a lot of people don't know what to do on that day or why it is the only day Christ said to keep in memorial?
2007-03-08 05:53:53 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes, Nisan 14
2007-03-08 06:03:10 · update #1
That's what I get for watching a Discovery Channel program on Heinrich Himmler's life. It mentioned how much he hated JWs because they would not pay honor to Hitler like other German Christians did.
2007-03-08 06:06:07 · update #2
Christ Jesus himself personally celebrated and explained the significance of that Last Supper to his followers (see Matthew 26:26-29). Apparently Jesus Christ established the occasion to supercede the Jewish Passover, which occurs after sunset on the 14th of Nisan (a month of the Jewish calendar).
(Luke 22:14-16) At length when the hour came, he reclined at the table, and the apostles with him. 15 And [Jesus] said to them: “I have greatly desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer; 16 for I tell you, I will not eat it again until it becomes fulfilled in the kingdom of God.
Sadly, it is only a minority of professed Christians who follow the BIBLICAL pattern for the Last Supper which was established by Christ himself. Sadly, most of Christendom ignores Christ's celebration and instead follow unrelated human traditions which purport to honor Christ, but in ways unconnected with what Jesus Christ established.
Like the former Passover, those Christians who commemorate the Last Supper have also done so on the date corresponding to Nisan 14, which generally falls between late March and mid-April. Interestingly, Christians in the centuries immediately after Christ's impalement were sometimes called "Quartodecimans" which literally mean "fourteen-ers"
There are fundamental differences between the Memorial which Christ Jesus instituted and the so-called "Easter" which Christendom adopted from pagan worship of the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eostre (or Oestre). While most Easter celebrations merely repackage pagan fertility festivals and concentrate on eating, decorating, and frivolity, the Last Supper focuses on the value of Christ's sacrifice and the sober obligation of Christianity.
(Matthew 15:6-9) You have made the word of God invalid because of your tradition. 7 You hypocrites, Isaiah aptly prophesied about you when he said, 8 ‘This people honors me with their lips, yet their heart is far removed from me. 9 It is in vain that they keep worshiping me, because they teach commands of men as doctrines.’”
2007-03-09 07:41:12 · answer #1 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
--Good point, why would not something of that nature take place? If I am not mistaken it takes place April 2, 2007 after sundown!
"Jesus Christ is widely recognized as the greatest man who ever lived. He gave his life for us 1,974 years ago, being killed in a most painful manner. Only hours earlier, when instructing his disciples how to remember his death, Jesus said: "Keep doing this in remembrance of me." Luke 22:19.
2007-03-08 14:04:29 · answer #2 · answered by THA 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think you mean the Hebrew calendar month "Nisan", not the vitamin "Niacin."
Given that kind of scholarly erudition, you must be a Jehovah's Witness!
2007-03-08 14:00:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I haven't heard a thing
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2007-03-16 11:15:49 · answer #4 · answered by Tegarst 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ISN'T NIACIN A DIETARY SUPPLEMENT?
2007-03-08 13:58:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sound like JW propaganda
2007-03-08 14:05:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋
helo....whasup,whasup...hey old man,how are you today..?
2007-03-16 05:13:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋