3475 — Easter and Its Authority
By Editor
Please explain the authority or Bible proof for what are called Easter services; and where in the Bible can we find the word "Easter" outside of Acts 12:4, or anything that would lead to such elaborate services? D. A. E. There is absolutely no Bible authority for Easter services. The origin of the feast of Easter is purely pagan. The term "Easter" or "Eostre" is the name of an Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring. Her worship was nature-worship, neither pure nor elevating. It is to this generation an inheritance of early apostasy. The word is found in no place in the Bible save Acts 12:4, and there it ought to be "Passover," as it is in the Revised Versions, and nearly all others. It is well to celebrate the resurrection of our Lord; but the truest way, the best service, is the living of the life of Christ — the new resurrection life — every day. Such a celebration would glorify God and convert souls. The substitute largely brings glory to men.