That does it, I'm taking my eggs and going home.
Posted on 04/23/2011 10:25:07 AM PDT by patlin
As we come to the final days of Passover when we celebrate the Risen Christ and as I journey into a deeper study of the Christian faith, I find myself learning many eye opening truths that were never taught to me by my church leaders since youth. Truths that I did not teach my children & have not taught grandchildren because I failed to explore Christian doctrine outside of the church teachings.
For the 1st time in my life, I did not decorate for the Christmas season last December & for the 1st time, I am not decorating nor celebrating an Easter,"Estore", season either. Why? Well, let's start with the words of Martin Luther ...
"The world at the present time is sagaciously discussing how to quell the controversy and strife over doctrine and faith, and how to effect a compromise between the Church and the Papacy. Let the learned, the wise, it is said, bishops, emperor and princes, arbitrate. Each side can easily yield something, and it is better to concede some things which can be construed according to individual interpretation, than that so much persecution, bloodshed, war, and terrible, endless dissension and destruction be permitted.
"Here is lack of understanding, for understanding proves by the Word that such patchwork is not according to God's will, but that doctrine, faith and worship must be preserved pure and unadulterated; there must be no mingling with human nonsense, human opinions or wisdom." "Estore" is a sun goddess worshipped by the pagans during the spring equinox. Bunnies & eggs are her signs of the fertility of mother earth. So the questions begged to be answered are, why did the Roman Catholic Papacy use the name of a pagan god to define one of Christianity's most important events? Why are Christians all over the globe today still celebrating this pagan event at home & in the Church when God rebuled these pagan religious traditions?
When Judeo-Christian monks worked mendaciously to gain followers by destroying pagan history and defaming the elder gods as demons, they had no weapons to deface the innocence of Eostre. Instead, they adopted her holiday and attempted to graft their values onto it. As the Judeo-Christians could offer nothing better, they simply claimed what existed as their own, changed the story slightly, and then tried to cover up and break people's connection to the past.
"Ostara, Eostre seems therefore to have been a divinity of the radiant dawn, of upspringing light, a spectacle that brings joy and blessing, whose meaning could be easily adapted to the resurrection-day of the christian's God. - Jacob Grimm, "Teutonic Mythology" 2 Corinthians 6: 14-16 tells us ...
"Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? Or what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; just as God said, "I will dwell in them and walk among them; And I will be their God, and they shall be My people." The resurrection is about baptism, the immersion into the waters, as a sign of renewel & rebirth the life of Christ. The Bible no where speaks of bunnies & eggs. The Lord told us that many will come, but few will enter His gates ...
"Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it" When the Pilgrims first settled in American, these pagan customs were banned. These celebrations were deemed unlawful. The Christian Pligrims had fled Europe for a land in which they could establish Christian communites based on the biblical teaching of Jesus Christ. They wished to shred every heresy & pagan doctrine forced upon them by the Roman Catholic Papacy & the English Church who had become nothing more than Religious Political & Military entities that ruled with an iron fist & who kept their people under oppression. In Constantine's plight to rid the world of paganism, instead of banishing these pagan cutoms, he adopted them as Christian theocracy thinking that he could rid the worls of them by giving them a Christian definition that had no roots in Biblical Christianity. In 2 Corinthians 6: 17, we here this command...
" Therefore, COME OUT FROM THEIR MIDST AND BE SEPARATE," says the Lord."AND DO NOT TOUCH WHAT IS UNCLEAN; And I will welcome you" Now, what does this say of modern Christianity when these so-called Christians still cling to pagan traitiditions? It says that paganism is alive and well in the churches of all religions across the globe. The message it sends to me is that Christian churches must cling fast to pagan traditions in order to fill the pews so that they can keep their political & religious military alive. So that they can keep their monetary coffers filled to the brim.
If the Christian churches wished to truly celebrate Passover & Eternal Life through the resurrection of Christ, a more befitting celebration would be to usher in a season of global Baptism. A season of renewl & rebirth through cleansing. The washing away of the old so that one may arise with the new.
How glorious a sight would that be, to see thousands Baptized the same way they did during the times of Christ. This is what Passover & Pentecost is about. Isn't it about time Christians start standing for the truth instead of continuing to partake in pagan customs? The Scriptures give us the rule in no uncertain terms in Acts 5: 29 ...
'We must obey God rather than men' So, as you gather tomorrow with family & friends to celebrate, ask yourselves ... what are you celebrating & how are you celebrating it?
Dear Linda...
We don’t have to ask ourselves that question about how we will be celebrating tomorrow? We KNOW how we will be celebrating...with BIG, HUGE, BEAUTIFUL BASKETS FILLED...yes.... I said FILLED with candy and jelly beans and choc eggs and choc bunnies and a HUGE CREAM EASTER EGG IN THE MIDDLE OF EVERYTHING and beautiful colored grass and a BIG HUGE HAM DINNER with all the trimmings and egg hunts and hard boiled eggs that are colored with dye.
We will eat, drink and be merry and rejoice in the fact He is Risen!!!
What will YOU be doing? Oh wait...I dont’ care....I forgot.
Please, please stop the contortion - read the passage in context and let it speak for itself - before you embarrass yourself further by this muddled interpretation on your part.
Hardly, you obviously didn’t read the last few paragraphs of the article:
INdeed -and I know of no Christians being baptized in the name of 'easter', or astare, or any other pagan goddess. I don't know what church you affiliate with - but thousands ARE baptized into Christ. The Communion isn't suddenly replaced with peeps and orange juice because of the name of the day.
In the words of the sage - lighten up Francis.
As a former Protestant explained to me: “They have to rationalize their existence.” How can they explain that they have a doctrine and outlook that didn’t exist anywhere in the first 1500 years of Christianity? They do it by suggesting that those 1500 years were all bunk.
Notice how they refuse to acknowledge that these pagan names & traditions were banned in the original settlements of America? That they were codified in municipal law as UNLAWFUL?
Yes, Europe truly DID corrupt the new world of Christ that is now the United States of America.
We got POST REPLY and that is MUCH better!
There is NO logical relationship between what I wrote and your
So the Catholics don’t & never have referred to the season of Passover as the “Easter Season” There is NO USE of the term “EASTER” in ANY Catholic Church celebration?
Thye original statement condemned a non-exitent fact:
...the Roman Catholic Papacy use[d] the name of a pagan god to define one of Christianity’s most important events?
"define"? I don't even know what that means in this context. Names are used to denominate, not to define. And any defining or denominating the Papacy does is in Latin. The name of the Holiday in our Church is Pascha. Even to get your silly argument a hearing you have to fabricate a non-existent Papal act.
There is NO logical relationship between what I wrote and your
So the Catholics don’t & never have referred to the season of Passover as the “Easter Season” There is NO USE of the term “EASTER” in ANY Catholic Church celebration?
Thye original statement condemned a non-exitent fact:
...the Roman Catholic Papacy use[d] the name of a pagan god to define one of Christianity’s most important events?
"define"? I don't even know what that means in this context. Names are used to denominate, not to define. And any defining or denominating the Papacy does is in Latin. The name of the Holiday in our Church is Pascha. Even to get your silly argument a hearing you have to fabricate a non-existent Papal act.
Where do they get this bilge, it is little but a distraction. If God didn't like Saturday he would have mentioned it in passing...
Well; you got ONE thing right!
(maybe)
Awesome.
>> “The Communion isn’t suddenly replaced with peeps and orange juice because of the name of the day.
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No, the communion isn’t replaced, the day of the communion is what the pagans succeeded in replacing. The date of every communion referenced in the NT is the Passover, which mostly is a mid-week sabbath, although rarely it will fall on what was for the original Christians, the first day of the work week: Sunday.
You wrote:
“Notice how they refuse to acknowledge that these pagan names & traditions were banned in the original settlements of America?”
SATURN’S DAY was banned? Tuesday was banned? Thursday was banned? How about May? Was that banned? Were wedding rings banned?
Your hypocrisy is showing.
By the way, do you celebrate birthdays?
Pagan.
That does it, I'm taking my eggs and going home.
Are you telling me that the word Easter was not used in Virginia?
If NOT, then your words should have been:
pagan names & traditions were banned in[one of]or {some of] the original settlements of America?
Notice how are all coming out in profuse protectionism to their Catholic religion, yet none have said one word that Church of England was also called out onto the carpet for keeping paganism going?The last I heard the Anglicans don't have a papacy going around naming holidays. That was the ridiculous and fantastic allegation to which I was responding.
I really love the ones who go after Methodist (and others)because we use the Nicene Creed and such. “You are no better than Catholics”. I always answer, “you are right”.
I freak them out real bad when I tell them about the GOA accepting my Methodist Baptism for membership many years ago...
Huh?
LOL...
Well if they stopped counting at 29 like my wife...
When you can cite Gospel teachings that give authority for the Christian Church to use paganism to promote the Gospel, then you have a case. Until then, you are like I was until I really started studying the Gospel OUTSIDE of what religious theocrats teach. FYI, the Lord told the disciples to go out, teach & baptize new disciples, not build religious theocracies where each one has its own interpretation as to what the Gospel says and its own set of religious laws for their members to follow. There is only one set of laws and those are of Christ, our Lord, our God. What does it say when the Lord proclaimed that only 1/3 of His Jewish people would even enter the Kingdom? It says that we need to really start questioning these religions & their leaders and just how much of the Gospel they teach is really the true doctrine of the Lord God, Jesus Christ.
The communion wasn’t served AFTER Christ had risen either. It was originally served on Wednesday, before he rose Saturday night.
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