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To: melkor
Take what the jews know of Yahweh and add in the new testiment and leave it at that.

It is called the Bible … Old and New Testament.

34 posted on 02/04/2010 6:27:55 PM PST by doc1019 (To call Obama a bumbling idiot would be an insult to bumbling idiots worldwide.)
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To: doc1019

Exactly....

if you want to be a good christian and not follow pagan rights and rituals you will do what it says in the old and new Testament ONLY

tell me, do you celebrate christmas? do you do so on dec 25th? If so you do so because of something that Constantine did 375ish years AFTER Jesus died.

The date of December 25th originated with the ancient “birthday” of the son-god, Mithra, a pagan deity whose religious influence became widespread in the Roman Empire during the first few centuries A.D. Mithra was related to the Semitic sun-god, Shamash, and his worship spread throughout Asia to Europe where he was called Deus Sol Invictus Mithras. Rome was well-known for absorbing the pagan religions and rituals of its widespread empire. As such, Rome converted this pagan legacy to a celebration of the god, Saturn, and the rebirth of the sun god during the winter solstice period. The winter holiday became known as Saturnalia and began the week prior to December 25th. The festival was characterized by gift-giving, feasting, singing and downright debauchery, as the priests of Saturn carried wreaths of evergreen boughs in procession throughout the Roman temples.

Variations of this pagan holiday flourished throughout the first few centuries after Jesus Christ, but it wasn’t until 336 AD that Emperor Constantine officially converted this pagan tradition into the “Christian” holiday of Christmas


40 posted on 02/04/2010 6:36:40 PM PST by melkor
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