Paganism

It has been hidden in our churches and homes for many years.
It's time to take the blinders off our eyes and see the truth. For the
truth shall set us free. These idolatrous things break God's commandments.
Let me tell you, it's not a bondage to keep God's commandments, it sets us free
from the Devil. Transforms us into children in the Kingdom of God. When you break the
commandments you are in disobediance to God. What is disobediance? SIN. And when
you step into sin, you allow yourself to step out of the Kingdom of God, out of the covering
of the Holy Spirit, and open yourself up to the Kingdom of Darkness.
The commandments CAN be kept, ONLY by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Some commandments to remember: (found in Exodus, chapter 20 NIV)


1st: "You shall have no other gods before me."

2nd: "You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven
above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down
to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing
the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those
who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me
and keep my commandments."

3rd: "You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD
will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name."

4th: "Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.
Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God.
On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter,
nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien
within your gates. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and
the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day.
Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy."

If you are still interested, read on...

(Click on the desired topic)

Christmas
Easter
Valentine's Day
Sunday Rest

(Suggested books for research: Just about any encyclopedia, and "Too Long In The Sun" by Richard Rives.)

(I used the Microsoft® Encarta® Encyclopedia 2001 for my research.)


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"Christmas"
Is Believed to have originated in the 4th Century
As a "christian" substitute for the pagan celebration
of the winter solstice. Before Christmas became "christian"
The romans would honor Saturn, the ancient god of agriculture.
They would do this in a festival called Saturnalia, which lasted
seven days(17-24th) and included the winter solstice(December 25th).
During Saturnalia, Romans postponed all work, war, and exchanged gifts.
Lots of the Romans would also celebrate the lengthining of daylight following
the winter solstice by taking part in the rituals to glorify mithra, the ancient persian
god of light.

Mithraism was similar to Christianity in many respects,
for example, in the ideals of humility and brotherly love, baptism,
the rite of communion, the use of holy water, the adoration of the
shepherds at Mithra's birth, the adoption of Sundays and of December 25 (Mithra's birthday)
as holy days, and the belief in the immortality of the soul, the last judgment,
and the resurrection. Mithraism differed from Christianity in the exclusion of
women from its ceremonies and in its willingness to compromise with polytheism.
The similarities, however, made possible the easy conversion of its followers to Christian doctrine.

"Mithraism." Microsoft® Encarta® Encyclopedia 2001.
© 1993-2002 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

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"Easter"
According to the Bible Jesus was crucified on the eve of Passover.
The only thing biblical about easter is the name it derived from:
Astarte/Ashtaroth. (See Judges 10:6)

Easter, a Christian festival, embodies many pre-Christian traditions.
The origin of its name is unknown. Scholars, however, accepting the
derivation proposed by the 8th-century English scholar St. Bede, believe
it probably comes from Çastre, the Anglo-Saxon name of a Teutonic goddess
of spring and fertility, to whom was dedicated a month corresponding to April.
Her festival was celebrated on the day of the vernal equinox; traditions associated
with the festival survive in the Easter rabbit, a symbol of fertility, and in colored
easter eggs, originally painted with bright colors to represent the sunlight of
spring, and used in Easter-egg rolling contests or given as gifts.

"Mithraism." Microsoft® Encarta® Encyclopedia 2001.
© 1993-2002 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

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"Valentine's Day"
It probably derives from the Accient Roman feast of Lupercalis.
Lupercus, one of the Roman's gods was called upon to protect
them from the fierce wolves that lived in the woods in those days.
A festival held in honour of Lupercus was celebrated on February the 15th.
The festival was celebrated as a spring festival. Their calender was different
at this time, with February falling in early springtime. One of the customs
during this festival was name-drawing: On the eve of Lupercalis roman girls
would write their names on slips of paper and put them in a jar. The young men
would draw a name and the person who's slip they drew would be their sweetheart
for the year. It is believed that the festival was changed to the 14th and renamed
Valentine's Day after a priest named Valentine was martyred because in that time
Claudius II was emperor and believed that married men wouldn't make very good
soldiers as they would want to stay home with their families. So Claudius ordered
that men didn't marry. Valentine would secretly marry young couples until he was
arrested, put in jail, and put to death on the 14th, the eve of Lupercalis.
As rome became more "christian", Valentine was made a saint and the priests
moved the spring festival to the 14th instead of the 15th.

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"Sunday Rest"
This is in direct violation of the 4th commandment:

Sunday, first day of the week. Its English name and its German name ( Sonntag) are
derived from the Latin dies solis, "sun's day," the name of a pagan Roman holiday.
In the early days of Christianity, Sunday began to replace the Sabbath and to be
observed to honor the resurrection of Christ. Sunday was instituted as a day of
rest, consecrated especially to the service of God, by the Roman emperor
Constantine the Great. Since the 4th century, ecclesiastical and civil legislation
has frequently regulated work on Sunday and service attendance. In the United States,
laws limiting business activity and amusements on Sundays have become known
as blue laws.

"Sunday." Microsoft® Encarta® Encyclopedia 2001.
© 1993-2002 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

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