Did you paint some Easter Eggs ?

Easter is upon us. 

A festival which takes its name from the Teutonic Goddess „Estre“.

In one week, on Sunday the 5^th day of April, 2015, the movable feast of Easter will be celebrated.

On the preceding Friday, Good Friday, all Christians will commemorate Christ's death on the cross, and three days later it will be a celebration of Christ's resurrection from the dead.

Easter is, by all accounts, the most important date on the christian calender. It has even been said, that Christmas, celebrating Christ's birth, is but a preparation for Easter.

Or, one could debate, that the fact of his resurrection is more important than the fact of his birth.

According to christian teaching Jesus Christ had to die on the cross in order that the sins of mankind might be forgiven.

If you now shake your head and ask:

„How's that again ? Where is the connection ?“ 

you are not alone. Even learned clergy struggle with an answer to this conundrum.

Ask your priest, your clergy man, your theologian this simple question:

„Why did Jesus, the Man, have to die on the cross and how does his death free us from sin,“ and the answers you receive will be so convoluted and nonsensical that you wonder how such utter non-sequiturs could remain a pillar of a faith for so long.

Fourty days after his resurrection comes Christ's ascension into heaven: „So then, after the Lord Jesus had spoken to them ( the disciples ) he was received up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.“

Let me take you back to 'John 3:16'

„For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.“

What or Who did the Lord sacrifice?

Not much, because his son rose from the dead, three days after his death and 40 days later returned, apparently none the worse for wear, to heaven, where he sat down in the place of honour, on the right side of God.

In any event, it seems to me that we anthropomorphize God to a ridiculous degree. We ascribe to him the human emotions of „love, hate, sorrow, regret,“ and who knows what else, when, if he exists at all, he knows only justice: „When we cut ourselves, we bleed.“

Now it seems certain that God knew well that he would get his son back after three days absence and would welcome him home after 40 days. So what's the big sacrifice ?

If I have something which I really love and I lend it to you with the absolute certain knowledge to get it back after 3 days or, at the latest, after 40 days, what's the big sacrifice ?

So, it seems truly wonderful and marvellous that many people celebrate and are happy about the alleged resurrection, and ascension. 

Believing it in all its unbelievability, however, is more than I can do.

Bertstravels, however

handpainted a lot of easter eggs.

The red  eggs are, of course, store-bought. 

The others are my works of art