What is Lent and does it appear in the New Testament?

Answer 1

Lent is one of the most important seasons of the church year because it is a time of penitence, an introspective period during which we take stock of our lives and our relationships to discover and change what we must to prepare for Easter and experience the spiritual renewal that comes when we engage in this type of “making right” activity. So, during Lent we each follow the example of Jesus by sacrificing our own will to the purpose of God.

Starting on Ash Wednesday, the Lenten season includes 40 weekdays and five Sundays before Holy Week and the culminating triumph of the Resurrection at Easter. Lent has two major focuses:

The first is on baptism, which in the early church occurred only at Easter. The Sunday readings provide a short course on the meaning of baptism.

The second Lenten theme—one with which most of us are now more familiar—is that of fasting and renunciation. This theme recalls Jesus’ 40 days in the wilderness, and through them the discipline of self-denial reflecting the sacrifice of our will to the purpose of God.

Answer 2

Lent is the forty days before Easter. The word means "spring" in old English. Christians use this time to prepare for Easter by praying, abstaining from a favorite food, giving to charity, or making an effort to be a better person somehow. Catholics are also encouraged to abstain from meat on Fridays during Lent.

It is not in the New Testament because it was founded by the leaders of the early church. I believe it was invented in the Middle Ages but I'm not totally sure.

You will not go to hell if you eat meat on Friday or if you eat the food you gave up for Lent. These are just suggestions to remind us of the sacrifices that Jesus made for us.

Answer 3

No, Lent does not appear anywhere in the Bible, because it is a pagan observance that the Catholic Church adopted into its traditions. Lent is a 40-day period of fasting for Tammuz, the son of Semiramis, the wife of Nimrod, who was the great-grandson of Noah. Tammuz, like Nimrod, was a great hunter. This family was deified in the generations following the Flood and the Tower of Babel. All sun-gods and goddesses of all cultures since then are derived from these three people. Tammuz was killed by a wild boar, which is why, at the end of Lent, which is Easter (Ishtar - another name for Semiramis), people eat the traditional ham. Easter is also a pagan fertility holiday. Bunnies, chicks and eggs symbolize fertility, and they used to dip eggs in the blood of sacrificed infants. This is the gory origin of our habit of coloring Easter eggs.

Answer 4

The word lent comes from the Anglo-Saxon word lencten which means spring, which was derived from the Anglo-Saxon word lenctentid (pronounced LENG-ten-teed), which means the time of lengthening and flowering. The entire spring season was called Lenctentid. The ancient Anglo-Saxons (and other pagans) celebrated the return of spring with rioteous fertility festivals commemorating their goddess of fertility and of springtime, Eastre. In fact, the word Easter is derived from the Scandinavian Ostara and the Teutonic Ostern or Eastre, both pagan goddesses.

The word lent is not in the Bible. It is pagan. Lent is just one of many things the Catholic Church has used to contaminate Christianity.

Answer 5

NO it is in the old testament and is not necessary to practice today. I am really rusty on Catholic teachings so I don't want to tell you wrong by telling you what I think it is.