Notes of a Girl Whose Dad Owns The World
My son recently said those words to me, and I was amused because he’s not the only one who has felt that way.
When Jesus told his disciples that he was going to suffer, be killed and on the third day raised to life, Peter took Him aside and began to reprimand Him. “Far be it from you, my Lord,” he said. “This will never happen to you!”
In response, Jesus said, “Get thee behind me, Satan!” Why? Read more…
By we, I mean all of us as Christians. I do not think in terms of denominations- Catholic, Lutheran, Baptist, Pentecostal- but in terms of all of us as the Body of Christ. There is only one Body, so when I say “have we accepted a lie?” I’m referring to all of us who are are believers in Christ. Please look at the following scripture:
“For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” Matthew 12:40.
Today, we as Christians do not celebrate a Jesus who was in the heart of the earth 3 days and 3 nights. Friday evening to Sunday morning is not 3 days and 3 nights. We have been sold a “Christian Calendar” that is at odds with the Bible.
How did we all come to be where we are today? The legacy of those called “church fathers”, that’s how. It may seem that some of us hold more dearly to this legacy than others, but it doesn’t change the fact that we, the Body of Christ, have inherited this legacy, even those who claim to be “Protestants”.
Instead of aligning beliefs and practices with God’s Word, they instead tried to make God’s Word align with their beliefs and practices; Church Tradition.
When they wanted to validate the making of graven images what did they do? They altered the 10 Commandments, removing the part where God explicitly said to NOT make any graven images, and splitting the 10th one into 2, so as to complete ten.
Hence you have the actual 10 Commandments given to Moses (Exodus 20:2-17)—
The amended version has the commandment to eschew graven images REMOVED—
Here are the Catholic Ten Commandments, set forth by one of the church fathers whose writings have blessed me, and I’m sure many of us, St. Augustine:
Some try to dismiss it as a “slightly different numbering” but you can see it for what it is. Bending Bible to suit church tradition, instead of the other way around. We prefer to “unlook” such things, but if it were not important they wouldn’t have gone to such lengths. Wondering what else they left us?
What about Good Friday and Easter?
Easter is derived from the worship of Ishtar, the pagan goddess. Neither the name nor the practice is Biblical. “Easter” did not exist in the Bible church; your Bible should clearly show this, but once again, tampering. When they wanted to validate Easter what did they do? If you use any translation apart from King James Version you won’t find “Easter” in your Bible. In Acts 12:4, King James simply replaced “after Passover” with “after Easter”, a thing which did not even exist in those times (King James also replaced “Ecclesia” with “Church” and in this case the subsequent translations followed suit, but that’s a matter for another day). Verse 3 clearly says “the days of Unleavened Bread”. Other versions stick to the original text which says ” after Passover”, expect that authorised by King James. Sneaking that word in there was meant to make it alright, pagan or not. Fail? Hardly. We’re celebrating Easter, aren’t we?
And once again, in order to validate ‘Good Friday’ and proclaim a Friday crucifixion and Sunday morning resurrection, what must we do? We must condense 3 days and 3 nights into Friday night-Sunday morning, and it must enter by force. Neat, no?
Jesus gave up the ghost, the Bible says, around 3pm on Crucifixion Day, and was buried that evening. He spent 3 days and 3 nights, and by Sunday morning while it was still dark, the women went to the tomb and found he had already risen and was on his journey to Jerusalem! To spend 3 days and 3 nights in the belly of the earth as Jesus said, and be ALREADY risen before daybreak on Sunday morning, He couldn’t have died and been buried on Friday, could He?
The angel at the tomb did not say Jesus rose few minutes ago. He simply said He is risen. We know from Genesis 1 that “the evening and the morning were the first day.” So if he wasn’t there on Sunday morning while it was still dark, and yet had spent 3 days and 3 nights…I’m sure you’ve done the math.
But it’s not important, we say. What matters is that He died and rose, that’s what we celebrate! But it DOES matter. Jesus did NOT lie. He spent 3 days AND 3 nights in the heart of the earth as He said He would. The danger is not so much in the embracing of any one of these seemingly little falsehoods, as it is in rejecting what the Bible actually says in favour of “Church Tradition”.
Exchanging the truth of God’s Word for traditions of men is not a new thing. Even the pharisees did it. We all have continued to celebrate Easter, and use the “church calendar.” Yes, we are used to it. It’s what we were born into. It’s what we have been taught and have always practiced. It is comfortable, it is familiar, but is it TRUE?
Shall we search the scriptures? The Bereans did that and were commended for it. I write in love. If you know better, then you owe it as a duty of love to show us from scriptures too. Beloved pastors, teachers, and Bible students like me, I urge you to speak the truth in love; only when we learn together, and grow together, can we truly stand free in Christ.
Search ye the Scriptures…
Update
I want to thank everyone who took the time to examine this with me over the past one year, sending links and spending time on the phone and on BBM chats, and even calling their parents for answers. I am so proud to be your sister! So here’s what we found altogether: The Bible already tells us that evening and morning are one day for the Jews. That’s how God told them to count. Also, a part of one day is considered one day. They didn’t use 24 hours as we do in Western day counting. So we see people in the Bible (Queen Esther, the Israelites under Rehoboam, etc) saying they were going away for 3 days and then coming back on the third day- whereas we would come back on the 4th day, after 72 hours.
We gathered info from different sources to come to a clear understanding, but someone put everything together in one article, in an even clearer way! I’m so pleased about this, God bless him. Click HERE to see it. Shalom!
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