Easter Essay

The value of Easter through the eyes of a Mormon and a Foursquare Christian

Easter is amongst the biggest religious holidays celebrated, through a survey about Easter 1,000 adults from across the United States of America that participated in this random telephone study sixty-seven percent saw Easter as a religious holiday, forty-two percent associated it with Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection, only thirteen percent cannot even begin to describe what Easter is or means, while eight percent says Easter means nothing to them at all. This study was conducted in the month March by a group named Barna (Shepson). What Easter is known to be today is not what it was originally known as back in the days. Easter use to be a festival that celebrated an ancient Greek goddess Eostre in which she would be the one to end the cold winters with a warm and sunny spring. This festival usually took place of March 21st, those who took part in celebrating believed that they must satisfy this goddess to guarantee that she will coming back in the years to come. The festivities included extremely extensive meals that are welcoming the common events that come about in this season, flourishing of plants, sweet songs of birds, and most of all the renewal take place within nature. The Council of Nicaea had changed this to be the holiday that’s sole purpose is to celebrate the resurrection of their dear savior Jesus Christ. They had even changed the date, though Easter is not celebrated on the same exact date every year it is celebrated as early as March 22nd and even as late as April 25th but always lands on a Sunday. The entire concept of Easter was changed from being a festival of thanksgiving to a Greek goddess to being the day a God’s son in the flesh...

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...st giving his life for the world and rising back to life again they do believe that this event happened but for the reason that it secures and washes away the sins of the past, having a personal relationship with God means you must do as Moses did and live a life according to commandments and God’s laws, by doing good deeds they are closer to the kingdom of heaven for doing good even in the midst of evil, that one day they too will raise from the dead just as Jesus had but this time for the day of judgment from God, and lastly take a huge part it sharing their own testimonies of faith because God has called them to do so. Thus this shows you why the congregation of foursquare Christians take part in the joyous celebration of the glorious day that their savior has risen from the dead while Mormons see this as just another day of church and gathering for fellowship.