Question
Are we supposed to celebrate Easter?
Response
As Paul sets forth for example in Galatians 4:1-11 and Colossians 2:8-17ff, since God is dealing with us in this dispensation as “sons” and not “children”; and since “the elements of the world” like observing a calendar of holydays are now “weak and beggarly elements”; and moreover since we are “dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world”; then “observing days, and months, and times, and years,” or letting any man judge us “in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days” is contrary to who God has made us to be “in Christ.” And this includes any holyday; whether legitimate because it comes from Israel’s program, or whether it is of pagan origin or of misguided Christian invention and tradition. What we as “sons” ought to “celebrate,” to use the word, is who God has made us to be “in Christ” by the riches of His grace. And this does not require, nor does it employ, the use of any “rudiments” or “elements of the world.” They are inconsistent with it, and hence inappropriate. They are not “after Christ.” Rather who God has made us to be “in Christ” we should “celebrate” daily, so to speak, by living consistent with the glory of it on a day-by-day basis.
Keith Blades
Enjoy The Bible Ministries
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