Posted on 04/03/2007 6:31:28 AM PDT by DouglasKC
Here, have some Niceness Nodules. Chocolate is helpful, too.
Happy Tuesday, and don’t forget the libations to Tiw, or you’re toast!
Maybe it’s just me, but this year the journalists seem to be working over-time to come up with stories that make Easter or Passover look bad.
Thanks for the bump on this Tuesday that marks the beginning of one of Christ’s spring festivals, the days of unleavened bread!
The feasts of Passover and Unleavened Bread have deep meaning to Christ's true disciples. They reveal aspects of God's plan for the salvation of humanity—commemorating the fact that Jesus died for us and lives in us and for us (1 Corinthians 11:26; Galatians 2:20; Colossians 3:3-4).
You are very welcome. A very blessed festival to you and your loved ones.
Actually, Christians celebrate Easter every Sunday. (”The Lords Day”). We just make it extra special once a year. In my book we can’t worship the Savior enough much less too often.
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These supposed thousands know more than the rest of Christianity...the early Fathers and Doctors of the Church and all of the many hundreds of millions of Christians who have ever lived and celebrated Easter! They have some special knowledge the rest of us don't have. I thought the Church stamped out that Gnostic Heresy a long time ago. Well...theeeeey're back.
I too believe you can and should worship Christ all the time. However, he was very specific in his instructions to his followers that he has created certain periods of time as being holy. And that his followers should observe these days. These holy days are listed in Leviticus, chapter 23.
"The Lord's Day" is the weekly sabbath which begins at sundown Friday and ends at sundown on Saturday:
Mar 2:28 Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
If it's a "Gnostic Heresy" to follow the Lord's instructions in the bible then chalk me up as a Gnostic Heretic.
This is simply an example of lousy research.
Easter is called by that name ONLY in nations with a Germanic language tradition. In the other European countries it is called “Passover.” This along indicates that it wasn’t some plot to foist some unproved ancient religion on top of Christianity.
In both German and English, the word for the compass direction “east” is either “oest or east.” In both German and English, the word for Sun is either Sonne or Sun. In both German and English, the word for Son is “Sohn or Son.”
The dawn sun rises in the east.
The dawn of new life through the SON rises at EASTer.
Otherwise, the celebration happens at Passover, as other European countries acknowledge. There is no biblical problem with recognizing the passover time of year as the time of Jesus, the Lamb of God, being sacrificed. It is entirely biblical that that is when it occurred.
The germanic languages recognize the same about passover, but have made a play on words about the “Sun(Son) RISING (resurrection) in the EASTERly direction.”
A “SonRise” Service, if you will.
Thoroughly biblical, and I’m a bit amused at some of the claptrap scholarship that purports to demonstrate otherwise. I’m sure that if I looked hard enough I could find some ancient god from some culture or other to naysay anything that anyone does.
Does it matter?
I doubt that the ancient Christians celebrated Presidents' Day, Independence Day, or Thanksgiving the way we do, but those holidays seem harmless enough.
Calling the celebration "Easter" or "Passover" matters little. I could call it "PassEaster" and it still wouldn't be one of the days that the Lord commanded us to observe or the days he observed himself.
The germanic languages recognize the same about passover, but have made a play on words about the “Sun(Son) RISING (resurrection) in the EASTERly direction.”
That's a pretty good justification, but again not biblical.
Eze 8:16 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 worshiped the sun toward the east.
Eze 8:17 Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.
I find it interesting that in verses above, the 25 have turned their back to the temple and are worshipping the rising sun. Interesting parallel to today, don't you think?
Apparently it does matter. Christ deemed it important enough that he created holy days for us to worship on. When he incarnated, he observed these same days he created.
One man considers one day more sacred than another; another man considers every day alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. He who regards one day as special, does so to the Lord. He who eats meat, eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who abstains, does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God. For none of us lives to himself alone and none of us dies to himself alone. If we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. - Romans 14:4-8
If you read all of Romans 14 in context there are a number of things that should leap out at you.
1. The focus of the chapter is eating and drinking practices. Approximately 75% of the verses directly mention eating or drinking and the rest of the verses are support for this central theme. Therefore the "days" mentioned somehow pertain to eating and drinking.
2. There is no mention of the Lord's Holy days (greek heorte). Therefore Paul or other early Christians never took this to mean that they are free to ignore the days that the Lord created holy for ones of their own choosing.
This is simply an example of lousy research.
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Otherwise, the celebration happens at Passover, as other European countries acknowledge. There is no biblical problem with recognizing the passover time of year as the time of Jesus, the Lamb of God, being sacrificed. It is entirely biblical that that is when it occurred.
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Thoroughly biblical, and I’m a bit amused at some of the claptrap scholarship that purports to demonstrate otherwise. I’m sure that if I looked hard enough I could find some ancient god from some culture or other to naysay anything that anyone does.
12 posted on 04/03/2007 8:02:34 AM MDT by xzins
Yah'shua ( Yah is become my Salvation ) commanded us to celebrate Pesach in His memory. Sunday worship was mandated by Emperor Constantine the Pagan, Pontiff of the Roman church.Name calling does not make it false.
b'shem Yah'shua
Actually, Christians celebrate Easter every Sunday. (”The Lords Day”). We just make it extra special once a year. In my book we can’t worship the Savior enough much less too often.
7 posted on 04/03/2007 7:44:20 AM MDT by joebuck
Sunday worship has for millennia been the worship of the Evil One.The only day called out be the "L-rd's Day" by the Elohim is Shabbat.
b'shem Yah'shua
Chapter 4 (which I just finished teaching through last night) pretty much shoots all this stuff in the head forever. We are children of the free woman, the Heavenly Jerusalem. Let us rejoice with her in freedom!
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