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To: NYer
Jesus Christ established a new covenant. He is our Paschal lamb. We now celebrate Jesus Christ born in a cave, circumcized in the Temple, rising from the dead, and ascending into heaven. We celebrate Passover at each and every Mass. There is nothing pagan about any of these feast days, all of which fulfill the promises made to but ignored by many Jews.

So since this "new covenant" supersedes and replaces Jewish holidays, why weren't pagan holidays superseded and replaced? Why were they instead "baptized" and made chr*stian? Couldn't Ro'sh HaShanah, the anniversary of the day G-d created Adam and Eve, have been chr*stianized as well as any Celtic harvest festival or Roman fertility festival?

So my original understanding is confirmed: Catholicism/chr*stianity replaces Biblical Jewish holidays and adapts non-Biblical pagan ones.

Oh well. At least you don't have to worry about the ACLU coming down on this holiday!

53 posted on 10/31/2008 12:14:37 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Shofekh dam ha'adam, ba'adam damo yishafekh; ki betzelem 'Eloqim `asah 'et-ha'adam.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator; NYer
"So my original understanding is confirmed: Catholicism/chr*stianity replaces Biblical Jewish holidays and adapts non-Biblical pagan ones."

Yes. I find life with fewer metaphors to be very relieving. My family does not miss the holidays of our former religion at all and really does feel better without them.

Isaiah 43:11

Not so long ago, there was some Protestant resistance in America against this holiday's festivities/observances. My path of study and prayer was much like that of the early Puritans, but I went that step further.


100 posted on 10/31/2008 2:14:51 PM PDT by familyop (cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-'96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote, http://falconparty.com/)
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