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THE USE OF THE WORD EASTER In the year 325 A.D. the Council of Nicaea attempted to change the date for the observance of PASSOVER! Although the Biblically prescribed times for Passover can never be changed, a festival observed on the date set by the council of Nicaea is now observed under the name of a pagan fertility goddess, EASTER. The word Easter, nor any other
pagan title, was used by the council of Nicaea. The Hebrew word for
passover, as written in the transcripts of the Nicaean council, was not
translated. The word for passover was transliterated: The Hebrew
letters were written using the corresponding Latin or Greek alphabet characters,
so the the word would be pronounced in a similar way.
It is extremely
important to consider the fact that Constantine the Great and the Council of
Nicaea intentionally changed the Biblically prescribed time for the observance
of Passover.
There is no doubt that the date they chose was influenced by the Roman celebrations in honor of the sun gods and goddesses near the time of the vernal equinox. Nevertheless, the discussion at the time of the council of Nicaea was about setting a new method for calculating the observance of PASSOVER and not some pagan feast day. A LETTER OF CONSTANTINE
….Constantine, August,
to the Churches.
...When the question arose concerning
the most holy day of Easter (Pascha as written in Latin or Greek) it was decreed by common consent to be expedient, that
this festival
should be celebrated on the same day by all, in every place...
...And truly, in the first place, it
seemed
to every one
a
most unworthy thing that we should follow the custom of the Jews in
the celebration of this most holy solemnity, who, polluted wretches,
having stained their hands with a nefarious crime, are justly blinded in
their minds...
...It is fit, therefore, that rejecting the practice of this people, we should perpetuate to all future ages the celebration of this rite, in a more legitimate order… Let us then have nothing in common with the most hostile rabble of the Jews.
...For what can they rightly understand, who , after the
tragical
death of our Lord, being deluded and darkened in their minds, are carried
away by an unrestrained impulsewherever their inborn madness may impel them...
...it is necessary that this fault should be so amended that we
may
have nothing in common with the usage of these parricides and murderers of
our Lord;
...it should be considered that any
dissension in a business of such importance, and in a religious
institution of so great solemnity, would be highly criminal...
PAGANIZED PASSOVER Many modern day "Christians" suppose that Easter as observed on the dates set you the council of Nicaea was a "Christain" feast, separate from the "Jewish" feast of Passover. Many think that the Jews observed Passover and that the Christians observed Easter. That is not true. In 325 A.D. the Council of Nicaea invented their own "Paganized Passover" which is now known as Easter. The inclusion of the name of the pagan sun goddess Easter in the King James Version of the Bible has caused millions of unsuspecting believers to disregard the Biblical feast of Passover, and, instead follow the inventions of men. USE THE ARROW BELOW TO
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