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EASTER?

The birth of Jesus is always, celebrated on the twenty fifth day of December. Not on any other day under any circumstance. YET...........Men are unable to pinpoint the date Jesus was murdered. That means they are unable to determine exactly the date he resurrected. How are they able to conclude His purpose if they are uncertain of his murder??
Unstable religious experts are more concerned about the position of the moon or the timing of the equinox than the integrity of the event. The adjustable date can be manipulated to have the murder on Friday so the resurrection will be on Sunday. Always. People can rest on Saturday and not be tired and weary when they attend Easter Sunday services. Easter is the day a truly tired, weary, beaten, disrespected, falsely accused, spit upon and cursed man allegedly, resurrected himself after being slaughtered on Friday...Good Friday..
On Easter Sunday, people will attire themselves with fancy, fresh clothing. They'll dress in slick suits with a white shirt and tie. They will assemble in GOD'S HOUSE, decorated with lilies and roses. The air will be laden with expensive perfume, Women with painted faces, will model skirts that hide nothing......., Inside the LORD'S HOUSE!!
One has to ponder, what did Jesus have for clothing on that day. A bloody shroud?? A bandage drenched in myrrh?? “Oh, you say, Angels were there to minister to him”. Think of waking in a damp, dreary stone tomb.
So Daniel, after testifying, you “alone without assistance chose “God” and asked Him for wisdom which you say He gave you in abundance..., I ask you......What is the true, real, non-allegorical, meaning of that despicable behavior?? Should not men hide in shame, grieving??
All those confessing Jesus died for their sins, are just as guilty of driving those nails, placing that crown of thorns, spitting in His face, and piercing his side, as those who did so!!!
It seems Easter is basically a feast, held on an adjustable date, determined by the position of a moon or occurrence of an equinox!!!!

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Yes, Iam Thatiam, the point is we all become guilty "by the law". So... Grace & trUth came by Jesus→Christ to help u become a more graceful, merciful, peaceful U, like unto the perfect 'aner' man called Christ. Yet there is also beseeching of ambassadors for Christ to reconciled to God. Why? Perhaps because the only true God & the only wise God cannot lie nor die.

Indeed Iam Thatiam, Easter has many conundrums, perhaps so many it should be cancelled, like VD (Valentines Day) got cancelled in 1967 for being an orgy of consumerism; Yet six countries still celebrate it in ignorance of such.

So it seems ignorance is the problem, and awareness (by humbly ask the God who does not upbraid for His wisdom) is the solution. For, because grace will not force itself on any like law does, only then, when asked for trUth, the Spirit of grace and truth will begin providing revelations, along with study hints; But not do all your home-work for u; Rather act as "guide", to guide u into all trUth, as noted in John 16:13. It's a process, of learning & also unlearning erroneous things believed...

For me, it helped to first learn Easter/Passover Week had 2 sabbaths & 2 preparation days, so therefore reported crucifixion (murder) was Wednesday (not Friday), to coincide with kill & prepare a passover lamb, and have 3 days & 3 nights in tomb, prior to resurrection before dawn on first of week. YET even learning about such a "high" sabbath1 can leave one high-mindead. For then resurrection can be of Son of man (not Son of God), and have nasty Acts, like kill (not forgive) Ananias & Spahirra, bringing great fear (not love nor grace) upon the whole church, like in Acts 5, where apostles still assembled in "Solomon's porch" of a law temple. So...

It helped me to also learn resurrection 'appearances can be deceiving', and why there's no mention of Son of man beyond Acts 7:56, only Son of God, is because the only true God has only one Son, and it's not Son of man. For in Romans 3:4 (greek) it says Let God be true, but EVERY 'anthropos' man a liar; And Son of man='anthropos'.

So the biblical narrative takes us from 2SonsJesus to 1SonChrist, so that it becomes Grace and peace (not Law and confusion), with Romans noting we have peace with God THROUGH our Lord Jesus→Christ, in Christ is the end of the law.

Yes, Iam Thatiam, the point is we all become guilty "by the law", even all liars when still 'anthropos' kind of man (not yet 'aner' kind of man), and all murderers if we still believe in replacement theology. For as 2Cor 5:14 notes, the love(God) of Christ 'constraineth" even us, and because we thus judge (by f-law) that if one died for all, then were "all dead". All dead is not our goal. Rather our goal is NONE should perish, by put away law, and because law was a surely die lie, which God never said.

So as a modern sci-fi movie called In Time themes: nobody should have immortality if even one person has to die. Makes sense, if God has no partiality, and neither makes sides nor ever takes a side in any war.

So, perhaps when we have the "all truth" (no lie) of the God of "all grace" (no law), then it may become crucifiction instead of crucifixion=arguments...

Seems why 1Timothy (epistle from Laodicea Colossians told to also read) begins six mentions of "God our Saviour"... lastly called "the only wise God"; And by Jude who notes look for the MERCY, and prior to enter Revelation apocalypse, which has no mention of mercy...

God our Saviour, is as if the 3rd Saviour of:
1) Jesus = Saviour of Israel............Good
2) Christ = Saviour of the world........Better
3) God our Saviour......................Best=Rest of the story.

God our Saviour will have "much more" than Jesus, and even more than Christ of thru J→C. In 1Timothy 2:4 God our Saviour will have all men('anthropos') saved (by Christ = Saviour of the world), AND come to the knowledge('epignosis') of the truth. Epignosis knowledge is higher spiritual knowledge than 'gnosis' knowledge (also rendered as "science"), which 1Cor 13:8 KJV notes shall "vanish away" when it comes to what "never faileth": "charity" (not love) of these three: "faith, hope, charity"=also 3rd of 3, and allegory called "greatest" of great, greater, greatest.

For even "greater love" (aka sacrifice) can wax cOLD, by many, as noted in Mt 24:12, as if still on the down side of Cold -LukeWarm- Hot(fervent) in the learning game of seek & find... find grace, in time, to help u be U.

So I now focus myself and others on 3rd of 3 things; For when it comes to THREE things, then 2/3=0.666 to infinity of "nothing" yet. Eg:
I am = TheWay(1/3), TheTruth(2/3), AND TheLife(3/3).

So the AllTruth (3/3) is more than TheTruth (2/3).
Interesting stuff to notice, ponder, study, and discuss.

Grace, mercy, peace=3rd of 3. So let's not leave out the mercy. For if only Grace & peace=2/3, then perhaps peace offered in Rev 1:4 can get taken away in Rev 6:4, to then have nasty things like an ISIS crISIS we now see in the news, which now reports 'worst' scenarios along with DeathTolls.

Grace, mercy, peace from
God, our Father, and Jesus Christ our Lord.

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Wisdom is determined by the quantity of, and how one administers knowledge. “Interesting stuff”.
Let us learn about Easter!
The reason for the season of Easter, is a result of a frantic effort to connect Jesus to the Prophets and the Jewish religion. Theologians modified his murder and “resurrection” into a new version of the old Passover. They “determined” Jesus was a symbol of the sacrificial Passover Lamb described in Exodus Chapter 12.
To mingle Old Testament ideology with New Testament doctrine is reckless. To suggest Christianity is related to Judaism is even more reckless. Christians copied and then remodeled the “God” of Israel to meet the specifications of their newly founded religion. After introducing a new and improved “God”, zealous religious salesmen (first Christian theologians), raced to find any words in the Jewish Bible that could be remotely linked to their new and improved version. Fifty years after the death of Jesus, Saul of Tarsus decided to symbolize CHRIST as the sacrificial Passover lamb. (first Corinthians Chapter 5: 7 & 8). OR.....A HUMAN SACRIFICE!
Saul and his proselytes, grasped any and all words that might suggest the advent of a “Christ” (another character copied from Israel) which they could apply to the life and death of Jesus. They settled on a subject close to the heart of Judaism, PASSOVER. (Exodus 12: }. Theologians made murder and “resurrection” seem as important to Christians, as Passover is to the Jewish religion.
The power and focus in the Passover is not the lamb. Nor does the focus or power abide in the blood. The PURPOSE of the lamb was to supply NOURSHIMENT for a hasty flight out of Egypt. The PURPOSE of the blood was to MARK a door post. Salvation was granted NOT by the LAMB, NOT by the BLOOD but by a sign (token), painted with blood, on a door post. Exodus 12: 13.
The integrity of the Lamb's health was necessary to avoid any one becoming ill during their escape from Egypt. The First Jewish Passover is a well thought out strategy and was successful, through obedience.

The fourth Month, April was once called “Eostre” after a goddess of that name. From that name, came the word Easter and was applied to the Christian version of the Jewish Passover in the early eighth century.
Easter and the holidays related to it are “movable” feasts and have no fixed date on the Julian or Gregorian calenders. It's date is determined on a calendar similar to the Hebrew Calendar. The first Council of Nicaea (325 AD/ CE) determined the rules to calculate the variable date for Easter.
In 2016 Christian Churches once more considered making Easter a fixed date, but still.???