Anna's Blog – March 2009 Archive (21)

Easter and the Bible

Easter and the Bible

Theme: Easter is a manmade religious event, not instituted by Christ or His apostles. Acts 12:4

I. INTRODUCTION

A. “Easter is the greatest of Christian holidays.”1

1. It is celebrated by millions each year.

2. It is also understood as the “grandest and oldest feast in the Christian calendar”2

3. What makes this particular “holy day” so great is that it is the celebration of… Continue

Added by Anna on March 28, 2009 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Early Christianity on: YouTube - Eisenman and the Naked Archeologist

Discusses Messiah's Brother James, written about in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Get ready to be enlightened....

Early Christianity on: YouTube - Eisenman and the Naked Archeologist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqlOyfIVNDc&feature=PlayList&p=37C36A42E20B261A&index=0&playnext=1>&feature=PlayList&p=37C36A42E20B261A&index=0&playnext=1

Added by Anna on March 28, 2009 at 11:23am — No Comments

The Nine-Fold Purpose of the Law of God

The Nine-Fold Purpose of the Law of God

1. To teach the believer how to serve, worship and please God [Psalm 19:7-9; Acts 18:13, 14].

2. To instruct the believer how to treat his fellow man and have healthy relationships with him [Leviticus 19:18; Galatians 5:14; Galatians 6:2].

3. To teach believers how to be happy and prosper here on earth by manifesting the power and authority of God’s reign in their lives [Joshua 1:8; Psalm 1:1-3; Luke… Continue

Added by Anna on March 25, 2009 at 11:00pm — No Comments

Early Christianity a Jewish/Hebraic Sect

Early Christianity a Jewish/Hebraic Sect.

For a long time Christianity regarded itself as part of Judaism. It had its center in Jerusalem (Irenæus, "Adversus Hæreses, i. 26); its first fifteen bishops were circumcised Jews they observed the Law and were rather unfriendly to heathenism. (Sulpicius Severus, "Historia Sacra," ii. 31; Eusebius, "Hist. Eccl." iv. 5; compare Matt. xv. 26), while they held friendly intercourse with the leaders of the synagogue (see Grätz,… Continue

Added by Anna on March 25, 2009 at 11:00pm — No Comments

"The seventh day......an holy convocation" Lev. 23:3

Was the Sabbath ordained by YHWH as a day for congregational worship?

For you Bereans, the following texts are where we get our answer:

Lev 23:2 Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them, [Concerning] the feasts of the LORD which ye shall proclaim [to be] holy *convocations* (H4744), [even] these [are] my feasts .

Lev 23:3 Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day [is] the sabbath of rest,

an holy… Continue

Added by Anna on March 16, 2009 at 11:00pm — No Comments

Mark 2:27 "And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath"

The text of Mark 2:27 has ben tossed around by many here on BPN, with varied man made interpretations without a clue as to what this text really means. Any private interpretation, contrary to the original context, I'm sure we all can agree is utterly worthless.

So that all will see that the following is not just an opinion, we will analyze this verse of Matt. 2:27 from the Greek text using the Strong's Greek lexicon, which is available to all online.

The words of this… Continue

Added by Anna on March 16, 2009 at 10:56pm — No Comments

"Removing Anti-Judaism from the Pulpit"

Here are some comments from scholars on this subject from Removing Anti-Judaism from the Pulpit (edited by Howard Kee, emeritus professor of biblical studies at Boston University, and Irvin Borowsky, chairman of the American Interfaith Institute, 1996).

John T. Pawlikowski, a professor at the Catholic Theological Union of Social Ethics, Chicago, says: "The claimed total opposition to Torah [Old Testament teachings] which theologians, especially in the Protestant churches, frequently… Continue

Added by Anna on March 15, 2009 at 11:39am — No Comments

The Last Supper, was it a Passover seder?

The Last Supper, was it a Passover seder?

by Roy A. Reinhold

I will present the conclusions for those who do not wish to or have time to read this whole article, affirming that Messiah's last meal was not a Passover seder.

One bit of evidence this gentleman did not produce is that the early Quartodeciman Believers and even today the churches of the Eastern Orthodox faith use "leavened" bread during their "Eucharist" the meal in remembrance of… Continue

Added by Anna on March 15, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments

The Story Behind "Passing the Plate" From Christianity Today.com

Story Behind Passing the Plate

After America ended state support of churches in the early 19th century, the collection of "tithes and offerings" became a standard feature of Sunday morning worship.

Mark Rogers

Thursday, March 12, 2009

As instrumentalists play or a soloist sings, as ushers file slowly down the aisles, congregants give money as an act of worship and to support the ministry of the church. If the people don't give, then the pastor goes… Continue

Added by Anna on March 14, 2009 at 10:31am — 1 Comment

Hell's Best Kept Secret... The Law

Hell's Best Kept Secret... The Law

Someone has said, "Before you can get someone saved, you have to get them lost." In other words, if the sinner does not understand that his sinfulness puts him in a hopeless position before God, he will not recognise how lost he is and how badly he needs a Saviour.

The following article by Ray Comfort, author of the book 'Hell's Best Kept Secret', illustrates how witnessing can be far more effective if the soul-winner takes the… Continue

Added by Anna on March 13, 2009 at 10:12pm — No Comments

Why the Protestant Reformation Failed!

Why the Protestant Reformation Failed!

by Frank M. Walker

from a tract by

Raymond Clark, DD

"Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city."

- Revelation 22:14

''And you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.''

- John 8:32

''My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge…seeing… Continue

Added by Anna on March 13, 2009 at 4:00pm — No Comments

"The Cross and Crucifixion"

The Cross and Crucifixion.

This Is Appendix 162 From The Companion Bible.

In the Greek New Testament two words are used for "the cross" on which the Lord was put to death.

1. The word stauros; which denotes an upright pole or stake, to which the crimminals were nailed for execution.

2. The xulon, which generally denotes a piece of a dead log of wood, or timber, for fuel or for any other purpose. It is not like dendron, which is used of a living, or… Continue

Added by Anna on March 12, 2009 at 8:26am — No Comments

The "Three Days" and "Three Nights" of Matthew 12:40

The "Three Days" and "Three Nights" of Matthew 12:40.

This Is Appendix 144 From The Companion Bible.

The fact that "three days" is used by Hebrew idiom for any part of three days and three nights is not disputed; because that was the common way of reckoning, just as it was when used of years. Three or any number of years was used inclusively of any part of those years, as may be seen in the reckoning of the reigns of any of the kings of Israel and Judah.

But,… Continue

Added by Anna on March 12, 2009 at 8:17am — No Comments

"Six Days Before The Passover" (John 12:1).

A timely message for this time of year, for those of you who are wiling to investigate the teaching of the Friday Crucifixion/Sunday Resurrection, from a Biblical scholar who lived in the 1800s.: He documented Wednesday as the day of Messiah's crucifixion based on the Hebraic understanding of Biblical texts

"Six Days Before The Passover" (John 12:1).

This Is Appendix 156 From The Companion Bible.

We are furnished by Scripture with certain facts and fixed points… Continue

Added by Anna on March 12, 2009 at 8:10am — No Comments

THE JEWISH ROOTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

THE JEWISH ROOTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

Lea Sestieri

“The "Guide for a correct presentation of Jews and the Jewish religion..." (1985), encourages Christians to acquire a more respectful and adequate knowledge of the common heritage of Christians and Jews because this knowledge "can help them better understand certain aspects of the life of the Church"

Although in Jewish scripture the Holy Spirit is never presented as a person but rather as a divine power… Continue

Added by Anna on March 11, 2009 at 10:30pm — 1 Comment

From the Encyclopedia Britannica: "Early Christians kept the Passover, not Easter"

Early Christians kept the Passover, not Easter.

Notice this from the Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edit., Vol. 8, p. 828: “There is no indication of the observance of the Easter festival in the New Testament, or in the writings of the Apostolic Fathers…The first Christians continued to observe the Jewish festivals [God’s festivals of Leviticus 23], though in a new spirit, as commemorations of events which those festivals had foreshadowed. Thus the Passover, with a… Continue

Added by Anna on March 8, 2009 at 12:24am — No Comments

Historical Documents Regarding: "Church History and Sabbath Observance"

That the observance of the Sabbath was not confined to Jewish converts, the learned Gieseler explicitly testifies: "While the Jewish Christians of Palestine retained the entire Mosaic Law, and consequently the Jewish festivals, the Gentile Christians observed also the Sabbath and the Passover (I Corinthians 5:6, 8), with the reference to the last scenes of Jesus' life, but without Jewish superstition." -- Eccl., Vol. 1, chap. 2, sec. 30.

"While the Christians of Palestine, who… Continue

Added by Anna on March 7, 2009 at 8:45am — 1 Comment

Evidence of the Jewish Background of the Early Church

Evidence of the Jewish Background of the Early Church-Jewish Leadership in the Early Church

by

Dr. Ron Moseley

Contrary to what some believe, the first fifteen bishops of the original Church at Jerusalem were Jewish. In his Ecclesiastical History, Eusebius tells us that "the church at Jerusalem, at first formed of the circumcision, came later to be formed of Gentile Christians, and the whole church under them, consisted of faithful Hebrews who continued… Continue

Added by Anna on March 6, 2009 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Who Were "The Spirits In Prison" of 2 Peter 3:19

Who were " "The Spirits In Prison" of 2 Peter 3:19, and what is the time in which were they preached unto and who did the "preaching'?

Added by Anna on March 4, 2009 at 6:34am — 3 Comments

Blacks four times more likely than whites to be in corrections system.....

Study: 7.3 million in U.S. prison system in '07

Record 7.3 million people were in jail, prison or on probation or parole in 2007

That's one in every 31 people in the U.S., Pew Center on States found

Blacks four times more likely than whites to be in corrections system, study showed

(CNN) -- A record number of Americans served time in corrections systems across the country in 2007, according to a report released Monday by the Pew… Continue

Added by Anna on March 3, 2009 at 1:15am — No Comments