by Beyond Today Editor
Have you ever considered what a strange holiday Easter is? People pretend that rabbits can lay colorful eggs and then hide them for children to find. Where did such bizarre customs come from? How did they come to be associated with Jesus’...
Holidays or Holy Days: Does It Matter Which Days We Observe?
by United Church of God
Have you ever wondered why eggs and rabbits--the popular hallmarks of Easter--were selected as symbols of fertility?
by Jerold Aust
Millions assume that Easter, one of the world's major religious holidays, is found in the Bible. But is it? Have you ever looked into Easter's origins and customs and compared them with the Bible?
by Beyond Today Editor
What do colored Easter eggs, rabbits and sunrise services have to do with Jesus Christ?
by Good News
The following is from The Trouble With Christmas by Tom Flynn (1993, pp. 19, 37-40, emphasis in original):
by Kathy Sanny
Has our worship of God become more superstition than a practice of honoring the King of Kings and Lord of Lords?
by Good News
An enormous number of traditions we now associate with Christmas have their roots in pre-Christian pagan religious traditions.
Easter: The Rest of the Story
by United Church of God
For millions of professing Christians Easter is the most important day of the calendar year because it commemorates Jesus' resurrection. Easter sunrise services are considered the holiest assembly of the year—a time when Christians...
by Jerold Aust
Easter is the most important holiday for hundreds of millions of believers around the world. Yet thousands of Christians don't observe it. Do they know something that others don't?
by Jerold Aust
Easter is the most important holiday for hundreds of millions of believers around the world. Yet thousands of Christians don’t observe it. Do they know something that others don’t?
by Wilbur Berg
You might be surprised! Discover the truth of the surprising story behind one of the world's most popular religious holidays.
by Dan Dowd
What do its pagan origins imply about Valentine’s Day and other popular holidays?
Holidays or Holy Days: Does It Matter Which Days We Observe?
by United Church of God
Many millions of people believe Jesus Christ rose from the dead on a Sunday morning. But do the Scriptures tell a different story? And how did rabbits and colored eggs come to be associated with Christ’s resurrection?
by Wilbur Berg
What do rabbits and eggs have to do with the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ? Where did the name Easter originate? This holiday isn't even mentioned in the Bible—so where did it really come from? Find out the surprising story behind...
by Scott Ashley
How did so many strange customs come to be associated with the resurrection of Jesus Christ? The answer lies in pagan myths that long preceded His coming to earth!
by Frank Dunkle, David Cobb
Many aspects of traditional Christianity - holidays, practices and doctrines - came not from Christ or the Bible but from ancient pagan religion.
by Beyond Today Editor
Typological, cult-mythical approaches to the Song