Christian Discussion Thread IV

[Washington Resistance Army]

If you would like to celebrate the resurrection of the messiah, that is perfectly fine, but please don't include things like decorating eggs or bunnies into it, please.

Whatchu got against bunnies brah?

[Confederate Ramenia]

If you would like to celebrate the resurrection of the messiah, that is perfectly fine, but please don't include things like decorating eggs or bunnies into it, please.

Whatchu got against bunnies brah?

Bunnies have lots of sex

[Washington Resistance Army]

Whatchu got against bunnies brah?

Bunnies have lots of sex

Sex is fun though! We should emulate the bunnies

Really though Efraim, why are you so hung up on stuff like that?

[Efraim-Judah]

If you would like to celebrate the resurrection of the messiah, that is perfectly fine, but please don't include things like decorating eggs or bunnies into it, please.

Whatchu got against bunnies brah?

Bunnies are perfectly fine, but they are unnaturally brought to the center of attention at the same time as the dying of eggs and other pagan things at and near Easter. A celebration associated with the goddess Ishtar.

[Efraim-Judah]

Bunnies have lots of sex

Sex is fun though! We should emulate the bunnies

Really though Efraim, why are you so hung up on stuff like that?

Because its wrong and incorporates worship of other gods into worship of the ONE TRUE GOD. Which the Torah explicitlycondemns.

[Nordonovik]

Bunnies have lots of sex

Sex is fun though! We should emulate the bunnies

Really though Efraim, why are you so hung up on stuff like that?

Yes splendid....Indulge your intrinsic carnal propensities....

[Washington Resistance Army]

Sex is fun though! We should emulate the bunnies

Really though Efraim, why are you so hung up on stuff like that?

Because its wrong and incorporates worship of other gods into worship of the ONE TRUE GOD. Which the Torah explicitlycondemns.

I'm pretty sure I'm not worshiping any ebul pagan gods by eating a chocolate bunny

[Efraim-Judah]

Because its wrong and incorporates worship of other gods into worship of the ONE TRUE GOD. Which the Torah explicitlycondemns.

I'm pretty sure I'm not worshiping any ebul pagan gods by eating a chocolate bunny

If only you knew.

[Sanctissima]

Sex is fun though! We should emulate the bunnies

Really though Efraim, why are you so hung up on stuff like that?

Because its wrong and incorporates worship of other gods into worship of the ONE TRUE GOD. Which the Torah explicitlycondemns.

Nothing personal, but you've really got to loosen up.

If you were to live by every single provision the Torah has, you'd live a very unfulfilled life.

[Washington Resistance Army]

I'm pretty sure I'm not worshiping any ebul pagan gods by eating a chocolate bunny

If only you knew.

Please enlighten me as to how eating chocolate somehow equates to me worshiping x god or goddess.

I'll get my popcorn.

[Sebastianbourg]

I'm Christian now yo #Jesus4Life

What made you reconsider your position on the matter? To my knowledge, you were quite the rabid atheist until very recently. Nevertheless, welcome to the fraternity of peoples united by the beliefs that are habitually discussed in this thread.

[Herskerstad]

I'm Christian now yo #Jesus4Life

Welcome to the family. 'Also sorry for not answering your TG, as recently, things have been hectic. Feel free to re-send it'

[Efraim-Judah]

If only you knew.

Please enlighten me as to how eating chocolate somehow equates to me worshiping x god or goddess.

I'll get my popcorn.

Eostra was the goddess of spring and fertility, and feasts were held in her honor on the Vernal Equinox (aka EASTER). Her symbol was the rabbit because of the animal’s high reproduction rate.

The consumption of a chocolate bunny on that day along with the variety of other pagan activity that is associated with it, suggests that you worship or respect the feasts of other gods and goddesses, and not the 1 true God.

[Angleter]

I'm Christian now yo #Jesus4Life

What made you reconsider your position on the matter? To my knowledge, you were quite the rabid atheist until very recently.

The date, perhaps?

[Efraim-Judah]

Because its wrong and incorporates worship of other gods into worship of the ONE TRUE GOD. Which the Torah explicitlycondemns.

Nothing personal, but you've really got to loosen up.

If you were to live by every single provision the Torah has, you'd live a very unfulfilled life.

On the contrary, Yeshua (Jesus) lived according to the Torah and had a very fulfilling life.


Yeshua said it himself, "if you love me you will keep my commandments."

[Washington Resistance Army]

Please enlighten me as to how eating chocolate somehow equates to me worshiping x god or goddess.

I'll get my popcorn.

Eostra was the goddess of spring and fertility, and feasts were held in her honor on the Vernal Equinox (aka EASTER). Her symbol was the rabbit because of the animal’s high reproduction rate.

The consumption of a chocolate bunny on that day along with the variety of other pagan activity that is associated with it, suggests that you worship or respect the feasts of other gods and goddesses, and not the 1 true God.

Well I guess it's worth pointing out I don't believe in any deities. I was just wondering how exactly it was evil or whatnot.

So should we not have pictures of bunnies or anything? Wouldn't that be pagan idolatry in your mind?

[The Alexanderians]

If only you knew.

Please enlighten me as to how eating chocolate somehow equates to me worshiping x god or goddess.

I'll get my popcorn.

Obviously since the mouth can be used for carnal pleasure the movements of chewing simulate that on the sinfully dark and delicious chocolate bunny that you are now violating with your mouth. In short you're doing naughty things to the choco-bunny. *nods*

[Efraim-Judah]

Eostra was the goddess of spring and fertility, and feasts were held in her honor on the Vernal Equinox (aka EASTER). Her symbol was the rabbit because of the animal’s high reproduction rate.

The consumption of a chocolate bunny on that day along with the variety of other pagan activity that is associated with it, suggests that you worship or respect the feasts of other gods and goddesses, and not the 1 true God.

Well I guess it's worth pointing out I don't believe in any deities. I was just wondering how exactly it was evil or whatnot.

So should we not have pictures of bunnies or anything? Wouldn't that be pagan idolatry in your mind?

A buddny simply by itself is not pagan. However as I said previously when you mix that and everything else that goes on during Easter, you get a very pagan holiday that does in no way honor the 1 living god, but instead honors foreign gods.

[Sebastianbourg]

What made you reconsider your position on the matter? To my knowledge, you were quite the rabid atheist until very recently.

The date, perhaps?

Until the unfortunate date of his deletion; upon his return to NationStates with a new nation he seems to have changed.

PS Perhaps my tone was a bit confrontational or aggressive? If so, I apologise; that wasn't the intention.

[Benuty]

Eostra was the goddess of spring and fertility, and feasts were held in her honor on the Vernal Equinox (aka EASTER). Her symbol was the rabbit because of the animal’s high reproduction rate.

The consumption of a chocolate bunny on that day along with the variety of other pagan activity that is associated with it, suggests that you worship or respect the feasts of other gods and goddesses, and not the 1 true God.

Well I guess it's worth pointing out I don't believe in any deities. I was just wondering how exactly it was evil or whatnot.

So should we not have pictures of bunnies or anything? Wouldn't that be pagan idolatry in your mind?

The cruel irony being they by their own definition are polytheistic due to the dualistic ritualism of their syncretic religion. Elijah had something to say about wavering between Yahweh, and Baal. This is one of those times.

[Efraim-Judah]

Well I guess it's worth pointing out I don't believe in any deities. I was just wondering how exactly it was evil or whatnot.

So should we not have pictures of bunnies or anything? Wouldn't that be pagan idolatry in your mind?

The cruel irony being they by their own definition are polytheistic due to the dualistic ritualism of their syncretic religion. Elijah had something to say about wavering between Yahweh, and Baal. This is one of those times.

Sycretic? No. It is the fulfillment of Torah. Messiah was prophecized and he came.

[Benuty]

The cruel irony being they by their own definition are polytheistic due to the dualistic ritualism of their syncretic religion. Elijah had something to say about wavering between Yahweh, and Baal. This is one of those times.

Sycretic? No. It is the fulfillment of Torah. Messiah was prophecized and he came.

So you claim to have come, atleast the Christians have a good idea of where they stand (most of them anyway).

[Angleter]

Please enlighten me as to how eating chocolate somehow equates to me worshiping x god or goddess.

I'll get my popcorn.

Eostra was the goddess of spring and fertility, and feasts were held in her honor on the Vernal Equinox (aka EASTER). Her symbol was the rabbit because of the animal’s high reproduction rate.

The consumption of a chocolate bunny on that day along with the variety of other pagan activity that is associated with it, suggests that you worship or respect the feasts of other gods and goddesses, and not the 1 true God.

We know nothing about Eostre beyond a single passage of Bede's. It has only been speculated that there was any connection to hares. And it has equally been speculated that Bede made her up.

[Confederate Ramenia]

Please enlighten me as to how eating chocolate somehow equates to me worshiping x god or goddess.

I'll get my popcorn.

Eostra was the goddess of spring and fertility, and feasts were held in her honor on the Vernal Equinox (aka EASTER). Her symbol was the rabbit because of the animal’s high reproduction rate.

The consumption of a chocolate bunny on that day along with the variety of other pagan activity that is associated with it, suggests that you worship or respect the feasts of other gods and goddesses, and not the 1 true God.

Lol i was kind of right. But check out the Wikipedia article on Yahweh:


Yahweh[Notes 1] (/ˈjɑːhweɪ/, or often /ˈjɑːweɪ/ in English; Hebrew: יהוה‎), was the national god of the Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judah

His origins are debated but there is widespread acceptance that he did not originate with Israel;[4] his name may have begun as an epithet of El, head of the Bronze Age Canaanite pantheon,[5] but the earliest plausible references to it place him among the nomads of the southern Transjordan.[6]

n the oldest biblical literature Yahweh is a typical ancient Near Eastern "divine warrior" who leads the heavenly army against Israel's enemies.[7] He became the main god of the northern Kingdom of Israel and patron of its royal dynasty.[8] Over time, Yahwism became increasingly intolerant of rivals, and the royal court and temple promoted Yahweh as the god of the entire cosmos, possessing all the positive qualities previously attributed to the other gods and goddesses.[9][10] With the work of Second Isaiah (the theoretical author of the second part of the Book of Isaiah) towards the end of the Babylonian exile (6th century BC), the very existence of foreign gods was denied, and Yahweh was proclaimed as the creator of the cosmos and the true god of all the world.[10]

Two theories have been proposed to explain the origin of Yahweh: the first is that his name was at first a title for El, the head of the Canaanite pantheon (el dū yahwī ṣaba’ôt, "El who creates the hosts", meaning the heavenly army accompanying El as he marched beside the earthly armies of Israel); the alternative is that El and Yahweh were originally separate gods who merged gradually.[12] Support for the first hypothesis comes from the fact that Yahweh and El share many features; evidence for the second includes, among many other points, the fact that although El and Yahweh have much in common they also have many differences, and that while El's home was in the north, Yahweh's is always described as being in the south.[12]

According to this, either calling God "Yahweh" is essentially pagan, given the origins among Canaanite gods, or it is possible to incorporate some aspects of paganism into a monotheistic religion and de-paganise them.

[Angleter]

The date, perhaps?

Until the unfortunate date of his deletion; upon his return to NationStates with a new nation he seems to have changed.

PS Perhaps my tone was a bit confrontational or aggressive? If so, I apologise; that wasn't the intention.

I meant as in, check the date of his 'conversion'.