Easter and Pagan Things #easter #apologetics

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So you’ve got pagan Mesopotamian iconography reflected in the cherubim, which is an Akkadian term, and you’ve got the idea of an Egyptian palanquin reflected in the ark of the covenant. And God is not only okay with these things, he commanded it that way. How is this possible in light of God’s prohibition against idolatry in Exodus 20?

It’s because the Israelites weren’t bowing down to the cherubim. They weren’t worshiping the ark of the covenant. What we worship is what we set our hearts and minds on. Worship requires intent. And those things weren’t the object of worship for the Israelites. They were the beautiful cultural ornamentation that surrounded the worship of the God of Israel. God took those pagan elements, which were religious symbols in the wider culture in which the Israelites lived, and He pointed them toward Himself. He refashioned them into sacred objects used in the worship of Yahweh.

In the same way, Christians today can safely appropriate the cultural ornamentation of Easter baskets and painted eggs in our observance of the holiday of Easter. Because we aren’t bowing down to these things and worshiping them. By the way, the same is true of trees and wreaths during Christmas. These aren’t objects of worship, they’re cultural decorations.
God can use anything to bring glory to Himself. It’s not about names, or baskets of candy, or bunnies, or other “things,” it’s about our hearts. What we set our hearts and minds on is what we worship. And on Easter, Christians celebrate and worship Jesus.

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