This is a holy time, but only by coincidence. We are in the 7 day period of the feast of unleavened bread, one of God's ordained feast periods:
Lev 23:6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
Lev 23:7 In the first day ye shall have a holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
Lev 23:8 But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is a holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
Only God can make something holy. Easter and Good Friday are manmade inventions and thus are not holy.
Diego and Doug are accusing (through the sum total of their deceptively scattered posts) all the great saints, and pretty much every Christian you've ever known of loved, to be hell-bound idolators. Just a little doubt sown here, a little there, and the entire Christian church is under attack. Please note this:
I haven't, and I know diego hasn't, accused any Christian of being "hell-bound". I think most Christians are sincere, but misguided. I think that those who are celebrating pagan holidays are mostly ignorant of scripture and are immersed in a satanic deception, but I'm confident that the truth of God will win out in the end.
2Pe 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
>> Neither can Easter claim to be the time of Christ's conception, His birth coming in the autumn (3312 years before His death in the spring). <<
Where, oh, where is the biblical basis that Christ was born 3312 years before his crucifixion? Why were there people who, at the time of his ministry, clearly remembered his birth?
Ummmm...I'm fairly sure that's a typo. The author probably had written 33 1/2 years before his death in the spring.
Diego and Doug are not Christian.
I know for a fact that I'm a Christian. I was baptized into the body of Christ and have had hands laid on me for the imparting of God's spirit. I can't say for sure whether diego is or not because I've never discussed it with him. But surely he has God working in his life because he has a great understanding of scripture and seems to have Godly character.
They are tools of Satan, having come to spawn division and confusion among Christians.
1Jo 4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
1Jo 4:2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
1Jo 4:3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
I believe that Jesus is the messiah. He came to earth in the flesh and died for our sins.
1Jo 4:14 And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.
1Jo 4:15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
Jesus Christ is the Son of God. He is the first born of God. He sits on the right hand of God on his throne.
1Jo 2:3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
1Jo 2:4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
1Jo 2:5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
1Jo 2:6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
And I think you're a nice guy but completely wacko with some esoteric mumbo-jumbo.
I was not aware that the SDA's practiced the laying on of hands. I knew that the Mormans do and believe that this gives them Apostolic abilities. Do you also believe that you have the same abilities as those on whom the Apostles laid their hands? If so, which abilites do you possess?