To: sourcery
The biblical answer is it doesn’t matter:
Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. 17 These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.
Colossians 2:16
34 posted on
04/16/2017 2:14:30 PM PDT by
antidisestablishment
( We few, we happy few, we basket of deplorables)
To: antidisestablishment
It doesn't matter?
Really ?
Most of the Old Testament is about God destroying cities because they did not KEEP his Holy Days !
What Devil crawled u p inside your brain?
The
Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. V, p. 224 :
"The English term, according to the Ven. Bed (De temporal rations, I, v) relates to Eostre,a Teutonic goddess of the rising light of day and spring
that the Apostolic fathers [the apostles of Christ] do not mention it and that we first hear of it principally through the controversy of the Quartodecimans are purely accidental"
Easter eggs, the
Catholic Encyclopedia (ibid. p. 227) :
"The custom may have its origin in paganism, for a great many pagan customs, celebrating the return of spring [and therefore directly related to SUN-worship], gravitated to Easter.
The egg is the emblem of the germinating life of early spring
the Easter rabbit lays the eggs, for which reason they are hidden in a nest or in the garden.
The rabbit is a pagan symbol and has always been an emblem of fertility
In France, handball playing was one of the Easter amusements, found also in Germany
The ball may represent the sun, which is believed to take three leaps in rising on Easter morning"
"On Easter Monday the women had a right to strike their husbands.
On Tuesday the men struck their wives, as in December the servants scolded their masters
In the northern parts of England the men parade the streets on Easter Sunday and claim the privilege of lifting every woman three times from the ground, receiving in payment a kiss or a silver sixpence.
In Neumark (Germany) on Easter day the men servants whip the maidservants with switches; on Monday the maids whip the men.
They secure their release with Easter eggs.
These customs are probably of pre-Christian origin."
"The Easter Fire is lit on the top of mountains (Easter Mountain, Osterberg) and must be kindled from new fire, drawn from wood by friction; this is a custom of pagan origin in vogue all over Europe, signifying the victory of spring over winter
the church adopted the observance into the Easter ceremonies, referring it to the fiery column in the desert and to the resurrection of Christ"
Read
Deuteronomy 12:29-32 and
Ezekiel 8, all of it, AND
OBEY GOD !
50 posted on
04/16/2017 2:58:27 PM PDT by
Yosemitest
(It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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