Posted by Sola Sisters
It really is ok to smudge Easter! My Christian friends, submit is no scarcity for you to be alarmed that you are participating in a pagan ritual to exaltation the sun god Baal or the pagan goddess Ishtar if you support to smudge Easter. For associates curious with these thinking, they were afterward overtly held and educated by Christian writer Ralph Woodrow, who promoted the proposal of Easter as substance a pagan holiday that Christians hardship not feature in. This proposal the same promulgated by Christian historian Alexander Hislop, and which we wrote about close to.From the spread inexperienced goal Easter -- Is It Pagan? by Ralph Woodrow, who has since poles apart his views:
"Inhabit who intersect the celebration of Christ's reappearance at the Easter toughen, sometimes make the wretched claim that associates who do so, are really worshipping the Sun- god Baal! They quote Ezekiel 8:14-16 about 'women in tears for Tammuz' and men worshipping 'the sun just before the east.' This, it is claimed, was the real origin of Moving Friday and Easter Genesis Services! But submit is no powerful channel. If a Christian group chooses to handle a special service at dawn to spread the good tidings of an transparent grave and resurrected Christ, it is not pagan. Previously all, it was at dawn that the women came to the grave and naked it was empty: amid very to the front in the hours of daylight the lid day of the week, they came unto the unsmiling at the upward of the sun' (Mk. 16:2). No Christian has ever gone to an Easter Genesis Wear out to exaltation the Sun-god Baal. We look up to Christians who expectation to stand for the purity of the gospel, who do not need paganism in the church. But we hardship be sure that what we bar is absolutely pagan, so that in pulling up weeds, we do not squeeze up the wheat the same."In closing, let me official that I am not advice any of my man Christians to go vs. their consciences and smudge Easter (or Christmas, for that ram) if they are not recognizable enactment so. I right ask that they not deplore associates of us do see to freedom to feature in these holidays, as we smudge our Liberator who came, lived, died and was raised from the dead so that we all force amble in clearness of life.
Beyond Money
Tradition From Hislop: A Strait To Investigation Skill
Stake of Hislop's book
Issue by Ralph Woodrow
Woodrow's book, The Babylon Connection?
A point-by-point turning down of some of the chief claims by Hislop
Is Easter a pagan word?
Why Christmas on Dec. 25?
To Christmas or Not To Christmas? That Is The Defect
Should Christians Work it Christmas? (Dr. John MacArthur, GTY)
Christmas Does Not Develop Pagan Origin
Should We Develop A Christmas Tree? (Got Questions?)
Christmas is Moral A Christianized Pagan Holiday? Not So Enduring.....
4-PART String BY DR. RICHARD P. BUCHER
Christmas Is Not Pagan, Division 1, Most people
Christmas Is Not Pagan, Division 2, Answering the Argument: "Christmas is manifestly pagan having the status of submit is neither Biblical job nor earlier period for celebrating Christ's origin."
Christmas Is Not Pagan, Division 3, Answering the Argument: "The lid Christians never observed the celebration of Christ's origin until ruler Constantine in 313 AD lawfully tolerated Christians."
Christmas Is Not Pagan, Division 4, Answering the Argument: "The realize of Christmas (December 25), and its a choice of background all come from pagan sources. As a result Christmas is pagan."
