If we come to your door inviting you to join us in sugar crusted gooey fluff, just say "No Thanks". Say Halleluja and Amen!
Posted on 04/05/2015 6:23:52 AM PDT by Texas Eagle
Babel was the origin of an idolatrous system that swept the world. The Bible says of her, “Babylon… the nations drank her wine; Therefore the nations are deranged” (Jeremiah 51:7). idolatry originated in the area of Babylonia—the most ancient of religious systems.”[8]
Basically, almost every vile, profane and idolatrous practice you can think of originated at Babel with Queen Easter/Ishtar (Semiramis), the Mother Goddess and Nimrod. As the people scattered from Babel with their different languages, they, of course, used different names for Nimrod (Tammuz) and Semiramis. Some called the Mother Goddess “ISHTAR” (originally pronounced “Easter”).[9] In other lands, she was called Eostre, Astarte, Ostera, and Eastre. Other names for Semiramis, the Mother Goddess include: Wife of Baal, Ashtaroth or Ashtoreth, and Queen of Heaven.[10] The Mother goddess was frequently worshipped as the goddess of fertility—and as a sort of Mother Nature and goddess of Spring and sexual love and birth. She was also worshipped as a mediator between god and man. Sexual orgies and temple prostitutes were often used in her worship and in attempting to gain her favor.
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Excuse me, but you were the one who said that Easter has "Anti-Christian origins".
So, I'm sorry I won't be playing your passive aggressive game. If you don't like the pushback you received today, here's an idea: think before you post.
Have a nice....whatever.
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Yes, they are, unwittingly. It's not that they're bad people. It is so entrenched in our culture, it's almost unavoidable. It takes a certain kind of person with a questioning, focused mind to see the truth for what it is, and your influences have to be enlightened to the facts; else you will never understand the complex path that has led to modern feel-good, corrupted Christianity. It's not something we discover in a vacuum.
What does it take for people to change? We see modern churches endorsing homosexuality, approving of punitive wealth redistribution, espousing Marxist creed, and refusing to condemn abortion. These are all atrocities against scripture, against Judaism and Christianity that should be obvious to all -- except it isn't. They don't want to alienate anyone! After all, these churches need the membership! They need the money, so they can add another building to the church grounds, or build a bigger auditorium, etc., etc. How much worse is it going to get?
We are seeing an erosion of culture that is going to end badly. It's tragic enough that external forces are imposing on those of us with faith (secularism). But when we give in, when we no longer set our selves apart from the secular humanists, we will meet a fate much worse; we will lose favor in the eyes of God.
Well, not for David J. Meyer, Last Trumpet Ministries International, PO Box 806, Beaver Dam, WI 53916, anyway...
David J. Meyer, Last Trumpet Ministries International, PO Box 806, Beaver Dam, WI 53916 just happens to be the author of this particular collection of facts.
But more importantly, Easter was not for Christians predating emperor Constantine and the Council of Nicea, if you know your Christian history. They observed Passover. Of course the Romans wanted to distance themselves from the Jews. As did Martin Luther (a fanatical Jew-hater) later.
Paul and the early Christians kept Passover and the Days of Unleavened Bread. They did not keep Easter.
Oddly enough, it’s mostly the more “skeptical” of my friends who post the “Easter is Ishtar” stuff on Facebook. Whichever direction it’s coming from, lulz, no, it’s stupid.
Really false facts, indicating that Christians celebrating the Resurrection are really celebrating a pagan goddess or similar nonsense. David J. Meyer, Last Trumpet Ministries International, PO Box 806, Beaver Dam, WI has squandered whatever credibility he might have previously enjoyed - as has anyone claiming him as authority.
Easter was not for Christians ..
Horse hockey. You confuse a name with an event.
if you know your Christian history..
you'd not have lost the sacrament of Holy Eucharist.. among other things.
So I think history is not the primary concern here.
Christianity started with Christ, not Constantine. And back then they didn't keep Easter. They kept Passover.
Easter was not for Christians ..
Horse hockey. You confuse a name with an event.
The name reveals (indeed betrays) the pagan accommodation. Which reminds me of another holiday, but that's another topic.
And Christians in the east call their Easter, Pascha - from passover. The connection between the Jewish Passover and the Christian feast of Easter is real and liturgical.
There are many similarities, but they are not the same. Christians celebrate the resurrection of the Messiah; Jews do not. Neither are pagan.
Yes, and we have history of a debate over when to celebrate Pascha/Easter back in the early second century; long before Constantine.
"...when the millions of people are saying, "Merry Christmas", they are literally saying "Merry death of Christ!""
In the New Testament there is nothing special about any individual Sunday, first day of the week. Christians should treat every Sunday the way that most treat Easter.
I like Pentecost Sunday, too. Very happy day.
The connection between the Jewish Passover and the Christian feast of Easter is real and liturgical.
Ishtar Sunday, with rabbits and eggs... I don't think so. Easter has nothing to do with Passover, look at history. I am not intending to offend you, but the truth is easy to find -- if you have the courage to face it.
More on the pagan roots of Easter:
http://torahlifeministries.org/portfolio-post/the-pagan-history-of-easter/
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http://mystery-babylon.org/easter.html
The "debate" appears to have ended with the Council of Nicea, as I mentioned.
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...As the church separated itself from the Hebrew root it was grafted into, pagan practices began to quickly infiltrate it. With the victory of Constantine in the early 4th century (300's), the paganization of the church accelerated rapidly and was given the official state seal, protected and enforced by law. Overnight Pagan temples became churches, and former pagan priests became "Christian" Priests. Statues of Jupiter, became Peter, others represented other saints.
The Council of Nicea & Imperial edicts sealed pagan practices, with Shabbat now being outlawed (replaced by the day to honor the sun god, called Sunday, not to honor Messiah) and the resurrection celebration (originally 3 days after Passover) moved to the pagan celebration of Easter.
http://www.hebrewroot.com/pagan_origins_of_easter.htm
You label it "a gem of an error" but didn't provide his entire argument for context, or his sources.
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Here let it be noted that most people think that the word, "Christmas" means "the birth of Christ." By definition, it means "death of Christ", and I will prove it by using the World Book Encyclopedia, the Catholic Encyclopedia, and a book entitled, The Mass In Slow Motion.
If you are an honest, sincere and discerning Christian, please read on; if not, you might as well stop right here. The World Book Encyclopedia defines "Christmas" as follows: "The word Christmas comes from "Cristes Maesse", an early English phrase that means "Mass of Christ." (1) It is interesting to note that the word "Mass", as used by the Roman Catholics, has traditionally been rejected by the so-called Protestants, such as Lutherans, Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Pentecostals and so on. The word "Mass" is strictly a Catholic word and thus, so is "Christ-Mass."
It would stand to reason, that since all of these denominations love and embrace "Christ-Mass", that December 25th is the great homecoming day, when all of the Protestants become Catholic for a day. It would seem that all of the so-called "wayward daughters" of the Romish church return to their mother, the scarlet harlot. Thus, all of the so-called Protestant churches could sing to the Pope that popular song "I'll be home for Christmas."
As previously stated, the word "Mass" in religious usage means a "death sacrifice." The impact of this fact is horrifying and shocking; for when the millions of people are saying, "Merry Christmas", they are literally saying "Merry death of Christ!" Furthermore, when the fat man in the red suit laughs boisterously and says, "Ho ho ho, Merry Christmas", he is mocking and laughing at the suffering and bleeding Saviour, who died for our sins. He does this while parents place their little children into his waiting arms to hear his false promises of gifts that he says he will give them. Consider what you are saying when you say "Merry Christmas."
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Unfortunately Christmas is even more problematic than Easter.
http://www.simpletoremember.com/media/a/Real-Story-of-X-mas-and-New-Years-b/
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Did the pilgrims keep Christmas?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2812597/posts
I am tolerant of those views. I don't approve of them, but I am tolerant. I believe in our Constitution.
Let's remember, there is only one religion that is intolerant. That's where the real threat resides.
The Orthodox don't like the word Easter, that's true. They will tell you Easter the word is an Anglo-Saxon word for a pagan festival. There is a widely cited mistranslation of Acts 4:12 in (among others) the King James version. Hebrew Pesar/Greek Pascha/English Easter. Passover references "...how God "passed over" the Jewish homes and spared the first born Israelites from the fate that was in store for their Egyptian counterparts. While all the Egyptian first born were stricken at midnight of the fifteenth day of the month of Nissan of the year 2448, not one Jewish first born was harmed."
http://www.chabad.org/holidays/passover/pesach_cdo/aid/1772/jewish/Passover-or-Pass-over.htm
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Passover: The Story in a Nutshell
After many decades of slavery to the Egyptian pharaohs, during which time the Israelites were subjected to backbreaking labor and unbearable horrors, G‑d saw the people’s distress and sent Moses to Pharaoh with a message: “Send forth My people, so that they may serve Me.” But despite numerous warnings, Pharaoh refused to heed G-d’s command. G‑d then sent upon Egypt ten devastating plagues, afflicting them and destroying everything from their livestock to their crops.
At the stroke of midnight of 15 Nissan in the year 2448 from creation (1313 BCE), G‑d visited the last of the ten plagues on the Egyptians, killing all their firstborn. While doing so, G‑d spared the Children of Israel, “passing over” their homes—hence the name of the holiday. Pharaoh’s resistance was broken, and he virtually chased his former slaves out of the land. The Israelites left in such a hurry, in fact, that the bread they baked as provisions for the way did not have time to rise. Six hundred thousand adult males, plus many more women and children, left Egypt on that day, and began the trek to Mount Sinai and their birth as G‑d’s chosen people.
http://www.chabad.org/holidays/passover/pesach_cdo/aid/871715/jewish/What-Is-Passover.htm
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For Christians Easter is the celebration of Christ’s Resurrection.
Passover commemorates the emancipation of the Israelites from slavery in ancient Egypt.
A mistranslation does not establish equivalency.
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