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Jipsah

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Y they are NOTHING like easter which was birthed out of antisemitism. Is that untrue as well?
Yeah, unless you'd like to believe that the only reason that anyone would want to celebrate the most significant event in the history of the universe is antisemitism. I call bravo sierra on that.
 
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I can prove this all historically but I only have a moment this morning so I will give a highlight and if you want sources I can give them tonight.

The very early church continued to keep what you probably call the "Jewish feasts." I don't.... but that isn't important. Resurrection day itself, the Sunday after Passover, was set apart by "some" Hellenistic Jews (Greek speaking and influenced) but the vast majority continued to keep the Feasts and the Sunday after Passover is already set apart as the day one would begin their count of Sabbaths to Shavuot (Pentecost). It seems that as each year passed more and more Christians were setting aside Sunday as the day of observance and Easter Sunday as a special day to set apart... but not until after the destruction of the Temple (70AD) and the Bar Kokhba Revolt (132-134AD) did things really change. By 150AD, the "visible face" of Christianity was no longer Jewish but Greek and Sunday observance and the setting aside of the Sunday after Passover was now a majority thing. By the time you get to Constantine, he isn't making a decree to change the Sabbath, he was making law what was the practice of all non-Jewish Christians who by now are a very small minority. What we now call Easter Sunday was called Pascha (Passover) by the Christians. This can be proven historically very easily, it is even proven in Scripture. You can go to Acts 12:4 and see the word "Easter" where the Greek says Pascha. Tyndale was the first to translate pascha in that verse as Easter, whereas in other places he translated it as a word he created, "Passover." The reason for the change in Acts 12:4 is he was trying to differentiate between the pesach (sacrificial lamb and first day of Unleavened Bread) and the day of resurrection. By the way, even Constantine's "Letter on the keeping of Easter" is only translated as 'Easter' to show he was speaking about resurrection day, yet, he used the Greek word for Passover in his letter, Pascha.
I put my coffee into my microwave I went back five seconds and saw myself putting the cup into it.
 
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Romans 14:1-23
As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand. One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.
 
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