The grace believers Biblical guide regarding observing or not observing "days" is found at Col 2:16
"Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days"
Easter Sunday will be here on April 5, 2026. I do not know of any
believer (even those that fail to rightly divide) that thinks bunnies or
eggs have anything to do with the resurrection of Christ. However, you
will hear a bunch of "Christians" and preachers complaining about
bunnies and eggs as if there is some great emergency going on in the
"church" because of this. I hate to say this but you will even hear
Grace Believers carried away with this nonsensical complaining. My
position is that although these traditions are pagan in origin nobody is
equating these things with the resurrection of Christ. Simply put kids
just think it is fun to hunt eggs and eat chocolate bunnies. When I
was a kid I hunted eggs and ate chocolate bunnies, not because I wanted
to worship some false god named "Ishtar," but because I wanted to find
the prize egg and eat candy. I never knew who "Ishtar" was until I was a
grown man and heard people complaining about parents allowing their
kids to worship this false god by hunting eggs etc. I can understand
all the denominational preachers and "Christians" getting caught up in
all the complaining about "Easter," but I don't understand the Grace
Believers doing so? These complaints are simply a form of legalism that
Paul spoke of in Col 2:21 ( Touch
not; taste not; handle not;). If you do not want your kids eating candy
eggs or chocolate bunnies, then it is your right as a parent to forbid
it. However, I do not appreciate my liberty in Christ to allow my
children fun at Easter to be equated with the worship of "Ishtar."
The answer to the question of Easter eggs and bunnies should be
settled like Grace Believers claim to settle all other matters.
Consider what our apostle (Paul) has to say about such matters! I know
of one deceased grace preacher that used to say you could not be a "Mid
Acts King Jame Bible-Believing Pauline Dispensationalist" if
you took part in things like Easter, Christmas, etc. My question to
those that share this conviction is where in Paul's writings do you find
such teaching? The answer is "nowhere." My position on Easter eggs
and bunnies is based on what our apostle says in 1 Corinthians 8:4-8:
[4] As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
[5] For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)
[6]
But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and
we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by
him.
[7] Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge:
for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing
offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
[8] But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.
Did you get what Paul just said above? He says you can eat food
even if it was offered in a worship service to an idol! No food or lack
of food under grace commends us to God. We are not better or worse
spiritually based on our diet. In light of this scripture I take the
position my children and I can eat Easter eggs and bunnies because we do
not eat them as a thing offered to an idol, "Ishtar," but we eat them
for enjoyment.The same is true of Halloween Candy and Christmas Candy!