Idol worship on Easter

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We have such an awsome God. You would think all humans would lister to His guidance for us and trust in it enough to follow it. Scripture tells us to celebrate His Son giving us the means for eternal life. The celebration is called Passover and it is very specific.

2,000 years ago a Roman Emperor named Constantine called many Christian Fathers together to establish a Christian religion. Their instructions were to do whatever they thought best except do like the Jews decided. The church fathers had gotten rid of the Jewish Christians who knew scripture. The fathers knew philosophy, gnostic, myths and such but little scripture. They didn't even have a New Testament yet. The Jews knew scripture. These men didn't even try to follow scripture when they established Christianity.

Passover was scratched, instead a celebration called Easter was created by them. They mixed in worship of the fertility goddess of springtime they were used to with eggs, bunnies, and Easter baskets. I am sure Chonstantine would be chucklish that his idol worship ways that were put in without God involved at all are still celebrated 2,000 years later but God instructions are ignored. Even the name for the celebration has nothing to do with scripture.
 
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[video=youtube;QfbAMXPbSms]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfbAMXPbSms[/video]
 
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D'oh! And here I thought we were celebrating the atoning death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ!

... how utterly ignorant of me.
 
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Blik said:
We have such an awsome God. You would think all humans would lister to His guidance for us and trust in it enough to follow it. Scripture tells us to celebrate His Son giving us the means for eternal life. The celebration is called Passover and it is very specific.

2,000 years ago a Roman Emperor named Constantine called many Christian Fathers together to establish a Christian religion. Their instructions were to do whatever they thought best except do like the Jews decided. The church fathers had gotten rid of the Jewish Christians who knew scripture. The fathers knew philosophy, gnostic, myths and such but little scripture. They didn't even have a New Testament yet. The Jews knew scripture. These men didn't even try to follow scripture when they established Christianity.

Passover was scratched, instead a celebration called Easter was created by them. They mixed in worship of the fertility goddess of springtime they were used to with eggs, bunnies, and Easter baskets. I am sure Chonstantine would be chucklish that his idol worship ways that were put in without God involved at all are still celebrated 2,000 years later but God instructions are ignored. Even the name for the celebration has nothing to do with scripture.
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Blah blah blah blah blah. Get over it
 
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Blik said:
We have such an awsome God. You would think all humans would lister to His guidance for us and trust in it enough to follow it. Scripture tells us to celebrate His Son giving us the means for eternal life. The celebration is called Passover and it is very specific.

2,000 years ago a Roman Emperor named Constantine called many Christian Fathers together to establish a Christian religion. Their instructions were to do whatever they thought best except do like the Jews decided. The church fathers had gotten rid of the Jewish Christians who knew scripture. The fathers knew philosophy, gnostic, myths and such but little scripture. They didn't even have a New Testament yet. The Jews knew scripture. These men didn't even try to follow scripture when they established Christianity.

Passover was scratched, instead a celebration called Easter was created by them. They mixed in worship of the fertility goddess of springtime they were used to with eggs, bunnies, and Easter baskets. I am sure Chonstantine would be chucklish that his idol worship ways that were put in without God involved at all are still celebrated 2,000 years later but God instructions are ignored. Even the name for the celebration has nothing to do with scripture.
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Yeah, but you get chocolate bunnies and marshmallow peeps. And jelly beans.
 
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Time for the umpteenth holiday bashing thread. That dead horse has been beaten flatter than a pancake.
 
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You know, I use to be a pagan and followed this holiday as Alban Eilir and this is the same as Eostar for Wiccans. This is actually in the month of March not in April and I can tell you the practices are way different than what Christians practice at Easter. So for someone to come off and say we are practicing a pagan holiday is pretty much off his/her rocker. Everyday is the Lord's and just because Christians decide to get together with their families on certain days of the year doesn't mean we are following a Pagan tradition.
 
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Blik said:
We have such an awsome God. You would think all humans would lister to His guidance for us and trust in it enough to follow it. Scripture tells us to celebrate His Son giving us the means for eternal life. The celebration is called Passover and it is very specific.

2,000 years ago a Roman Emperor named Constantine called many Christian Fathers together to establish a Christian religion. Their instructions were to do whatever they thought best except do like the Jews decided. The church fathers had gotten rid of the Jewish Christians who knew scripture. The fathers knew philosophy, gnostic, myths and such but little scripture. They didn't even have a New Testament yet. The Jews knew scripture. These men didn't even try to follow scripture when they established Christianity.

Passover was scratched, instead a celebration called Easter was created by them. They mixed in worship of the fertility goddess of springtime they were used to with eggs, bunnies, and Easter baskets. I am sure Chonstantine would be chucklish that his idol worship ways that were put in without God involved at all are still celebrated 2,000 years later but God instructions are ignored. Even the name for the celebration has nothing to do with scripture.
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If you have to explain the original holiday in such details, don't you think that pretty much covers that no one celebrates it that way anymore or for that reason? Kind of like giving a history of the 8-track player to explain why no one should have MP3's. (Or it for MP4's now? Admittedly, I still enjoy old school, just was never big on 8-tracks.)
 
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If you have to explain the original holiday in such details, don't you think that pretty much covers that no one celebrates it that way anymore or for that reason? Kind of like giving a history of the 8-track player to explain why no one should have MP3's. (Or it for MP4's now? Admittedly, I still enjoy old school, just was never big on 8-tracks.)
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Exactly, AMEN
 
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Fixed this for you.
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Yeah, but you get chocolate, chocolate bunnies, chocolate, chocolate solid eggs, chocolate, chocolate hollowed eggs, chocolate, chocolate cream eggs, chocolate, chocolate peanut butter eggs, chocolate, marshmallow peeps, chocolate... and jelly beans.
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Blik said:
We have such an awsome God. You would think all humans would lister to His guidance for us and trust in it enough to follow it. Scripture tells us to celebrate His Son giving us the means for eternal life. The celebration is called Passover and it is very specific.

2,000 years ago a Roman Emperor named Constantine called many Christian Fathers together to establish a Christian religion. Their instructions were to do whatever they thought best except do like the Jews decided. The church fathers had gotten rid of the Jewish Christians who knew scripture. The fathers knew philosophy, gnostic, myths and such but little scripture. They didn't even have a New Testament yet. The Jews knew scripture. These men didn't even try to follow scripture when they established Christianity.

Passover was scratched, instead a celebration called Easter was created by them. They mixed in worship of the fertility goddess of springtime they were used to with eggs, bunnies, and Easter baskets. I am sure Chonstantine would be chucklish that his idol worship ways that were put in without God involved at all are still celebrated 2,000 years later but God instructions are ignored. Even the name for the celebration has nothing to do with scripture.
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Anyone who can't even post basic factual information on when Constantine lived, and when the church councils were, doesn't deserve the time of day. BASIC!

"Constantine the Great (Latin: Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus Augustus;[SUP][2][/SUP] Greek: Κωνσταντῖνος ὁ Μέγας; 27 February c. 272 AD[SUP][1][/SUP] – 22 May 337 AD), also known as Constantine I or Saint Constantine (in the Orthodox Church as Saint Constantine the Great, Equal-to-the-Apostles),[SUP][3][/SUP] was a Roman Emperor from 306 to 337 AD. Constantine was the son of Flavius Valerius Constantius, a Roman Army officer, and his consort Helena. His father became Caesar, the deputy emperor in the west, in 293 AD. Constantine was sent east, where he rose through the ranks to become a military tribune under the emperors Diocletian and Galerius. In 305, Constantius was raised to the rank of Augustus, senior western emperor, and Constantine was recalled west to campaign under his father in Britannia (Britain). Acclaimed as emperor by the army at Eboracum (modern-day York) after his father's death in 306 AD, Constantine emerged victorious in a series of civil wars against the emperors Maxentius and Licinius to become sole ruler of both west and east by 324 AD."

So 2017- 337= 1640 years ago.

In other words, Constantine did not rule the Roman Empire at the time of Christ. By eliminating 337 years, you have wiped out a lot of history!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_the_Great
 
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As the scriptures states do not be conformed to the patterns of this world. While the world defines Easter as bunnies, eggs etc You can celebrate it in your own way by celebrating the ressurection of the lord.
 
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Further, there is the question of what Constantine did! Did he really "establish a Christian religion?" (Not sure why that is so bad!)

In fact, what he did was end the terrible persecution of the Christian church for once and for all, and he brought together Christian leaders to fight some heresies, including the Arian heresy, that Jesus was not divine, only a man, at the Council of Nicaea.

"The first Roman emperor to claim conversion to Christianity,[SUP][notes 4][/SUP]Constantine played an influential role in the proclamation of the Edict of Milan in 313, which decreed tolerance for Christianity in the empire. He called the First Council of Nicaea in 325, at which the Nicene Creed was adopted by Christians. "

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_the_Great

However, he was baptised on his death bed, so he did not live his life as a Christian. His motives may not have been pure, I leave that to God, but he certainly made one of the most positive moves for Christians in over 300 years, despite not being a Christian although I believe his mother was a Christian.

Try and get your facts straight before you post such nonsense, ok?
 
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Angela53510 said:
Further, there is the question of what Constantine did! Did he really "establish a Christian religion?" (Not sure why that is so bad!)

In fact, what he did was end the terrible persecution of the Christian church for once and for all, and he brought together Christian leaders to fight some heresies, including the Arian heresy, that Jesus was not divine, only a man, at the Council of Nicaea.

"The first Roman emperor to claim conversion to Christianity,[SUP][notes 4][/SUP]Constantine played an influential role in the proclamation of the Edict of Milan in 313, which decreed tolerance for Christianity in the empire. He called the First Council of Nicaea in 325, at which the Nicene Creed was adopted by Christians. "

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_the_Great

However, he was baptised on his death bed, so he did not live his life as a Christian. His motives may not have been pure, I leave that to God, but he certainly made one of the most positive moves for Christians in over 300 years, despite not being a Christian although I believe his mother was a Christian.

Try and get your facts straight before you post such nonsense, ok?
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Um? Angela? You forgot, "But there is chocolate!"
 
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Angela53510 said:
Further, there is the question of what Constantine did! Did he really "establish a Christian religion?" (Not sure why that is so bad!) In fact, what he did was end the terrible persecution of the Christian church for once and for all, and he brought together Christian leaders to fight some heresies, including the Arian heresy, that Jesus was not divine, only a man, at the Council of Nicaea. "The first Roman emperor to claim conversion to Christianity,[SUP][notes 4][/SUP]Constantine played an influential role in the proclamation of the Edict of Milan in 313, which decreed tolerance for Christianity in the empire. He called the First Council of Nicaea in 325, at which the Nicene Creed was adopted by Christians. " https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_the_Great However, he was baptised on his death bed, so he did not live his life as a Christian. His motives may not have been pure, I leave that to God, but he certainly made one of the most positive moves for Christians in over 300 years, despite not being a Christian although I believe his mother was a Christian. Try and get your facts straight before you post such nonsense, ok?
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Why display such contempt? There's nothing wrong with correcting brothers and sisters but we are to do it out of love.
 
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Why display such contempt? There's nothing wrong with correcting brothers and sisters but we are to do it out of love.
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I didn't see any contempt in her post
 
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QUOTE=Magenta;3051325]You are rewriting history... [/QUOTE] The information I gave comes from the reports of the Christian Councils that are kept by the Catholic Church. Are you saying that these reports are in error?
 
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