Let’s just stop right there. God saw fit to preserve enough of the Greek manuscripts to give us His word. Along with the Hebrew texts of the Old Testament we can be assured by faith that God has preserved for us what we need. If we don’t have that faith in God we have nothing anyway.
What you call “Christendom” has many sects that have added to or taken away from the words of those texts. You and I both realize that “christmans” and “easter” are pagan and not condoned by scripture. We determined that by the words found in those preserved scriptures. We rely on the guidance of the Holy Spirit not the words of man. He will lead those who God is calling to be His. As far as the calendar is concerned we still have to live in this world. We are not under the laws of the old calendar. Yes we can understand it and understand God’s timing but as long as we are in this world we will be constrained in some ways to use that calendar. It’s not something that affects our service or dedication to God.
>> I see enough counterfeits of scripture to make me very uncomfortable with christendom that I didnt see just two years ago<<
I have enough trust in God’s promise to preserve His word for “all generations” to believe that the Hebrew Old Testament and the Greek New Testament texts we have are indeed His infallible word. With the guidance of the Holy Spirit as He promised we can be assured that if we diligently seek Him with faith in Christ alone for our salvation God will not abandon or forsake us.
Don’t think for a minute that God didn’t realize how muddied things would get after the apostles passed from this world. His gift of this dispensation of grace was for a reason. Faith alone in Christ alone.
Daniel 7:25
He shall speak pompous words against the Most High,
Shall persecute[a] the saints of the Most High,
And shall intend to change times and law
Rev 12:9
So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Isaiah 14:12-14
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Satan since the beginning desired to be ‘like’ the Most High..
Satan has counterfeited ‘time’ He has made for himself, with man as his vessel, a counterfeit world system that has ignored scripture, but has kept the ‘seven’ day principle to not be so far off that people who read His Word can call it fake..
We can just look at some words we all know and we can see just how much we accept from the world versus His Word..
Day, week, month, year.
Day- the world says a day begins at midnight- that is nowhere in His Holy Word- we can find evidence to the contrary.. we do even find some days are indefinite, some 12 hours long and some 24 hours long in His Word.
Week- the world says it consists of days with gods, goddesses, and creation given their own day- that is nowhere in His Holy Word and we can find evidence of Him numbering days and not giving them names..
Month-the world says a poem to tell us which god/goddess/numbered months have how many days- that is nowhere in His Holy Word- the word ‘month’’in Hebrew is the same word for ‘new moon’, hodesh,- His Creation tells us when a month begins but the world ignores it.
Year- the world says a year begins on January 1st- that is nowhere in His Holy Word- their is evidence that a year could mean a growing season or a circuit of the sun that will bring in the beginning of the months in the spring, not winter.
I don’t know what the pope gregory calendar fully represents in scripture except that it has done the job of counterfeiting our Heavenly Father’s calendar, has hidden His Sabbath and has allowed counterfeit holy days to take the place of His Holy days in His Word, all the while giving an appearance of being ‘’biblical’..
That seems more like an adversarial tool to me than one that will point to our Heavenly Father’s creative and redemptive works.
And praise Yah, I can reject the world and its ruler, satan,as counterfeit and a liar and celebrate and commemorate His awesome creative and redemptive works that He gives us in His sky, His Calendar, His Word and His Son.
HalleluYah!
Or I can be part of the world and commemorate in ignorance Moon, Tiw, Woden, Thor Friya, Saturn, or the Sun with their pope gregory days each week.