Easter
Did You Know?!:
The name of the Easter festival is derived from the Greek name, Pascha which is derived from Pesach, the Hebrew festival of Passover.
Easter has always baffled me. Not why we celebrate it, but how it happened. I know God resurrected, but that means that God had to die. God died. Now that is weird to think about. The Being that created everything died. Was there no God for three days? How does that work!?
This God-Man or Man-God…this Thing that is the Supernatural mixed with the natural…this Thing that is the Deity infused with flesh broke the rules of this world. It broke the rules of our world by entering and later broke the rules of our curse-death.
Adam/Eve cursed us all from that bite. You can’t really blame them though, how can you comprehend the impact of something that you have never experienced on an entire race? They didn’t know what death or sin were. But they caused it, and it has been our curse that has separated us from God. But God had a plan, to break this curse. How it happened, like I said, I don’t fully understand. It has some logic to it. To sin means death, and someone has to pay for that sin. So logically, if one who hasn’t done anything wants to atone for that sin, they can. But how can God atone for sin? God is perfect. God can’t die. God can’t have anything to do with sin.
Maybe that’s what broke the curse of death. It tried to claim something it couldn’t. Death had been afflicting humans one by one, so God placed Himself within a human and death couldn’t handle it. Jesus wasn’t an applicable parameter for death to take. It choked. Death broke. God finally upset the curse that satan tricked Adam into placing upon us. Now there is a way out of death, through Jesus, and Him alone.
He broke this curse, this cycle. He has beaten our captor. He has reclaimed us.
God brought us the cure-His one and only Son.
March 24th, 2008 at 1:55 am
Death will never prevail. It has been conquered for sure.
Hope you’re out there making an awesome impact on the people of Tijuana! Build them houses.
I miss you.
March 26th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
the word Easter that we know of actually comes from the Spring Pagan Festival of Ishtar, which was a celebration of the bringing forth of life, procreation (thus bunnys).
You are correct with your Jewish interpretation though.
March 28th, 2008 at 10:01 am
Ah, sounds like some quick research into the heresy of “Patripassionism” is in order (i.e. the heresy that God died on the cross). See related heresies “Monarchianism” and “Monophysitism.”
Cheers.
March 28th, 2008 at 10:02 am
Also, could not the pagan festival of Ishtar really in fact be a celebration of incredibly dumb rodents (thus bunnys)?
Are bunnies rodents, by the way? Anyone know?
March 28th, 2008 at 10:52 am
Apparently bunnies are not rodents, as they belong to the order Lagomorpha and not the order Rodenta.
Paddy, I think you inspired me to write a series of in-depth posts on theories of the atonement. Try to contain your excitement. To begin with, and just for fun, the meaning of the word “atonement”: This is literally a cramming together of the words “at” and “one”, so atonement is the way in which God makes us to be “at one” with him when once we were separated by sin.
Can you tell I’m bored at work today?
April 5th, 2010 at 10:09 am
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April 5th, 2010 at 6:52 pm
Cool thoughts man.