Messianic Israelite
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I was provoked in spirit again this year, as at Easter time I saw Chr-stians carrying a big cross with them through the streets. Why do so many Chr-stians engage in things which are in my opinion completely unbiblical, I wonder. Why do so many refuse to keep the Biblical commandments, yet create practices for themselves which in my opinion Yahweh doesn't want us to do? I still to this day don't know why Chr-stians do this. Why are they carrying a huge cross with them through the streets? Is it to attract attention, to say, look at me? In my opinion to have a sound mind, we have to obey what Yahweh commands.
But what it might be worth to consider is that according to the Bible, Yahshua the Messiah did not die on a cross. In my opinion, Chr-stianity has made an idol out of the cross and therefore is in false doctrine. A shocking surprise to the diligent Bible student is the knowledge that the pagans were using a "cross" as a symbol of their worship hundreds of years before our Savior Yahshua the Messiah was put to death. Variations of the cross may be found associated with almost every sun deity which was ever worshiped. The cross was also used as a sex symbol. In the Holy Land was discovered a corpse of a man put to death exactly as the New Testament writers describe the death which our Savior suffered. The surprising thing, which causes consternation among ecclesiastical circles, was that this person appeared to have been put to death in a different manner than the usual "crucifixion" of our Savior depicted in religious art. The criminal had been put to death on a post, with his hands and feet nailed together.
The word "cross" is entirely foreign to the words which are used in the New Testament for the instrument of torture upon which our Savior was placed. Two words have been translated "cross" and they are "stauros" and "xulon". A "stauros" was an upright post, similar to a fence paling, upon which criminal were nailed for execution (with their hands fixed in an upright position over their heads). The word "stauros" means "to drive stakes". A "xulon" was simply a dead log as distinguished from a green tree. Neither of these words ever mean a piece of manufactured work such as a cross, especially two pieces of timber nailed at right angles to each other. There is nothing in the Greek to even imply two pieces of timber. You may wish to read part of the study on "The Cross and Crucifixion," Appendix # 162 in the Companion Bible. Should we even revere the cross? Just think about this for a moment. If our Savior had been executed by hanging, would we sing lyrics to the "Old Hangman's Noose"? Had Yahshua had been put to death by cyanide, would we sing praises to the "Old Gas Chamber"? Quite ridiculous.
What if you were to learn that what Chr-stians are wearing round their necks, or hauling down the streets at Easter time is in fact a pagan, sun worship symbol? Horrors. My thread title is facetious, yet this is what so many are doing. Do what you want, but forget about the Bible. The Bible tells us to keep the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, yet somehow it has been changed to Easter, yet if we peruse a concordance to locate the word "Easter" in the Bible, we learn that it is found only one time in the King James Version, in Acts 12:4. A close examination of Greek text yields the fact that word "Easter" is not found there. Neither is it found in the Aramaic (Syriac) New Testament. Both texts read "pascha" which is derived from the Hebrew word pesach. It means Passover.
These things have got me thinking and I'm beginning to ask, Is there anyone that actually cares what the Bible says? Sometimes I feel like EliYah who said "10 And he said, I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the Elohim of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword: and I, even I only, am left"
I hope and pray that John 4:23 will be fulfilled in a greater way and soon: "Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father
But what it might be worth to consider is that according to the Bible, Yahshua the Messiah did not die on a cross. In my opinion, Chr-stianity has made an idol out of the cross and therefore is in false doctrine. A shocking surprise to the diligent Bible student is the knowledge that the pagans were using a "cross" as a symbol of their worship hundreds of years before our Savior Yahshua the Messiah was put to death. Variations of the cross may be found associated with almost every sun deity which was ever worshiped. The cross was also used as a sex symbol. In the Holy Land was discovered a corpse of a man put to death exactly as the New Testament writers describe the death which our Savior suffered. The surprising thing, which causes consternation among ecclesiastical circles, was that this person appeared to have been put to death in a different manner than the usual "crucifixion" of our Savior depicted in religious art. The criminal had been put to death on a post, with his hands and feet nailed together.
The word "cross" is entirely foreign to the words which are used in the New Testament for the instrument of torture upon which our Savior was placed. Two words have been translated "cross" and they are "stauros" and "xulon". A "stauros" was an upright post, similar to a fence paling, upon which criminal were nailed for execution (with their hands fixed in an upright position over their heads). The word "stauros" means "to drive stakes". A "xulon" was simply a dead log as distinguished from a green tree. Neither of these words ever mean a piece of manufactured work such as a cross, especially two pieces of timber nailed at right angles to each other. There is nothing in the Greek to even imply two pieces of timber. You may wish to read part of the study on "The Cross and Crucifixion," Appendix # 162 in the Companion Bible. Should we even revere the cross? Just think about this for a moment. If our Savior had been executed by hanging, would we sing lyrics to the "Old Hangman's Noose"? Had Yahshua had been put to death by cyanide, would we sing praises to the "Old Gas Chamber"? Quite ridiculous.
What if you were to learn that what Chr-stians are wearing round their necks, or hauling down the streets at Easter time is in fact a pagan, sun worship symbol? Horrors. My thread title is facetious, yet this is what so many are doing. Do what you want, but forget about the Bible. The Bible tells us to keep the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, yet somehow it has been changed to Easter, yet if we peruse a concordance to locate the word "Easter" in the Bible, we learn that it is found only one time in the King James Version, in Acts 12:4. A close examination of Greek text yields the fact that word "Easter" is not found there. Neither is it found in the Aramaic (Syriac) New Testament. Both texts read "pascha" which is derived from the Hebrew word pesach. It means Passover.
These things have got me thinking and I'm beginning to ask, Is there anyone that actually cares what the Bible says? Sometimes I feel like EliYah who said "10 And he said, I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the Elohim of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword: and I, even I only, am left"
I hope and pray that John 4:23 will be fulfilled in a greater way and soon: "Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father
