It only better confirms the paganism that crept into the early church and takes away from God's plan. As I have always heard, : two wrongs do not make it right!".
January - ME Januari(us), OE Januarius, translation of Latin Januarius, named after JANUS, god of beginnings.
February - ME OE Februarius from Latin Februarius, named for Februa, the feast of purification.
March - ME March(e), from Latin Martius, (month of) Mars.
April - ME Averil, OF Avril, Latin Aprilis mensis (month). The name may derive from the Greek goddess of love, Aphrodite.
May - ME OE Maius, Latin Maius mensis (month), from the Greek Maia, goddess of spring (growth).
June - ME Jun(e), OE Iunius, from Latin mensis Junius, named after the goddess Juno, Queen of the gods.
July - ME Julie, OE Julius, from Latin Julius (Caesar) after whom it was named in 44 BC. The original name was quintilis, fifth month in the early Roman calendar.
August - ME OE Agustus from Latin Augustus (Caesar) 8 BC. The original name was sextilis, sixth month in the early Roman calendar.
September - ME Septembre from Latin September, seventh month in the early Roman calendar
October - ME OE from Latin October, eighth month in the early Roman calendar
November - ME OE from Latin November, ninth month of the early Roman calendar, from novem NINE
December - ME Decembre from OF and Latin December, tenth month of the early Roman calendar (decem TEN + membri from mens MONTH + ri suffix)
Sunday - Sun's Day (Note: xtians/Roman catholics worship on this day. this was the day of the Roman Sun God)
Monday - Moon's Day
Tuesday - Tiw's Day (Norse God)
Wednesday - Woden's Day (Anglo-Saxon God)
Thursday - Thor's Day (Norse God)
Friday - Freyja's Day (Norse God)
Saturday - Saturn's Day
Valentines day-http://www.npr.org/2011/02/14/133693152/the-dark-origins-of-valentines-day
From Feb. 13 to 15, the Romans celebrated the feast of Lupercalia. The men sacrificed a goat and a dog, then whipped women with the hides of the animals they had just slain.
The brutal fete included a matchmaking lottery, in which young men drew the names of women from a jar. The couple would then be, um, coupled up for the duration of the festival — or longer, if the match was right.
Christmas Tree- Lutheran- Taken from the Druids.
Souls going to heaven-http://www.ucg.org/vertical-thought/paganism-in-christianity
Unfortunately, some of the most basic things believed by most professing Christians derive from ancient paganism rather than from the Bible. The idea that people have immortal souls was first taught in ancient Egypt and Babylon. The Greeks likewise taught that at death the soul would separate from the physical body ( Jewish Encyclopedia , 1941, Vol. 6, pp. 564, 566, “Immortality of the Soulâ€). That idea was merged into Christianity from Greek philosophy. It did not come from inspired Scripture.
The ancient Egyptians developed the concept of going to heaven. In their mythology, the god Osiris was killed but then raised back to life, whereupon he went to a distant heavenly realm. The Egyptians concluded that if he could do this, then human beings could follow ( Lewis Browne, This Believing World , pp. 83-84). This heavenly reward was a central teaching of several ancient mystery religions—
Good list. I am sure none of those things will be in the Lord’s kingdom, save for the first day as the Lord’s, though the names of the months and days of the week are mere reference points, not the Christianized paganism of Rome which too many Prots perpetuate.
It only better confirms the paganism that crept into the early church and takes away from God's plan. As I have always heard, : two wrongs do not make it right!".
It is unfortunate that the Sadducees/Pharisees conflict was won by the Sadducees:
Matthew 22:23-34 (NASB)
On that day some Sadducees (who say there is no resurrection) came to Jesus and questioned Him,
asking, "Teacher, Moses said, 'IF A MAN DIES HAVING NO CHILDREN, HIS BROTHER AS NEXT OF KIN SHALL MARRY HIS WIFE, AND RAISE UP CHILDREN FOR HIS BROTHER.'
"Now there were seven brothers with us; and the first married and died, and having no children left his wife to his brother; so also the second, and the third, down to the seventh.
"Last of all, the woman died.
"In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had married her."
But Jesus answered and said to them, "You are mistaken, not understanding the Scriptures nor the power of God.
"For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
"But regarding the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God:
'I AM THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, AND THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB'? He is not the God of the dead but of the living."
When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at His teaching. But when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered themselves together.
I suppose it's one thing to oppose what Paul taught regarding body soul and spirit, but to assert that what he wrote to the Thessalonians and Corinthians is not inspired is like calling Paul a conjurer ... sort of like defending the conjured blasphemies in catholiciism while accusing inspired writers in the New Testament of being under the influence of paganism. "It did not come from inspired Scripture." verga