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To: madison10
Why don’t current Christians celebrate Passover?

This Christian celebrates Passover.....and you may be surprised at how many others do also!

Don’t you think the early Christians celebrated that holiday with particular joy?

The early church continued to celebrate Passover until the Roman Church took things into their own hands and threatened folks with their lives if they continued these "JEWISH" observances.

Here is the Bishop of Ephesus telling us that he still observed Passover (late second century) and his family had been instructed to do so by the Apostle John (last living apostle) himself! Polycrates, Bishop of Ephesus You found the early church continuing to honor God and His Holy Festivals well into the fourth and fifth centuries before being hunted down by the state sponsored Roman Church.

33 posted on 03/16/2008 11:35:30 AM PDT by Diego1618
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To: Diego1618

please, another pathetic attempt to mock Christ’s church with your own spin on some early church writings...

i love how folks use the church father’s writings if they can spin them to disparage the church, but when the same early church fathers show the distinctive catholicity of the early church, all the sudden, “well, that doesnt matter, cause the bible says ‘_________’, etc, etc”


39 posted on 03/16/2008 11:49:07 AM PDT by raygunfan
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