[safisoft]

Should we confuse the supposed Biblical experts with inconvenient facts? Few care that the sola scriptura of the Reformation really just exchanged the post-Nicean Roman authority for the pre-Nicean dogma of equally confused "church fathers." When disconnected from the root, the branches tend to think that they are what supports everything.

The history of "easter" is the most documented, and most ignored paganization of the faith and practice of Scripture that ever existed. Most "christians" just unknowingly quote Plato and "spiritualize" their error.

Don't confuse them with the facts. As for me and my house... we will keep the Feast next Monday night. We will eat unleavened bread for seven days... just like our Master did. We remember...

[Radix]

Don't confuse them with the facts."

 

Gosh, who am I to even thinking of suggesting that anyone might consider Googling "Mystery Religion"?

 

Or God forbid, Googling ..."Babylon Mystery Religion"? 

 

Nobody, so I'll just go back about my business.

[gondramB]

>>Should we confuse the supposed Biblical experts with inconvenient facts? Few care that the sola scriptura of the Reformation really just exchanged the post-Nicean Roman authority for the pre-Nicean dogma of equally confused "church fathers." When disconnected from the root, the branches tend to think that they are what supports everything.<<

I felt kind of confused about this paragraph - I see you are drawing a parallel between the reformation and the Council of Nicaea. Are you saying they were both futile because church leaders are human?

[Ping-Pong]

My family will join you in observing Passover.

Some think it not important to keep the correct date as long as they know that it is Christ's resurrection they honor but God certainly cares.

Think of His plan from the beginning. Christ was crucified where long before Abraham placed his son Isaac to be crucified. Christ wore a crown of thorns while God provided Abraham a sacrifice that was caught in thorns. The Passover, to mark the angel of death passing over their houses because of blood on their door - Christ became our Passover and His blood makes the death angel passover us. Christ became the lamb on Passover for us - not the easter bunny on Ishtar, with eggs from a fertility rite which were originally colored with blood from children slain on an altar.

It matters.

To God it is an abomination and He lets us know in Ezekiel 8:
14....There say women weeping for Tammuz.
(Tammuz was Ishtar's son who was killed by a wild boar and the people had to give up their happiness for 40 days and weep for him - ham on easter & lent)
15........and thou shalt see greater abominations than these
16.And He brought me into the inner court of the LORD's house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.
(Easter sunrise service)
18.Therefore will I also deal in fury; Mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in Mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.

The day matters to Father.