Please show where God commanded us NOT to observe Easter. Book, Chapter, and verse please.
What type of a Christian are you? Why would God possibly want us to celebrate the resurrection of His only Son???? Obviously God would view such banality as something worth of ignoring.......
Deuteronomy 12:32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
Now by observing Easter you are going directly against God’s command unless you can show where He commanded to observe Easter.
and where sayth that Cyn Bear ought post on FR? Where is this written?????????????
I have never found definitively who is responsible for adding that pagan spring ritual, 'quick like a bunny' and eggs, and all, in place of the Passover. But there is no record in the whole of the WORD wherein this practice was made acceptable as Christian practice. However, I do read continually claims about who it was that gave us the New Testament. Hmmmmm?
Paul told the Corinthians, in ICorinthians 5:7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us:
8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
Jeremiah 3:8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
Isaiah 1:9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah. (Paul quoted this in Romans 9:29)
10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
11 "To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto ME?" saith the LORD: "I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
12 When ye come to appear before Me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread MY courts?
Isaiah 1:13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto Me: the new moons and Sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
NOTE Isaiah 1:14 Your new moons and your appointed feast My soul *hateth*; they are a trouble unto Me; I am weary to bear them.
I am not going to type the rest of this chapter but it does give the nitty gritty of what is yet to come regarding the worldly religious system.
I have been told for 30+ years the Old Testament except the places where Mary has been inserted is mere allegory, and a story. You know like Jonah in the belly of Dagon for three days and three nights? Well, that is not what Paul wrote. He warned us that:
I am not going to type all the Scriptures of ICorinthians 10 because they are all relevant to the warning of Paul in verse 11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples (examples): and they are written for our admonition, (warning) upon whom the ends of the world (age) are come.
Jeremiah 7:17 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke Me to anger?
19 Do they provoke Me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
20 Therefore thus saith the LORD GOD; Behold, Mine anger and My fury shall be poured out upon the place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched."
Check out that cup of trembling/wrath that is to be pour out.... Remember Christ did ask if it be possible, let this cup pass from Me: ..... Christ knew very well what would need be, but He was teaching from that so called allegory that the Father had chosen (many are called but few are chosen) to Write the warnings.
This is where we are now. Amos 8:11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that *I* will send a famine in the land, NOT a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, *BUT* of hearing the words of the LORD:
Why the majority are in the same condition as the House of Israel and House of Judah of Jeremiah 3:8.
Please show where God commanded us TO observe Easter. Book, Chapter, and verse please.