Posted on 04/21/2011 1:47:18 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
what a bunch of freaks.
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Only if we can crucify Al Gore.
In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Earth Day instead of Easter?, CynicalBear wrote:
The celebration of the Babylonian “Easter” referenced in Ezekiel 8:14, where women are “weeping for Tammuz” which is a reference to the 40 day period of “mourning” which precedes the Babylonian feast of Easter. It was bishop Victor of Rome in the 2nd Century that ignited the Quartodecimian Controversy by threatening churches in Asia who still were celebrating the resurrection in conjunction with Passover on 14 Nisan. It was still at issue in 325 and 365 CE at the Nicean and Laodicean councils where celebration of Passover in conjunction with the resurrection was made “heretical” by the “church’s” anti-Semitic decree.
Ezekiel 8:13 He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do. 14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD’s house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.
In Jeremiah 7:17-20 you can read what God thinks of people worshiping the “queen of heaven.” In verse 20 God said that His anger and fury shall be poured out upon man, beast, trees of the field and the fruit of the ground. God goes on to say in verse 20 that “it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.” All this for worshiping Ashtoreth which is the Old Testament name for Eastre which is where the word easter comes from. What God is telling us here is that people who know that easter is a pagan festival are not going to receive His blessings if they take part in it. What about going to an easter sunrise service? In Ezekiel 8:15-18 we are told that God thinks that is an abomination. Worshipping the sun is a form of idolatry.
Does not the Almighty know in our hearts what we celebrate, regardless of when we celebrate it? This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice in it. Every day is His. Because someone else dedicated this day or that to celebrating something else does not mean that I, or any other Christian, cannot worship my Saviour as I choose. The Father sees into my heart, He knew me even before I was formed, and He knows I am not worshiping a false god.
That whole eighth commandment thing is really lost on you isn’t it?
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