Bible Study Whose Resurrection are You Celebrating ?

[Bob10]

Are we really celebrating the resurrection of Christ or of Easter, the fertility goddess of Babylon? Did the goddess Easter resurrect from the underground on the Spring Equinox?

The pagan worshippers believed she did and worship her every year in the spring with orgies, rabbits and eggs.

Constantine was so anti-Semitic that he forced the Christians to change the name of the resurrection of Lord Jesus Christ from "The Feast of First Fruits" Leviticus 23, to Easter. He changed the name to the pagan God Ishtar or Easter. The true Christians never allowed it to change.


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[Bob10]

God warns us that the church of Antichrist will be a church that claims to be the one true Christian church, but practices the demonic rituals of Babylon.



Revelations 17:4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

 

[Templar]

When I celebrate, I call it Resurrection Day just to be more clear.

I don't really like living in a pagan world surrounded by such names, including the names of the days of the week, but there you go, I'm in the world but not of it.

 

[Orthodox Christian]

Are we really celebrating the resurrection of Christ or of Easter, the fertility goddess of Babylon? Did the goddess Easter resurrect from the underground on the Spring Equinox?

Hi Bob: I'm no sure what you're doing, but when I worship Christ on Pascha, I worship the Incarnate Logos. Some call Him Y'Shua, some Jesus, in my tradition He is Iesou Christo, Jesus the Anointed.

The pagan worshippers believed she did and worship her every year in the spring with orgies, rabbits and eggs.

Relevance?

Constantine was so anti-Semitic that he forced the Christians to change the name of the resurrection of Lord Jesus Christ from "The Feast of First Fruits" Leviticus 23, to Easter.
He changed the name to the pagan God Ishtar or Easter. The true Christians never allowed it to change.

Actually, that name found use much later in the West than the time of Constantine.
Some of us true Christians do celebrate the Lord's Passover 'Pascha' on the day of the True firstfruits, the day that he rose from the dead, kyriaki, the Lord's Day, aka Sunday. (first Sunday after Nisan 14/ Passover). We have no worthy offering to bring to Him but ourselves.

But what day we celebrate and what name we call it is NOT what makes us true Christians. What makes us true Christians is Christ, the giver of grace, the One who can forgive sins, the One who can make the blind see, the One who sets free the captives.

Paul saw that obeying the Law was good, but did nothing to promote righteousness. According to you, Bob, those who obey the Hebrew Law are 'true Christians'- ie, saved by the obedience to Law. This is, of course, error.
Best wishes
O.C.

http://www.stathanasius.org/bible/sept_1_2000.html

 

[Kasey]

Are we really celebrating the resurrection of Christ or of Easter, the fertility goddess of Babylon? Did the goddess Easter resurrect from the underground on the Spring Equinox?

Hi Bob: I'm no sure what you're doing, but when I worship Christ on Pascha, I worship the Incarnate Logos. Some call Him Y'Shua, some Jesus, in my tradition He is Iesou Christo, Jesus the Anointed.

The pagan worshippers believed she did and worship her every year in the spring with orgies, rabbits and eggs.

Relevance?

Constantine was so anti-Semitic that he forced the Christians to change the name of the resurrection of Lord Jesus Christ from "The Feast of First Fruits" Leviticus 23, to Easter.
He changed the name to the pagan God Ishtar or Easter. The true Christians never allowed it to change.

Actually, that name found use much later in the West than the time of Constantine.
Some of us true Christians do celebrate the Lord's Passover 'Pascha' on the day of the True firstfruits, the day that he rose from the dead, kyriaki, the Lord's Day, aka Sunday. (first Sunday after Nisan 14/ Passover). We have no worthy offering to bring to Him but ourselves.

But what day we celebrate and what name we call it is NOT what makes us true Christians. What makes us true Christians is Christ, the giver of grace, the One who can forgive sins, the One who can make the blind see, the One who sets free the captives.

Paul saw that obeying the Law was good, but did nothing to promote righteousness. According to you, Bob, those who obey the Hebrew Law are 'true Christians'- ie, saved by the obedience to Law. This is, of course, error.
Best wishes
O.C.

http://www.stathanasius.org/bible/sept_1_2000.html

If you think that we dont get saved, or have eternal life, through keeping God's Law, then how do you get around Christ saying to the Rich Young Man that if he would enter into life """keep the commandments""" as stated in Matthew 19:16-17?

 

[Orthodox Christian]

[quote="Kasey"If you think that we dont get saved, or have eternal life, through keeping God's Law, then how do you get around Christ saying to the Rich Young Man that if he would enter into life """keep the commandments""" as stated in Matthew 19:16-17?[/quote]
It is not I who says that righteousness comes apart from the Law- it's the scriptures
Romans 3:20-21

In so declaring, Paul was not saying, nor am I suggesting for one second, that we depart from the Law of God. It is not done away with. Rather, we are to "obey all of" Christ's commandments, knowing that our righteousness comes from Him, not from the keeping of Torah.

Do not assume I am making the argument for antinominianism.