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Meaning of Easter

As Christmas is celebrating Jesus' birth, Easter is celebrating Jesus' victory over death and mankind's hope for eternal life.

The highlights behind the Easter story include Jesus' execution, His burial and, most importantly, His rising from death.

The account of Jesus' rising from death was recorded in the most authoritative historical records, the Gospel books: Three days after His death, a few women first found His tomb empty. Then Jesus appeared in front of these women and His disciples, talking and eating with them. Out of doubts still, one disciple did not believe Jesus was alive again until he actually touched Jesus' fatal wounds.  In the following forty days, hundreds of people witnessed this Jesus who had returned from death until He ascended to Heaven.

Before His death, Jesus had promised eternal life to those who followed Him. If the story ended at His death, Jesus would have been no more than a religious figure with a finite life span. But the fact the Jesus rose from death demonstrated He has the power over death, and only through Him can people have hope for eternal life.  Jesus said,  "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life" (John 3:16).

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What is the meaning of the "bunny" in the Easter Day?


By: hoornaz jafariyeh - March 01, 2008 - Public
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What testament is the story about Easter under ?


By: Elizabeth Jones - March 06, 2008 - Public
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Where do we get the name Easter?


By: Molly Wares - March 17, 2008 - Public
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How is the date of easter figured out every year


By: Kathryn Glick - March 20, 2008 - Public
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There is no such thing as the word easter found in the bible, The jewish people celebrated passover, The passover was when God told the hebrew people to eat unleavan bread for 3 days, and to kill a lamb cook it and it it on passover night, they were instucted by God to use the blood to cover there doorpost with this blood of the lamb. fro a covering, unto them becuase GOD was going to send the spirit of death upon the fiest born child. When the spiritof death was sent to every house and the house that was not covered by this blood the spirit of death enterd in and killed every malr first bornchild. read this in the book of exodus.Do not be decieved by such pagan days just like christmas if it is not in the word of God flee because many false prophets have come into the world .Why would you want a false teacher teaching you, you have been warned, JESUS NEVER SAID TO CELEBRATE EASTER . so if its not in the word of God than why do such things? Yes we should celebrate jesus but with thanksgiving unto him only not to no eater bunny, last iread my bible the easter bunny didnt die for me on the cross nor did they spit on his face, and he sur didnt carryt aht heavy cross to calvary,so who ARE YOU WORSHIPPING ? bE CARE FUL FOR MANY FALSE PROPHETS HAVE GONE AND ARE IN THE WORLD TODAY ASK GOD FOR TRUTH he sys

 you have not because you ask not.



By: carmen pureco - March 29, 2008 - Public
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