I'm all in favor of changing the name of Easter Sunday to Resurrection Day! Of course, we'll never get Congress to enact that change but that's OK, we do not need majority approval or public opinion to worship as we see fit. Nothing inherently wrong with calling Easter as is except there is no direct intellectual connection to the story behind the day as named, at least not for me. Christmas, for example, inherently implies Christ in the name whereas the word Easter, by itself, does not evoke images of a risen savior or expose the eternal implications for us behind Jesus' resurrection. Additionally, the observance of Easter Sunday has been unduly influenced and corrupted by commercial enterprises and by those political and atheistic forces that want to remove God from every aspect of our lives, as in Christmas, thus the real meaning that engulfs Easter is lost among the heathens and somewhat diluted within the Christian Church. That's why I'm all in favor of changing the name of Easter Sunday to Resurrection Day! While we are at it, let's also drop the adjective "happy" as in Happy Easter and leave that for birthdays and the like. Instead I propose "Glorious Resurrection Day" be adopted as the new mantra because only through Jesus's glorious resurrection are we promised our own resurrection to our eternal home with God. The Apostle Paul beautifully describes this in 1 Corinthians 15:
"Christ died for our sins, just as the Scriptures said...He was buried, and he was raised from the dead on the third day, as the Scriptures said...But the fact is that Christ has been raised from the dead. He has become the first of a great harvest of those who will be raised to life again...So you see, just as death came into the world through a man, Adam, now the resurrection from the dead has begun through another man, Christ...Everyone dies because all of us are related to Adam, the first man. But all who are related to Christ, the other man, will be given new life...But there is an order to this resurrection: Christ was raised first; then when Christ comes back, all his people will be raised...After that the end will come, when He will turn the Kingdom over to God the Father, having put down all enemies of every kind...For Christ must reign until He humbles all his enemies beneath his feet...And the last enemy to be destroyed is DEATH."
Glorious Resurrection Day to you all!
