I know. It was intentional and I explained why in my previous response to you. You don't even know what you're talking about. A lot goes over muslim's heads because they don't study or understand the Bible even a little. They have no background knowledge at all so its pointless exchanging words with you. Goodbye.
This is completely false. 77% of American converts to Islam were formerly Christian.
Apart from this, there are endless threads on this forum alone demonstrating high Muslim engagement with the Bible and Christian theology, with the most recent thread being @billy t's thread on Paul.
Then they never understood the Bible either. Being Christian doesn't mean they automatically understand the Bible. The Bible is a Holy Book that needs to be studied prayerfully. None of us Christians fully understand the Word of God because we are mere mortals but many supposed Christians don't study their Bibles as they should. That gives Satan an opening to confuse and lie to us in many different ways.
Billy t never knows what he/she is talking about either because again its clear he/she has no understanding of the subjects they post on. He/she has no background knowledge of the Bible, God, prophets, Bible writers, etc. Coming at Christians and attacking the Bible when one doesn't even know what they are talking about is pointless. A lot of what he/she posted was completely false. I told him/her as much. Of course they've convinced themselves they know what they are talking about but they really don't. Goodbye.
It is a mistake to write off anyone who has studied Christianity and not accepted it as being unable to understand it. You must accept that Christianity is not an entirely coherent religion. You say that God is three, and yet one; that God caused Mary (peace be upon her) to give birth to himself; that God killed himself (comitted suicide) because he was not powerful enough to forgive humanity for its sins. Apart from this, there are numerous contradictions and inaccuracies in the Bible that prove it cannot all be God's word. Christians themselves do not agree with one another about many things.
In "The Two Babylons" Hislop outlines the number of things the Catholic Church borrowed from paganism. No wonder so many people confuse Christianity with that. The unholy mixing of pagan practices with Christianity led to the Reformation.
Personally I've never left the states. I was 31 years old when i reverted to Islam. That's 31 years of reading the bible as both of my parents were Christian. I still have 2 Christian brothers and 2 Christian sisters today out of 6 siblings.
I'm not talking about Catholicism, I'm talking about doctrines that pretty much all Christians believe being pagan. Did you miss the parts about both Christianity and this pagan religion believing God has a child, God comes to earth as his child, people must worship a holy trinity, and so on?
I mean you could actually try to make an argument but I guess this tactic is easier. Just say "you don't understand!" and leave it at that.
The bible says Easter is just another name for the feast of unleavened bread.Summary: Many Christians believe Easter originated as a holiday to celebrate Christ's resurrection.
Easter is known for its bunny rabbits, colored eggs, hot cross buns, and the return of springtime. But where did Easter come from?
Few people realize that Easter is not about the resurrection of Christ.
The only time the word “Easter” is found in the Bible (Acts 12:4), it is there by mistranslation. The word in the original Greek is “Passover.” Jesus died at the time of the Passover feast, but the Passover is not Easter and Jesus did not die at Easter time. Easter is an ancient spring festival. Long before the time of Christ, the pagan goddess Ishtar, or sometimes known as Astarte or Ashtoreth, was worshiped in different countries. Our modern practice of sunrise worship originates from the pagan festival honoring Ishtar. The story of Easter also helps explain how Sunday became sacred and the origin of virgin worship.
The Scheme of Imitation
Centuries before the birth of Christ, Satan encouraged people to have religious beliefs and practices that would imitate the coming Saviour’s resurrection.
This was a brilliant strategy that kept people from recognizing and appreciating the plan of salvation. Because pagans had similar beliefs of a “resurrection” before Christ, it is much easier to say that Christ’s resurrection was just another version of the same old pagan story from long ago that has nothing to do with reality or a plan of salvation of any kind. Many scoffers use this type of reasoning to explain away the Bible’s truths.
The sacrificial system was also imitated by pagans, but perverted to be all about appeasing a wrathful God instead of a loving God that became flesh and died willingly in our place. Satan has always counterfeited and perverted the truth because he knows that if he does so, many will be led to disbelieve the Bible and not choose Christ.
The early pagan practices and beliefs about Ishtar and the resurrection prepared the world for the religious apostasy which would occur after the time of Christ. The pagans believed in a god that was resurrected each spring on Easter—a day which was dedicated to Ishtar, the mother goddess. She was also called the queen of heaven and supposedly interceded with the gods on behalf of humankind. This precise belief has been applied to Mary by the Roman Catholic Church, but it is as pagan as it gets, and has no basis in the Bible whatsoever.
The mother goddess has had many names throughout the various pagan religions in history. She has been known as Astarte, Ishtar, Ashtoreth, Cybele, Rhea, Demeter, Ceres, Aphrodite, Venus, Diana, and Freya.
Easter did not originate for the purpose of celebrating Christ, but rather for the purpose of worshiping the mother goddess Ishtar. Because worshipers of Ishtar presented her with two fertility symbols—eggs and rabbits—these became part of the Christian Easter celebration. Because sunrise at the beginning of spring was the holiest day in the Mithraic calendar (next to December 25), the practice of Easter sunrise services continued on into Christianity.
Because the Ishtar celebration was held each spring on a Sunday, close to the vernal equinox, the ascension of Christ was changed from 40 days after the time of Passover (as told us in the Bible) to the annual Easter celebration. All this began in paganism, with the Ishtar and Tammuz legend.
Many Christians celebrate Easter as the day celebrating the resurrection of Christ, but the truth is that the celebration of Easter actually comes from paganism.
https://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception_pagan_Catholic_Easter_Ishtar
If the Bible said this it would be lying since it tells us the ceremonial feasts and festivals from the Old testament were nailed to the cross. Easter is not mentioned in the Bible either.
The Jews who continued to celebrate the feast of unleavened bread and other feasts after Jesus' death had not accepted Christ as the Messiah. All ceremonial law ended after Jesus' sacrificial death on the cross because they all pointed to His death. The feasts, festivals, and sacrifices as laid out in the Old Testament including the Sanctuary in the wilderness and the temple in Jerusalem, were a shadow of things to come.
Hebrews 9 talks about the earthly sanctuary and its limitations. It also talks about the Heavenly Sanctuary and Christ as our High Priest and Mediator of the New Covenant and how He entered the Most Holy place in the Heavenly Sanctuary with His Own blood because the blood of animals can never atone for our sins. Verse 12 says, "Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption."
Yes, but it states a testament doesn't begin until after the testator is dead, and relys on blood. The new testament didn't begin until after the death of Jesus Christ.
The New Testament arose out of the life, ministry, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ. Just as the Sanctuary and Temple ceremonial feasts and festivals were about Jesus' life, ministry, death, resurrection, ascension and second coming.
Jesus fulfilled the feast days forever. They are never to be celebrated again.
Can you quote the Bible on that please?
Jesus was crucified on preparation (he's the Passover lamb) day, the day before passover which always falls on a Thursday. He arose three days later on Sunday in our calender. We know the day it all happened, because the bible tells us. Since we clearly know the date, there's no speculation whatsoever. I certainly celebrate it, and always will. If you don't want to that's fine and up to you, but please quit calling it pagan when it has absolutely nothing to do with paganism.
I think where people get mixed up is when the later, established church fixed days for certain celebrations, they sometimes hit on the idea of doing so on a date previously celebrated as a pagan holiday. If you have kids but don’t like Halloween, celebrating something diametrically opposed to it instead does not provide the new thing celebrated with a “pagan root” in and of itself. Further, taking previously pagan symbols and adding fresh meanings to them does not mean an idea is “based” on the previous pagan meaning, rather it is superseded and negated.
