On May 9, 11:29=A0am, "SongBookz" <songbo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Raymond" <rwkn...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On May 8, 2:34 am, 2...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(=95R. L. Measures) wrote:
> > > Your reply is total idiocies. I sure there were many thousands of
> > > gods people followed many had sacrifice blood based and so on.
>
> > ** agreed
>
> > >Which
> > > has nothing to do with Jesus or a pagan Sun-God play of words it is
> > > SON of GOD not SUN.
>
> > ** Mithra was the Persian sun God.
>
> > >Jesus came to set such silly teachings like
> > > yours to rest and make the way for mankind to find the real GOD! Dec
> > > 25, was not and could not be the birthday of Jesus
>
> > ** Agreed
>
> > > it was only a day
> > > that was picked out of 360 days, no matter what day one picked
people
> > > like you would find some reason to mock it.
>
> > ** Picking the birthday of the sun God Mithra was not a good choice
sinc=
e
> > Jesus of Nazareth was likely born in October.
>
> If you lived at that time it was the best day to pick, as it was
> really three days and the people were drunk that did wor****p Mithra
> and so no one cared what Christians were doing as they were to far
> gone. =A0 Remember followers of Jesus were no permited to wor****p and
> this would be the best time to do that. =A0Then just because some other
> god or thing was done by some other group does not mean they are doing
> the same. =A0I can go to church at the same time a group are in a bar
> getting drunk, everyone knows church and bar have nothing to do with
> each othere. =A0It really does not matter what month Jesus was born,
> what does matter is he was born. =A0One day is just as good as any
> othere.
I am not sure what program you are using as the above is what I said,
and below is not, but there is no way to see that here.
>
> By the time they decided to celebrate Christ's Mass to discourage people
> from celebrating the "birthday of the sun," Christians were not being
> persecuted but had become the state religion. =A0Later pagan customs
were
> incor****ated into it (trees, yule log, etc.) =A0Even in America, the
Purit=
ans
> didn't celebrate Christmas and hardly anyone did in America for a long
tim=
e.
There was no such celebrating of any sun by christians. The became
the State religon later on, and when they picked the 25 they were
being persecuted State untill the ruler had a vision. History shows
that time table. Then I do not recall ever reading about America not
celebrating Christmas.
>
> Christianity has borrowed lots of pagan symbols over the centuries.
=A0The=
> little"t" cross which was the "Mystic Tau" a symbol of Tammuz and can be
> traced back centuries before that. =A0Steeples adapted from the Egyptian
> Obelisk which was part of sun wor****p. =A0The Trinity - practically all
pa=
gan
> deities were part of a trinity. =A0and so on...
More like Catholics not Christians did such.
> > >Christianity never
> > > adopted any God Mithra's or what ever name one wants to use.
>
> > ** History says they did.
>
> No it does not! =A0You will not find in any true Christian church or
> history any word of wor****p of Mithra's as their God.
>
> Of course not, but in many cases, Christians have just changed Mithra's
na=
me
> to Jesus.
Never happen!
> > >You seem
> > > to forget it was God that made all days and pagans just used them.
So
> > > when a Christian takes back the day, you all try to make it sound
like=
> > > the pagan owned it. Sorry that ideal does not hold water. God made
> > > the days long before any pagan lived. You also don't seem to know
> > > much about true history or the teachings of the Jew that is real and
> > > theirs not some book of pagan teachings that you seem to follow or
> > > want others to believe which are just lies and falsehoods.
>
> > ** paganization of Christianity did not come until 3-centuries after
the=
> > curcifixtion.
>
> I can agree with some of that, only Paul did say even in his day that
> false teachers were already preaching falsehoods.
>
> If you have access to Vine's Expository Dictionary, there's a good
article=
> on this under "Cross."
I have access, so what?
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