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To: Pyro7480
I think the question on the table was the introduction of Paganism.
b'shem Y'shua

30 posted on 07/08/2006 11:15:38 AM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Isaiah 26:4 Trust in YHvH forever, because YHvH is the Rock eternal.)
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To: XeniaSt

If the question you're trying to prove is to be validated, it helps that the information being used is accurate.


32 posted on 07/08/2006 12:05:56 PM PDT by Pyro7480 ("If you wish to go to extremes, let it be in... patience, humility, & charity." -St. Philip Neri)
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To: XeniaSt

If the question you're trying to prove is to be validated, it helps that the information being used is accurate.


33 posted on 07/08/2006 12:05:57 PM PDT by Pyro7480 ("If you wish to go to extremes, let it be in... patience, humility, & charity." -St. Philip Neri)
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To: XeniaSt
Would you not consider the introduction of Easter in place of Passover or the introduction of Christmas as Paganism?

You make it sound as if the Easter date at Nicaea was *changed* from what it had always been. Not so. From Eusebius's History of the Church:

Chapter XXIII. The Question Then Agitated Concerning the Passover. 1 A Question of no small importance arose at that time. For the parishes of all Asia, as from an older tradition, held that the fourteenth day of the moon, on which day the Jews were commanded to sacrifice the lamb, should be observed as the feast of the Saviour's passover.343 It was therefore necessary to end their fast on that day, whatever day of the week it should happen to be. But it was not the custom of the churches in the rest of the world to end it at this time, as they observed the practice which, from apostolic tradition, has prevailed to the present time, of terminating the fast on no other day than on that of the resurrection of our Saviour.
The Quartodeciman custom was followed by the disciples of St. John in Asia....but it was not followed anywhere else. The majority of the churches around 150 or so followed the Sunday Easter. Irenaeus traces that custom in Rome at least back to Pope Sixtus I around 115-125 A.D.; and the fact that it was already very widespread a few years after suggests that it was probably itself an old tradition.

Nicaea *standardized* the date, it did not change the date.

83 posted on 07/10/2006 9:43:10 AM PDT by Claud
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To: XeniaSt

paganism was introduced in the modern so-called "churchs" in the 20th century when they deviated further and further away from Christianity and the Church. Any Church created in the last 100 years by mere men is a diseased joke of true Christianity.


133 posted on 07/11/2006 9:56:29 PM PDT by Cronos (Islam is on the rampage -- where will the next bombing be?)
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