I do wish you WOULD stand for truth! hAnd to discuss intelligently with a goal of truthfully learning about God.
There are many pros and cons to what Constantine did, but there are no pros and cons to what God is about.
You seem to have read something about Constantine, but only the good things that God used him for. In order to learn history as it happened or to read about a person's life work it cannot be a white washed history and it cannot be only the blackest part of his life.
My report of history only had to do with his changing how the Lord asks us to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. I do not think it is right for you to take these simple facts to make it into a way to be personal, to call me a liar or any of the other personal putdowns you are making. This should be a discussion of scripture and history. I rounded off numbers, you made it into something WAY beyond rounding off. The Nicene Council lasted three years, you have used this to insinuate how smart you are and dumb I am. It is not right how you are posting. It goes a long way beyond saying only one side of what Constantine did should ever be written of.
So for someone to come off and say we are practicing a pagan holiday is pretty much off his/her rocker
all you did was sweepingly condemn Constantine and his Councils
Scfripture tells us in John 14:23 If any one loves me he will keep my word.Celebrate Easter, or don't celebrate Easter. Celebrate it one particular way, celebrate it another particular way, or celebrate it not at all. Celebrate it on one particular day, every day, or never days. Celebrate it by eating a ham, a lamb, or bunnies, or even nothing at all.
It really does not matter either way according to my Bible.
Colossians 2:16
[SUP]16 [/SUP]Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
OOps, lots of fingers in the wrong placers. It should be Easter baskets are celebrating the fertility goddess, and that celebration has been Christianized so now it is celebrating rebirth.Scfripture tells us in John 14:23 If any one loves me he will keep my word.
Post after post is nsaying to ignore the word about celebrating the resurection. If it is pointed out tyat eggs, bunnies, and Easter baskets are celebratomg tje ferto;otu gpddess ot os saod tjat bas been Christianized so now it is celebrating rebitrth. Even thouh there are no instructions given us to celebrate Easter, not even a mention of that name except when the . ''KJV translated the word for Passover as Easter.
I see no posters at all interested in learning how and why the celebration of Easter began. I have been personaly attacted and put down royally for mentioning it.
Now it is brought out that it really doesn't matter to God. Perhaps God was just blowing in gthe wind when we were instructed?
I have. Sadly.I've never seen people bowing before chocolate eggs or easter bunnies..
That, my friend, is the absolute truth.In the Lord's eyes, His people should celebrate His birth and resurrection EVERY DAY not just once a year where people get all religious and start talking perpendicular
Challenge for ya bud... post up some scripture verses from the New Testament that instructs Christians to celebrate "Easter" with bunny rabbits that lay eggs.
I'll bet'cha you cannot find any instruction from the Lord concerning this or Christmas for that matter.
In the Lord's eyes, His people should celebrate His birth and resurrection EVERY DAY not just once a year where people get all religious and start talking perpendicular
I know if I see a bunny rabbit laying eggs, I'm going to beat him with my baseball bat![]()
Yes he did... good job!
This is how we got the rcc... with the blood of the saints running out her mouth!
The Christmas Catholic thing I never understood in that they supposedly celebrate the birth of Jesus by saying "Merry murder of Christ"? quite strange indeed..
as long as folks do not confuse the easter bunny and santa clause with the reality of faith in the Only Son of God..no problem, but to teach Santa Claus has anything at all to do with the birth of our Savior, or an Oestra Bunny has anything to do with His victory ofer death for all who believe is just a shame, and not of God.
Oestra a German goddess of fertility, ergo the eggs, from which the word Easter is derived....
Well the word Easter comes from quite a few traditions. Celtic is Eostar.
Time for the umpteenth holiday bashing thread. That dead horse has been beaten flatter than a pancake.
Perhaps the encylclopeias I researched the etymology of Easter in 1969 and since are in error.....God bless
Scfripture tells us in John 14:23 If any one loves me he will keep my word.
Post after post is nsaying to ignore the word about celebrating the resurection. If it is pointed out tyat eggs, bunnies, and Easter baskets are celebratomg tje ferto;otu gpddess ot os saod tjat bas been Christianized so now it is celebrating rebitrth. Even thouh there are no instructions given us to celebrate Easter, not even a mention of that name except when the . ''KJV translated the word for Passover as Easter.
I see no posters at all interested in learning how and why the celebration of Easter began. I have been personaly attacted and put down royally for mentioning it.
Now it is brought out that it really doesn't matter to God. Perhaps God was just blowing in gthe wind when we were instructed?