishtar (the pagan fertility goddess).
They did not confuse the children with pagan ideas or blur the work of Christ with pagan symbolism.
It is not a myth, it is not a religious distinctive.
It is the whole reason for our hope in eternal life.
HE IS RISEN.
