by Fred the Fundamentalist
I can’t hold it back anymore. I’ve got to point out an area of compromise that many Christians are involved in. We just celebrated the resurrection, and everyone keeps calling it “Easter.” Don’t you all know that the word “Easter” comes from the pagan goddess Eostre? You should call it Resurrection Day. Otherwise, you’re compromising, and compromising is sinning. To say “Easter” is to sin.
And while we’re on the subject of recent calendar compromise, what’s the deal with everyone giving something up for lint? First, I thought that was a catholic thing, and as you know, catholics are evil. But it’s also really messed up. I mean, who would give something up for lint? I’ve got plenty of that in my belly button. I don’t need to trade anything for it.
And finally, let me offer a third proof that this “church calendar” thing is a bad idea - a compromise with catholics and with evil. Lots of people went to a worship service last Thursday, and I heard them calling it “Monday Thursday.” Monday Thursday? That’s just confusing! It can’t be both Monday and Thursday! And God is not a god of confusion.
9 responses so far ↓
1 Jon // Mar 28, 2008 at 9:08 am
Fred, you’re crazy. Go back to work on Law and Order.
2 Jeremy // Mar 28, 2008 at 9:19 am
Brilliant. I love it.
3 Mike F. // Mar 28, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Best post yet, Fred. It is impossible to disagree with you.
4 Dan // Mar 28, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Brother Fred,
This will be, no doubt, earth shattering to you…but the word “Easter” is actually in the Bible! Check it out:
Acts 12:4 (KJV)
…And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people…
5 lonelypilgrim // Mar 28, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Yeah Fred. Dan stole my thunder. Easter is in that version that God dropped from heaven in 1611. All the New Age versions translate that word as Passover.
6 Travis Prinzi // Mar 29, 2008 at 8:25 am
Dan and lonelypilgrim, Fred is so stunned by this realization that he’s reeling. It may be some time before he can respond…
7 Banner Kidd // Mar 29, 2008 at 10:07 am
To Dan,
This might be “earth shattering to you” but the word translated easter is pascha and is really Passover. This is a mistranslation. Don’t believe me? Go to the Strong’s Lexicon and you can find it for yourself. Fred is right about easter. But further than that we should be celebrating the Passover. It was at Passover that Yeshua was crucified, actually the preparation day for Passover. Passover is in April this year so you have HIM risen a month early. The Feasts of Yahweh are tied to the work of Messiah and keeping thoses Moedim (appointed feasts) is what HE commanded. Why did HE command them? Because they are all about the Messiah Yeshua (Jesus, as HE is called by professing christianity)!
My friends you need to wake up to the fact that our fathers have told us lies! The Torah of Yahweh is the Word of Yahweh and HE has never changed and neither has HIS Word. Yeshua is the purpose of Torah. Embrace Torah and embrace Yeshua Messiah - They are the same!
8 Travis Prinzi // Mar 29, 2008 at 11:00 am
Banner Kidd, you’re aware this is satire, right?
The reason Dan made that comment is because Fred’s position is that the KJV is the only entirely accurate translation.
But to the point you raise: There’s a whole lot of exceedingly-overly-superlatively literal stuff going on in your thinking there. First, there’s nothing incorrect about calling him “Jesus,” anymore than there’s anything incorrect about “Passover” instead of “pascha.” It’s simple transliteration across languages.
But to the more important point: If Jesus redefined Passover, which he did on the night that he was betrayed, then we should observe it as Jesus taught us. Jesus is the fulfillment of Torah, which contained the shadows; but the substance is Christ. We don’t return to shadows once the substance has arrived.
We observe Passover every time we take the bread and cup at communion.
“Embrace Torah and embrace Yeshua Messiah - They are the same!” is an interesting statement in light of Pauline theology.
9 Dan // Mar 29, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Thanks Travis
You responded to Banner Kidd on my behalf quite appropriately…
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