Easter, why I've learned to love it

When I was little, Easter was my least favorite holiday. I mean sure I got the Easter basket complete with a chocolate bunny, Starburst jelly beans, fake grass, and a few plastic eggs...but that was it! Christmas was my favorite because as a child I was a materialistic whore... I mean how could I not get overly excited about getting a Huffy bicycle, an Easy Bake Oven, Where's Waldo Books, and Super Mario Brothers 3?

My like for Easter didn't really change until a few years ago, when I looked beyond the Easter bunny and figured out the true significance of this holiday. As I'm sure you all know Easter has nothing to do with bunnies or eggs. Essentially, the ancient Roman Catholic Church , in order to make Christianity more attractive to non-Christians, mixed the celebration of Jesus' resurrection with a celebration that involved spring fertility rituals. These spring fertility rituals are the source of the egg and bunny traditions. The true, biblical purpose of Easter is to celebrate the resurrection of Christ that occurred three days after His crucifixion [and because of Jesus' death/resurrection, I have been given and have chosen to accept the free gift of eternal life and I can be 100% sure that when I die, I will be going to heaven to spend eternity with the God of this universe, yippee! (John 1:12 John 3:16, Ephesians 2:8-9) ] For proof of the death/resurrection go here . This single event is literally the linchpin of Christianity. It is a fairly well-established fact that Jesus Christ was publicly executed in Judea in the 1st Century A.D., under Pontius Pilate, by means of crucifixion, at the Jewish Sanhedrin. However, after this point, not everyone believes the same thing. Christians believe Jesus died and then on the third day rose again (which explains why Mary and others found Jesus's tomb empty). While others believe he died and someone hid his body even though there were guards watching it the whole time making this theory implausible, while others believe in a Swoon Theory- the belief that Jesus didn’t really die at His crucifixion, but was merely unconscious when He was laid in the tomb and there He resuscitated.... I'm sorry but this theory is bogus. Read here as to why. So yea, what I'm saying is you can't just believe Jesus is God but instead believe that God spared Jesus the pain of death and took him straight to heaven (Islam religion). You absolutely must believe that Christ was nailed to a cross, suffered, died and was buried, and on the third day rose again, otherwise the Christian religion is a complete JOKE. If you don't believe me, just hear what Paul says in 1 Corinthians:15 when he explains in detail the resurrection of Christ. Paul was speaking to those in Corinth who didn't believe in the resurrection of the dead and Paul gives 6 disastrous consequences if there was no resurrection:
1) preaching Christ would be senseless (v. 14);
2) faith in Christ would be useless (v. 14);
3) all the witnesses and preachers of the resurrection would be liars (v. 15);
4) no one would be redeemed from sin (v. 17);
5) all former believers would have perished (v.18); and
6) Christians would be the most pitiable people on the earth (v. 19).
But Christ indeed has risen from the dead and “has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen sleep” (v. 20), assuring that we will follow Him in resurrection.

TRANSLATION: If Christ didn't die on the cross for our sins and resurrect after 3 days, telling people about Christ would be pointless, faith would be useless, all of the eyewitness testimonies of the resurrection must have lied, no one would be able to have eternal life, i.e. go to heaven because we would not be redeemed from sin =( , all believers before Christ wouldn't have eternal life, and Christians would be people that others would pity because of their pathetic belief in something that was an absolute farce.

Furthermore, the death and resurrection
1.)Proves Christ is the Son of God
-Romans 1:4 and who through the Spirit of holiness was declared with power to be the Son of God by his resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord.
2.) Offers Eternal Life to Anyone that Believes Jesus is God bc Jesus Bore ALL sins!
-Hebrews 9:22 In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
-Hebrews 9:27-28 Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.
-Issiah 53:5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.

Hopefully, you don't feel like the bunny in the picture who is all confused, but if you do please visit www.gotquestions.org/easter.html