Posted on 04/05/2015 6:23:52 AM PDT by Texas Eagle
Babel was the origin of an idolatrous system that swept the world. The Bible says of her, “Babylon… the nations drank her wine; Therefore the nations are deranged” (Jeremiah 51:7). idolatry originated in the area of Babylonia—the most ancient of religious systems.”[8]
Basically, almost every vile, profane and idolatrous practice you can think of originated at Babel with Queen Easter/Ishtar (Semiramis), the Mother Goddess and Nimrod. As the people scattered from Babel with their different languages, they, of course, used different names for Nimrod (Tammuz) and Semiramis. Some called the Mother Goddess “ISHTAR” (originally pronounced “Easter”).[9] In other lands, she was called Eostre, Astarte, Ostera, and Eastre. Other names for Semiramis, the Mother Goddess include: Wife of Baal, Ashtaroth or Ashtoreth, and Queen of Heaven.[10] The Mother goddess was frequently worshipped as the goddess of fertility—and as a sort of Mother Nature and goddess of Spring and sexual love and birth. She was also worshipped as a mediator between god and man. Sexual orgies and temple prostitutes were often used in her worship and in attempting to gain her favor.
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Christians should treat every DAY the way that most treat Resurrection Day.
There. Fixed it.
Well I was thinking of church fellowship and the breaking of bread since He told us to do that "as often as we meet".
Ah. Copy that.
Of course it does. Look at the history. Christ's crucifixion and resurrection coincided with Passover. How on earth can you say Easter has nothing to do with Passover?
Are you Christian or Jew? Do you celebrate Passover and not Christ's resurrection?
You indicated that Constatine was the source/beginning of Christians celebration of Easter. That's not true.
Do you really need me to provide the source to debunk your guy's assertion that Christians saying "Merry Christmas", are literally saying "Merry death of Christ!""?
Do you really not know the etymology of 'mass'"? Wouldn't it behoove you to know that before agreeing with David J. Meyer, Last Trumpet Ministries International, PO Box 806, Beaver Dam, WI?
Seriously?
Thank you for your statement here.
I understand you stick dogmatically to church doctrine, you likely believe the Pope is infallible, etc.
Really? How about I say you dogmatically disagree with Catholicism?
Or we could debate issues on their merit.
The Church sees the Old Testament through the New Testament, with Christ as the ultimate fulfillment. We are emancipated through Christ.
And there goes your argument. It's the same event; the same celebration.
They will tell you Easter the word is an Anglo-Saxon word for a pagan festival.
Anyone that does is making the same mistake. It's a ludicrous argument; the same ignorance that says worshiping Christ on Sunday is worshiping the Sun God.
Really? Easter and Passover can be as much as three weeks apart. So is Palm Sunday "liturgically related" related to St. Patrick's Day, because after all, they're less than two weeks apart? Valentine's Day was only four days before Ash Wednesday. Are they "liturgically related" too?
Or say, would move the Sabbath to Sunday. How ludicrous! /s
Really? How about I say you dogmatically disagree with Catholicism?
I'd be fine with that. But I prefer you say I 'dogmatically' do not view any living human as infallible, let alone a successive line of them.
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What a funny coincidence (really!). From the dictionary.com definition of "dogma":
2. a specific tenet or doctrine authoritatively laid down, as by a church: the dogma of the Assumption; the recently defined dogma of papal infallibility. Synonyms: tenet, canon, law.
You likely mean the Catholic Church, though that's true for most Christians (using the definition 'followers of Christ').
Yes I know the basic history, and thought process.
Of course it does. Look at the history.
Do you know what Jews believe about Jesus' resurrection?
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Why Jews Don't believe in Jesus:
http://www.beingjewish.com/toshuv/whynotbrief.html
disclaimer: There are also messianic Jews, and/or "Jews for Jesus" but they don't represent the bulk of Judaism.
I will say something else complementary about the Catholic Church: in organized religion, there is no better voice for the pro-life movement than the Catholic Church! The best moral arguments, the most intellectual arguments seem to come from the Catholic Church. And, over time, the most consistent arguments favoring the protection of the unborn.
No. the Paschal Lamb prefigured symbolically Christ, the Lamb of God, who redeemed the world by the shedding of His blood. The Lamb of God is related to the Paschal Lamb of Passover - foundational and integral to the message of Christianity.
Your view may be different, but this is true for Christianity since the beginning.
Judaism and Christianity split early on over Christ/Messiah. That's why Passover/Easter/Christianity is different than Passover/Judaism.
Thank you for this post.
Let no one, then, pass judgment on you in matters of food and drink or with regard to a festival or new moon or Sabbath (Col. 2:16).
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