What are 3 reasons why we should have Easter eggs?

Answer 1

It's a celebration of new life during the Spring Equinox which means, whoops, it's a "pagan" tradition (to use the term "pagan" quite loosely).  My guess is that Christianity attached new significance to the springtime tradition when Jesus was resurrected, but it's original meaning was about new life (babies), not resurrection (coming back to life) -- maybe I'm splitting hairs here (or hares, har har!)

Answer 2

I believe that people decorate Easter eggs to make kids think that the real reason for Easter is candy and bunnys but I believe that Easter should be more about God and how his son rose out of a tomb after bing dead for three days. and talked to the people who were around him.

because Easter is a time to celebrate! and it would be boring to bring plain eggs to a Easter celabration.

Answer 3

Rabbits and eggs are pagan fertility symbols of extreme antiquity. Birds lay eggs and rabbits give birth to large litters in the early spring these became symbols of the rising fertility of the earth during the spring season. Since Easter also occurs in the early spring, people brought the beloved pagan symbols into the Christian celebration of Easter. These pagan symbols have become part of the Christian tradition. They do not take anything away from the Resurrection of Jesus Christ and they add to the celebration. Christianity has frequently absorbed the positive and neutral symbols of pagan religions while leaving the negative symbols behind, similar to Christmas trees and Halloween costumes.

Answer 4

Because people are too cheap to buy chocolate bunnies. Also because Easter commemorates the resurrection of Christ, and eggs are symbolic of new/renewed life. Nests full of eggs and newborn bunnies also begin to appear around the March/April timeframe, and so have become symbolic of Spring, another symbol of new/renewed life.

The custom of creating and giving out "Easter" eggs predates Christianity. The egg is widely used as a symbol of the start of new life, just as new life emerges from an egg when the chick hatches out. It was an integral part of any spring (vernal equinox) celebrations, and became incorporated in Christian practices.

The ancient Persians painted eggs for Nowrooz, their New Year celebration, which falls on the Spring equinox. At the Jewish Passover Seder, a hard-boiled egg dipped in salt water symbolizes both new life and the Passover sacrifice offered at the Temple in Jerusalem.

The pre-Christian Saxons had a spring goddess called Eostre, whose feast was held on the Vernal Equinox, around 21 March. Eostre was associated with eggs, and the rebirth of the land in spring was symbolized by the egg.

The pre-christian slavs decorated eggs with beeswax and dyes in spring for talismanic reasons. These eggs, with the proper designs drawn on them, were used to bless and protect each household, and given as gifts to friends and family to confer blessings onto them. Symbols utilized include depictions of the sun, rain, harvest and the Berehynia (mother goddess).

Pope Gregory the Great ordered his missionaries to use old religious sites and festivals and absorb them into Christian rituals where possible. The Christian celebration of the Resurrection of Christ was ideally suited to be merged with the Pagan feast of Eostre and many of the traditions were adopted into the Christian festivities.

Additionally, the practices of the Great Lent which preceded Easter included abstention from consuming meat, milk and eggs. The eggs were set aside, and then prepared for and consumed on Easter itself.

and also the egg represents the tomb stone that blocked him where Jesus was buried but then he came back to life

Answer 5

Thousands of years of paganism in Europe didn't just go away because a new religion came on the scene (Christianity). Easter falls near the Spring Equinox and the eggs are a symbol of rebirth... Eostre was the name of an Anglo-Saxon Goddess of Spring and rebirth, hence the word "Easter"... She was sometimes represented by a hare (a symbol of fertility), hence the Easter rabbit.

The church likely inserted the resurrection of Christ on the calendar during this time of year, hoping the pagan traditions would end.

Answer 6

we have Easter eggs because it symbolises new life

Answer 7

They are yummy and make retailers billions of pounds, not really much else :L

Answer 8

1. They are chocolate.
2. They are chocolate.
3. They are chocolate....

Answer 9

because easter is all about jeus and when he was on the cross