Posted on 10/04/2011 1:33:17 PM PDT by NYer
If you mean something else by ‘Christian’, more is needed to differentiate: Jehovah’s Witness, LDS, Messianic Jew, etc.
Is that what you mean ?Barrack Hussein Obama claims to be a Christian.
More man-made religion. Let's see what YHvH thinks a church is. YHvH defined what an Ekklesia
Ekklesia is not a building nor How utterly self-centered
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
and narcissistic.
Or self-loving, self-admiring, self-absorbed,
self-obsessed, conceited, self-centered,
self-regarding, egotistic, egotistical, egoistic;
was in Deuteronomy 4:10. 'Assemble the people to Me,
It is all who are called out by Him
that I may let them hear My words
to hear YHvH speak to them.
a international corporation
nor international cartel.
From the Letter of the Emperor (Found in Eusebius, Vita Const., Lib. iii., 18-20.)
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shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
to all those not present at the Council.
When you correct someone as many times as he has been corrected and he continues to post that falsehood, well, in the real world we call that telling a lie.
Same standard yes. The term Christian applies to a small set of beliefs for about a billion people simply as a definition, a correlation.
If you or Obama do not hold this set of beliefs more distinction is needed where they vary.
Do you vary from the Trinitarian belief and belief that Jesus is God?
that sure does describe your group's ability to attack all Christians who believe Jesus Christ is Lord, God and SAvior.
Nah, he belongs to the same type of religion as your group, uri -- groups that deny Jesus Christ is God
You seem to enjoy prevarication. I find no scriptural support for the pantheon There is only Echad YHvH (one Elohim). Yah'shua is YHvH's Shekinah Glory. The Roman "church" claims to be followers of the Christ, I have answered this more than once.
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
of gods and goddesses of the Roman "church".
however they have impugned His WORD.
Nor is it ruled by Judaizers who have been banned from the Church going back to St. Paul and the 12.
NonChristians who rail against the Church don't get to define Christianity.
Actually you haven’t — your cult rejects Christianity completely.
I realize since you have affected a Hebrew screen name, and refer to Our Lord with the Hebrew version of His given human name, that you are probably offended by St. Constantine's deprecating remarks about Jews and following the Jewish calendar. Do remember, though that the Emperor was writing to the Church at a time shortly after, by his decree, the persecutions of the Church had ceased, persecutions that had been carried out by both pagan Romans and by Jews (whose religion has the status of religio licta (a permitted religion) within the Empire from before the time of Our Lord's Incarnation). And he wrote at a time long enough after Christ's early ministry and the Jewish Council of Jamnia that those who identified as Jews, rather than Christians, were by definition, deniers of Christ and enemies of the Gospel, rather than simply adherents of the Old Covenant who had not heard the Gospel.
The conciliar decision on the dating of Pascha was entirely reasonable: date it based on the Church's own calculation of when the Old Covenant Passover would fall, rather than relying on calculations done by Christ-denying rabbis, and keep the Feast of the Resurrection on the Sunday (which day is called in Greek, the lingua franca of the Empire by that time, Kyriakie, the Lord's Day) following the Church's date for Passover. (Symbolically, the commemoration of the Israelites passover from bondage to freedom precedes the commemoration of Christ's passover from death to life in the liturgical cycles, just as it preceded and was type in history of the latter.) Why should the Church, the Mystical Body of Christ, rely on calculations done by those who deny Christ?
I realize since you have affected a Hebrew screen name, and refer to Our Lord with the Hebrew version of His given human name, that you are probably offended by St. Constantine's deprecating remarks about Jews and following the Jewish calendar. Do remember, though that the Emperor was writing to the Church at a time shortly after, by his decree, the persecutions of the Church had ceased, persecutions that had been carried out by both pagan Romans and by Jews (whose religion has the status of religio licta (a permitted religion) within the Empire from before the time of Our Lord's Incarnation). And he wrote at a time long enough after Christ's early ministry and the Jewish Council of Jamnia that those who identified as Jews, rather than Christians, were by definition, deniers of Christ and enemies of the Gospel, rather than simply adherents of the Old Covenant who had not heard the Gospel.
The conciliar decision on the dating of Pascha was entirely reasonable: date it based on the Church's own calculation of when the Old Covenant Passover would fall, rather than relying on calculations done by Christ-denying rabbis, and keep the Feast of the Resurrection on the Sunday (which day is called in Greek, the lingua franca of the Empire by that time, Kyriakie, the Lord's Day) following the Church's date for Passover. (Symbolically, the commemoration of the Israelites passover from bondage to freedom precedes the commemoration of Christ's passover from death to life in the liturgical cycles, just as it preceded and was type in history of the latter.) Why should the Church, the Mystical Body of Christ, rely on calculations done by those who deny Christ?
The Roman Pontiff and the assembled bishops OBTW Uri'el is one of the Arch-angels. Uri'el warned Noah of the impending flood Is your name written in the Lamb's Book of Life ? Seek YHvH in His WORD. Read it again.
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
rejected the Holy WORD of G-d as laid out in
Leviticus as to YHvH's timing of Passover and
replaced it with a Pagan feast.
and the destruction of mankind.
In that case, I think your quarrel is with the Holy Apostles, and not with St. Constantine or the bishops who assembled at the First Ecumenical Council:
Christians, at least Christians of gentile ancestry, who by the fourth century were essentially all Christians, had not kept the Mosaic Passover since the decision of the Apostolic Council recorded in the Acts of the Apostles, as its observance was a part of the Law not laid on gentile Christians by the council. The replacement of the Mosaic Passover with the Christian Pascha had already been well established when the Council of Nicaea met. The only thing that was done at Nicaea in that regard was to uniformize the date on which Christians kept the feast: before that some based their observance on the Jewish lunar calendar, others on the Roman civil calendar, some kept it on a fixed date, some transferred it to Sunday (the normative day of Christian worship from Apostolic times as attested by both the Didache and the Apology of St. Justin the Philosopher.)
It is quite bizarre of you to characterize the observance of a feast in commemoration of Our Lord’s triumph over death in His Glorious Resurrection from the dead following his Saving Passion and Death as a “Pagan feast” even if you have a quarrel with how the Harps of the Spirit (as we Orthodox call the Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council) directed the Church to compute the date of its observance. Pagans keep no festivals nor fasts to honor Christ, nor do Jews, only Christians do. Object if you wish that the Jewish Passover was replaced with a Christian feast, for indeed it was. But as you acknowledge Jesus of Nazareth to have been the Messiah, in Greek the Christ, why is that objectionable, unless would have Christians observe the whole law of Moses?
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