happy easter my glp friends

Everything is based on the sun and moon and elements.

Everything.

Happy Easter to you too

((hugs))

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Happy Easter from beautiful Phoenix!

You're right that the calendar is off but it is indeed Easter. Easter correlates with the Spring Equinox just like all of the false god holidays that center around the sun such as christmas.

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Most Christians are unaware that Easter is a pagan festival surreptitiously merged with Christianity. Noah’s son, Ham, married a woman called Ashtoreth. In some cultures, Ashtoreth is called Ishtar, which is transliterated in English as Easter. Ashtoreth made herself “the Queen of Heaven;” the goddess of fertility and became an object of worship. This idol worship of Ashtoreth, later camouflaged in Christendom as Easter, is specifically forbidden in the scriptures.

Accordingly, Samuel counselled Israel to forsake Ashtoreth (Ishtar) worship: “Then Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, ‘If you return to the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtoreths from among you, and prepare your hearts for the LORD, and serve him only; and he will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.” (1 Samuel 7:3).

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I used to think that too when I was in the KJV is infallible stage of my life. But, no, it simply means Passover. Pascha is only and can only be translated as "Passover". Easter was probably inserted by the Roman Catholic translators of the KJV.

God bless you and your family OP!

He was crucified on Passover, that was not the day of his resurrection, but rather that resurrection was at the end of the sunset that ended the week of the Feast of the Unleavened bread. But perhaps you knew that anyways.

Act 12:4 Vulgate quem cum adprehendisset misit in carcerem tradens quattuor quaternionibus militum custodire eum volens post pascha producere eum populo

pascha -- passover... the Latin even transcribes the Greek (that gets transliterated into the English as "pascha".

The only thing that tells us what is "right by God" is the Bible. You don't need special credentials to read it and understand it. In fact, those that have so called "credentials" from some seminary school are the most brain washed people I've ever seen.

It is a historical fact that pagan peoples celebrated a festival around the spring equinox where they worshiped Ashteroth (a general term for a feminine goddess) such as Ishtar or Oester. It is a historical fact that they used rabbits and eggs as a symbol of fertility and that they prayed to the East in the morning (sun-rise service) to their false gods.

It is a Biblical fact that God tells his people not to keep the customs of the pagans. He didn't say "take their customs and holidays and Christinaize them".

Deuteronomy 12:30 - Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their god? even so will I do likewise.

Leviticus 18:27 - (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled:) 18:30- Therefor shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the Lord your God.

The English transliteration of what you are typing as "Ishtar" is.. get this, "Ishtar" go figure.

And the English transliteration of what you type as "Ashtoreth" is amazingly, "Ashthoreth".

Neither of these are the English word, "Easter".

Nice try... try again.

And even then in that usage of Acts 12:4 it is not the day of the resurrection that is Passover.. read that again..

Act 12:4 ASV And when he had taken him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to guard him; intending after the Passover to bring him forth to the people.

Indicating AFTER the Passover was over. Passover was 24 hours long... Sun-set to sun-set. The resurrection occurred after the end of not only Passover, but after the Feast of Unleavened Bread. That Feast was to last Seven Days.

You assert: "Easter was probably inserted by the Roman Catholic translators of the KJV."

Not likely as the Vulgate has it as Pasch, and the Catholic English translation has:

Act 12:4 DRB And when he had apprehended him, he cast him into prison, delivering him to four files of soldiers, to be kept, intending, after the pasch, to bring him forth to the people.

On the other hand the Luther German as it as:

Act 12:4 GLB Da er ihn nun griff, legte er ihn ins Gefängnis und überantwortete ihn vier Rotten, je von vier Kriegsknechten, ihn zu bewahren, und gedachte, ihn nach Ostern dem Volk vorzustellen.

As to the KJV's translation there I could really suspect one Francis Bacon's handiwork in inserting "Easter" in the place of "Passover".

None the less that Resurrection was not even on Passover, nor even in the case of the KJV's mis-tranlation, not even on Easter, not by the text given.

In context that verse Acts 12:4 is speaking of Peter's imprisonment (being imprisoned by Herod), and Herod had intended to keep Peter in prison until after the Passover. Hence this verse does not indicate at all that Jesus was resurrected on Passover or even after the Passover. This verse is speaking about Peter.

Oh, interesting. Thanks for that! I stand possibly corrected.

Oh, yes, Shakespeare!

Right, He wasn't resurrected in Passover. He was resurrected on the first day of the week.

We do proclaim His death (1 Cor 11:26), every time we die to 'self' (Paul says, 'I die daily.') and speak Truth, for which we will be figuratively crucified and therefore resurrected daily to do it all again. Resurrection (Anastasis) is feminine gender. It is speaking of the church!

Hymaneus and Philetus were teaching a gangrene doctrine, teaching the resurrection was over. Lie! We die and resurrect daily in Christ! In so doing, we do shew His death and resurrection!

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Christians remember Christ's resurrection in baptism, not Sunday or Easter.

"Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life." Romans 6:4

Happy Easter to you as well!

To undergo a baptism meant to undergo a death.

Baptism is in blood, not water.

We must die to self and be hated and crucified by the world.

Baptism comes from baptizo, a verb, and it means to (permanently) cover with a (red) stain or a dye. This is why Noah covered the ark in pitch (a reddish substance).

The way churches do it is false. They didn't bury people in the ground in the first century- they were laid in a tomb. Why do they dunk people under water?

You're thinking of proselyte baptism, which was not commanded of God, that was their Halakah (oral tradition).

John the Baptist, of all people, contrasted his water baptism with the "fire" baptism of the Holy Spirit. Paul was glad he hadn't water baptized many people, and he said that God did not send him to baptize but to preach the gospel.

So if water baptism were required or even recommended, the NT has a very strange way of saying it; in fact, it says the opposite. Our baptism is by the Holy Spirit, not water.

Happy easter everyone.

Happy Easter:

Eas·ter/ˈēstər/
noun
the most important and oldest festival of the Christian Church, celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ and held (in the Western Church) between March 21 and April 25, on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the northern spring equinox

Origin of easter
Middle English estre, from Old English ēastre; akin to Old High German ōstarun (plural) Easter, Old English ēast east

Your signature is an interesting choice of verse.

Woe (a cry of damnation) on those who put darkness for light? Like those who would partake in a pagan festival (darkness) and try to paint it with Christian-ese?

Plus, angels were always male.

Just FYI...

The word, "Easter" is in the Bible exactly one time, only. That is what the Strong's Exhaustive Concordance is for. It was written for the King James Version.