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Easter Is Not Biblical - It Is A Superstitious Pagan and Roman Catholic Holy Day (Free MP3s, Books, etc.)


Scroll down for free Reformation resources (MP3s, books, etc.) against Pagan and Roman Catholic holy days like Easter.

A search for the word "Easter", using the Master Search index on the Puritan Hard Drive, brings up 7,325 results in 662 documents, all of which gives you the search term in the context of one line (under each book title in which they are found) -- and when you click on this line the Puritan Hard Drive opens the correct book, to the correct page, and highlights your search term. There are also 112 Reformed resources under the category "Holy Days (Lord's Day, Christmas, Easter, etc.)" and 25 resources with the word "Easter" in the title on the Puritan Hard Drive.

"But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men."

- Matthew 15:9

"And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them."

- Ephesians 5:11

"For God is not worshiped of us, but when it is his will to accept our worship: and it is not his will to accept our worship, but when it is according to his will."

- William Perkins (Puritan), A Golden Chain, or the Description of Theology

"Our Easter day, our Ascension day, our Whitsuntide is every Lord's day."

- Richard Greenham, Works, p. 421

"It is commonly objected, that we may as well keep a day for the nativity, as for the resurrection of Christ. We have answered already, that Christ's Day, or the Lord's Day, is the day appointed for remembrance of his nativity, and all his actions and benefits, as well as for the resurrection."

- David Calderwood (Covenanter), emphases added

"All human inventions which are set up to corrupt the simple purity of the Word of God, and to undo the worship which he demands and approves, are true sacrileges, in which the Christian man cannot participate without blaspheming God, and trampling his honour underfoot."

- John Calvin, emphases added

"Easter is the principal feast of the ecclesiastical year. (Pope - ed.) Leo I (Sermo xlvii in Exodum) calls it the greatest feast (festum festorum), and says that Christmas is celebrated only in preparation for Easter. It is the centre of the greater part of the ecclesiastical year. ... The first Vespers of Easter are connected now with the Mass of Holy Saturday. ... To have a correct idea of the Easter celebration and its Masses, we must remember that it was intimately connected with the solemn rite of baptism. The preparatory liturgical acts commenced on the eve and were continued during the night. When the number of persons to be baptized was great, the sacramental ceremonies and the Easter celebration were united."

- The Catholic Encyclopedia, "Easter" Article, emphases added

"We are the Easter people."

- Pope John Paul II

"Therefore Easter is not simply one feast among others, but the "Feast of feasts," the "Solemnity of solemnities," just as the Eucharist is the "Sacrament of sacraments" (the Great Sacrament)."

- Catechism of the Roman Catholic Church, Second Edition, #1169, emphases added

"In 1899, the General Assembly of the PCUS was overtured to give a 'pronounced and explicit deliverance' against the recognition of 'Christmas and Easter as religious days.' Even at this late date, the answer came back in a solid manner: 'There is no warrant in Scripture for the observance of Christmas and Easter as holydays, rather the contrary (see Gal. 4:9-11; Col. 2:16-21), and such observance is contrary to the principles of the Reformed faith, conducive to will-worship, and not in harmony with the simplicity of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.'"

-  Kevin Reed, Christmas: An Historical Survey Regarding Its Origins and Opposition to It (Free Online Book), emphases added

"When the Puritans came to power in England, attention was repeatedly given to Christmas. In 1644, December 25 fell upon a day previously scheduled for a monthly fast. The Parliament debated the issue and resolved to observe the day with fasting and prayer, especially due to the present circumstances of the nation. In June 1647, Parliament passed legislation abolishing Christmas and other holidays: 'Forasmuch as the feast of the nativity of Christ, Easter, Whitsuntide, and other festivals, commonly called holy-days, have been heretofore superstitiously used and observed; be it ordained, that the said feasts, and all other festivals, commonly called holy-days, be no longer observed as festivals; any law, statute, custom, constitution, or canon, to the contrary in anywise not withstanding.'"

-  Kevin Reed, Christmas: An Historical Survey Regarding Its Origins and Opposition to It (Free Online Book), emphases added

FREE REFORMATION RESOURCES (MP3s, BOOKS, etc.) AGAINST PAGAN AND ROMAN CATHOLIC HOLY DAYS LIKE EASTER

Why No Christmas Or Easter? by David Silversides (Web, Article)

Easter: The Devil's Holiday by Dr. C. Matthew McMahon (Web, Article)

"Easter has little to do with real Christianity. Does that surprise you? It should not. For example, Easter was not popular with the Puritans or the Pilgrim settlers in America. Neither Puritans or Pilgrims had use for ceremonies associated with religious festivals invented in either pagan history, or reinvented by Roman Catholicism. In actuality, here in the America's only after the bloodshed Civil War did Easter "begin again" to be accepted." Read More.

Easter: A Satanic, Demonic, Pagan, Roman Catholic Holy Day Which God Abhors (A Violation of the Second and Fourth Commandments) by Dr. C. Matthew McMahon (Free MP3, 26 minutes)



Easter, Lent, Christmas, And The Cross (Pagan/Roman Catholic/Antichrist Holy Days [Holidays] In The Church, Family, And Society) by Ergatees (Free MP3)



HISTORY OF HOLY DAYS (CHRISTMAS, EASTER, CHRISTIAN SABBATH, JEWS, etc.), IDOLATRY, ICONOCLASM, etc. by Dr. Steven Dilday (SWRB blog listing 7 free MP3s)

Much needed preaching in our day, when many Protestants worship more like Roman Catholics than like the best Reformers. This sermon contains much important Scriptural and historical information. On this topic George Gillespie (a Scottish Covenanter and Westminster Divine), in his classic work, A Dispute Against the English Popish Ceremonies Obtruded Upon the Church of Scotland, writes, "Forasmuch then, as kneeling before the consecrated bread, the sign of the cross, surplice, festival days (Christmas, Easter, etc.-ed.), bishopping, bowing to the altar, administration of the sacraments in private places, etc., are the wares of Rome, the baggage of Babylon, the trinkets of the whore, the badges of Popery, the ensigns of Christ's enemies and the very trophies of Antichrist: we cannot conform, communicate, and symbolize with the idolatrous Papists, in the use of the same, without making ourselves idolaters by participation."

A Dispute Against the English Popish Ceremonies Obtruded Upon the Church of Scotland by George Gillespie (Digital Download PDF, also on the Puritan Hard Drive)

Remember the Sabbath Day 5/5 (On Christmas, Easter And Other Pagan And Roman Catholic/Papal Antichrist Holy Days) - Flee Idolatry! by Greg Price (Free MP3)

Defends the classic Puritan, Reformed, Westminster Confession position on the Sabbath and man instituted "holy days" (i.e. holy days not instituted by God in Scripture). The section on Christ-mass, Easter and other holy days invented by man (and "the man of sin", the Papacy) begins part way into this message.



Against Pagan and Roman Catholic Holy-days (Holidays) Like Christmas, Easter, etc. (Many Free Reformation Resources)

Christian Opposition To Man-Made Holy Days (Christmas, Easter, etc.) In Vain They Do Worship Me, Teaching Doctrines Of Men by James Gilfillan



Presbyterians Do Not Observe Christmas, Easter, etc. (A Reformation Argument Against Popish Holy Days) by Samuel Miller (Free MP3)



A Puritan Reformed Discussion of Holy Days (Lord's Day/Christian Sabbath, Christmas, Easter, etc.) by Greg Barrow (Free MP3)



Reasons Against Festival Days, Christmas, Easter, Etc. (By the Perth Assembly) by David Calderwood (4 Free MP3s)

Calvinism, or the Sovereignty of God, in Worship (Free Online Books Against Arminianism In Worship)

Christmas: Classic Reformation (Puritan and Reformed) Teaching (Free Books, Videos and MP3s)

Many of the same biblical arguments against Antichrist's "Christ-mass", especially those form the second commandment (the regulative principle of worship or the sovereignty of God over worship and the fourth commandment (the Lord's Day or the sovereignty of God over our use of time), also apply the Easter.

Reformation Worship, the Regulative Principle, Iconoclasm, etc. (Free Reformation Resources For Calvinism In Worship, Against Arminianism In Worship)

PURITANS, REFORMERS, & COVENANTERS ON CHRISTMAS, EASTER, WORSHIP, THE REGULATIVE PRINCIPLE & IDOLATRY

Christmas Is Part Of Roman Catholic (Papacy/Antichrist) Missionary Strategy And High-Handed Idolatry (SWRB Blog)

History Of Holy Days: Part 7 of 7 by Dr. Steven Dilday (Free MP3)



The crowning sermon of this fine series on little heard Bible truth related to removing Antichrist's holy days, removing the monuments to idolatry of the Papal Antichrist, the duty of the civil magistrate [rulers] in these matters, errors of Dispensationalism, the egalitarian American amendments to the Westminster Confession of Faith, Jonathan Edwards on Antichrist and his holy days, David Steel on separation, etc. More FREE ONLINE MP3s and TEXT RESOURCES from the best Puritan, Covenanter, Presbyterian, Reformed and Baptist authors and preachers, on the Biblical view of holy days, are at https://www.sermonaudio.com/go/413 and at https://www.swrb.com/newslett/FREEBOOK/holyday.htm).

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Easter Is Not Biblical - It Is A Superstitious Pagan and Roman Catholic Holy Day (Free MP3s, Books, etc.)