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How Did Pagan Customs Mix into Christmas and Easter?
It began hundreds of years ago, when the Church changed the Bible. . .


The "New Testament": Pagan revenge

Between G-d's own miracles and the Jewish teaching of His Word, the pagan priesthoods of Egypt, Greece, and Rome were steadily losing their power over the gentile populations. They decided to fight back by creating a new religion, one that would claim to be the fulfillment of the Hebrew "Old Testament," yet would bring back the pagan lies in a new disguise.

Thus the "New Testament" was written, in Greek rather than Hebrew, and attached to the original Hebrew scriptures to try to change their meaning back toward paganism.

The "New Testament" tried to change G-d from One, as in the Hebrew scriptures, into a "trinity" as in Egyptian cults or the eastern religions of Hinduism and Buddhism. It described Jesus as G-d in a human body, like the pagans always described Pharoah and other wicked kings. It declared G-d's Law to be a "curse" that no one can truly obey, announced that there must be a "mediator" between G-d and man, and pretended that salvation could now be achieved outside the Law.

To blind the gentile nations, the "New Testament" also warned people not to learn from the Jews, declaring that Israel no longer possessed the true, complete Word of G-d.

In the Bible, the book of Daniel warned of an evil power--a false religion--that would believe in the true "G-d of fortresses... plus a god its fathers did not know." This religion would "speak bizarre words about the Most High, wear out the holy ones (the Jews), and plan to change the festivals and the religious Law."7 The Christian Church has indeed replaced Passover with Easter (the pagan holiday of Astarte and Ishtar) and Hanukah with Christmas (the pagan winter holiday).

Since then, Christian paganism has expanded to include Christmas trees, Easter eggs, and so forth.


http://www.noahide.com/paganism.htm

2007-04-22 04:58:51 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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Doesn't surprise me much. Priests during the Middle Ages would change The Bible at their convenience.

2007-04-22 05:02:21 · answer #1 · answered by Dylan H 3 · 3 1

While the website is intresting, you need some sort of Historical evidence. Pagan traditions are in Chirstian holidays because the pagans converted to christianity and retianed their culutural holidays. I think it's odd that everyone places this severe consiiracy theory into paganism and christianity. This talks about the Egyptians, well, the Evil kings had been long replaced by the Roman Emperor. Most Egyptian religion had long since become a small factor with the exception of Isis. I doubt a religion that had lost it's own language and had adopted Greek was attempting to subvert the bible of a religion that had not yet become the major force in Western Society as you claim. The Bible was not even a recognized book until the 400's. As for the Germans changing the book (where your Easter Eggs come from) they were not converted to Chirsitianity until after the fall of Rome, as the Germans moved into the Roman empire that process began, but only after they conqured the Romans. In fact for several generations Chirsitianity disapeared from parts of Europe as the Germans hated the Romans and their religion. This seems to be a bit of people making stuff up, and not real history. Without the aid of a time machine however, I guess it could be possible. As a pagan however, I find it suspect. I think you should really look at Paul, St. Paul, and all his letters to the various churchs of the time, which are now part of the New Test. He is the one to blame for a lot of the changes you don't seem to like, and I think his first name was Saul of Tarsus, but I could be wrong their too. I believe it was the early chirstians who seperated themselves from the Jewish faith, even though there were sects who wanted Chistianity to follow the old Jewish ways, but those sects lost out. Especially at the Council of Nicea where the Trinitarian view won out over alternative views including the Aryian and Coptic beliefs, which of course became anathma to the one Chirsitan chuch under the Roman empire and later the Byzantine Empire.

2007-04-22 07:20:54 · answer #2 · answered by ryorama 2 · 0 0

God existed long before Abraham.

In the Jewish Legends we learn that God went to all the peoples of the earth and asked them to accept the Torah. Only the children of Jacob accepted the Torah from God. This is why the children of Jacob were beloved by God.

If we believe this then we can also accept that "pagans", knowing what was in the word of God, took bits and pieces and adapted them to their own beliefs.

Over time the children of Jacob rejected God, twisting the Torah so that it was used to reject the Messiah. God destroyed the nation of Israel for two thousand years because the people twisted the Torah to their own purposes in opposition to God.

God gave the entire world the Torah, through the evangelism of the Christians and the printing of the Holy Bible. So that no man could claim ignorance of scripture God also bestowed upon all those whose faith is in the Messiah and the Torah the Holy Spirit, that they may understand scripture without the Sanhedrin or any person teaching them.

People can learn about God directly from God.

Islam has not distributed the Torah as it was given to the children of Jacob in the desert through Moses. Islam did not spread the law of God. Christianity did.

Islam is not the religion meant to spread the Torah to the gentiles.

Christianity did spread the Torah.

2007-04-22 05:10:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

Actually, the idea that there is only "One" God is an Egyptian idea, not a Jewish one. Jews did not have a nation for a very long time, so their idea was borrowed, I think, from an older civilization. The revelation to Moses is the only redeeming Jewish thing. Anything before that is not Jewish, but worldly. Adam was not Jewish, nor was Abraham, although he is called the father of Jews. They were just people who lived in the land. Infact, the word "Jew" was not made up until the reign of King Juda a few generations before Jesus was born. Before that, they were called Hebrews or Israelites, but in truth, they had no nation and no name until King David. They are not called "Davidites" however.

2016-05-21 01:04:00 · answer #4 · answered by julieta 3 · 0 0

It's true. Jesus' message has been distorted. It's simple, LOVE ONE ANOTHER. He followed Hebrew Law, we should as well, and remember to love one another. You can follow in His footsteps and hope to be as kind and good, but the exploitation of His message and teachings have been abominable and it is really too bad.

2007-04-22 05:03:28 · answer #5 · answered by Hot Coco Puff 7 · 2 1

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