ty wolf...that is a wonderful compliment

I do see why you feel as you do and I am sorry for it

I was talking to my grandma who can out preach, debate, quote anyone I can think of. She'd give the pope a run for his money.

She is the most knowledgable on scriptures I can think of (including the heads of church) because she loves her belief

She even reminded me that as Christians all we can do is show our beliefs by the way we live and Testify...to those wiling to hear. NEVER to force our beliefs on anyone. There isn't scripture that tells us to pursue people that don't want to hear.

Like I've said...I love history and people

Pagans felt they were the enlightened ones in the their day, Christians feel they are the enlightened ones today. All religions teach that they are the TRUE AND ONLY RIGHT religion. This has been done throughout time.

Religion evolves as we do and we will evolve out of Christianity also just as all religions before it and all after it. People cannot see this but it is truth.

The path of religion begins with those ancient religions, ALL religions owe their birth and power to those beginning religions. It is a continuing path each lending to the next in line.

To discount or reject the earlier religion is to reject your own religion now. The mother of your religion is the religions before it.

ty dragoness...i know we have argued in politics lol but I do respect your views their and here and I agree with you here which HOPEFULLY I'm trying to come across

I have my beliefs and will always hold onto them but I can't force them on others...that's not what I believe

i say, you have found the door to the truth. and in the end, its the truth that matters, not the presentation

I was just researching April Fool's day.

Alabama Changes the Value of Pi: The April 1998 newsletter of New Mexicans for Science and Reason contained an article written by physicist Mark Boslough claiming that the Alabama Legislature had voted to change the value of the mathematical constant pi to the "Biblical value" of 3.0. This claim originally appeared as a news story in the 1961 science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein.[3]
Spaghetti trees: The BBC television programme Panorama ran a famous hoax in 1957, showing the Swiss harvesting spaghetti from trees. They had claimed that the despised pest the spaghetti weevil had been eradicated. A large number of people contacted the BBC wanting to know how to cultivate their own spaghetti trees. It was in fact filmed in St Albans.[4]
Left Handed Whoppers: In 1998, Burger King ran an ad in USA Today, saying that people could get a Whopper for left-handed people whose condiments were designed to drip out of the right side.[5] Not only did customers order the new burgers, but some specifically requested the "old", right-handed burger.[6]
Taco Liberty Bell: In 1996, Taco Bell took out a full-page advertisement in The New York Times announcing that they had purchased the Liberty Bell to "reduce the country's debt" and renamed it the "Taco Liberty Bell." When asked about the sale, White House press secretary Mike McCurry replied tongue-in-cheek that the Lincoln Memorial had also been sold and would henceforth be known as the Ford Lincoln Mercury Memorial.[7]
San Serriffe: The Guardian printed a supplement in 1977 praising this fictional resort, its two main islands (Upper Caisse and Lower Caisse), its capital (Bodoni), and its leader (General Pica). Intrigued readers were later disappointed to learn that San Serriffe (sans serif) did not exist except as references to typeface terminology. (This comes from a Jorge Luis Borges story.)[8]
Metric time: Repeated several times in various countries, this hoax involves claiming that the time system will be changed to one in which units of time are based on powers of 10.[9]
Smell-o-vision: In 1965, the BBC purported to conduct a trial of a new technology allowing the transmission of odor over the airwaves to all viewers. Many viewers reportedly contacted the BBC to report the trial's success. This hoax was also conducted by the Seven Network in Australia in 2005.[10] In 2007, the BBC website[2] repeated an online version of the hoax.
Tower of Pisa: The Dutch television news reported once in the 1950s that the Tower of Pisa had fallen over. Many shocked people contacted the station.[11]
Write Only Memory: Signetics advertised Write Only Memory IC databooks in 1972 through the late 1970s.[12]

"April 1st: This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three-hundred and sixty-four." — Mark Twain

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I would assume that you believe in the 1000 year of Yahshua ruling on earth before the final Judgement.



If you do we are told that these things will be kept..

Zech 14:16-19

And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, Yahweh of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. 17 And it shall be that whichever of the families of the earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, Yahweh of hosts, on them there will be no rain. 18 If the family of Egypt will not come up and enter in, they shall have no rain; they shall receive the plague with which the Lord strikes the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. 19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.
NKJV

Here in the 1000 years everyone will come to worship before the King at The FEAST OF TABERNACLES or face the consiquinces.


Here this is after the 1000 years.


Isa 66:22-23

22 "For as the new heavens and the new earth
Which I will make shall remain before Me," says Yahweh,
"So shall your descendants and your name remain.
23 And it shall come to pass
That from one New Moon to another,
And from one Sabbath to another,
All flesh shall come to worship before Me," says Yahweh.
NKJV

Here we even see the New Moon we will worship before him and the sabbath...

Heb 4:8-13

8 For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day. 9 There remains therefore a rest for the people of Yahweh. 10 For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as Yahweh did from His.

11 The Word Discovers Our Condition


Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience. 12 For the word of Yahweh is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 13 And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.
NKJV

Again we see that the people are told the 7th day sabbath is in force.


Gen 2:1-3

Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. 2 And on the seventh day Elohim ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. 3 Then Elohim blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which Elohim had created and made.
NKJV


10 For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as Yahweh did from His.

The church changed the sabbath also. Yet Hebrews is very clear the sabbath is in force.


Can the church just change anything they want to suit themselves?

Blessings...Miles

ack.... yellow we both forgot about April Fools day!!! That is a Christian holiday

sure??? you were wrong about halloween remember? lol

oops just saw trouts post

The origins of this custom are complex and a matter of much debate. It is likely a relic of the once common festivities held on the vernal equinox, which began on the 25th of March, old New Year's Day, and ended on the 2nd of April.

Though the 1st of April appears to have been observed as a general festival in Great Britain in antiquity, it was apparently not until the beginning of the 18th century that the making of April-fools was a common custom. In Scotland the custom was known as "hunting the gowk," i.e. the cuckoo, and April-fools were "April-gowks," the cuckoo being a term of contempt, as it is in many countries.

One of the earliest connections of the day with fools is Chaucer's story the Nun's Priest's Tale (c.1400), which concerns two fools and takes place "thritty dayes and two" from the beginning of March, which is April 1. The significance of this is difficult to determine.

Europe may have derived its April-fooling from the French.[2] French and Dutch references from 1508 and 1539 respectively describe April Fools' Day jokes and the custom of making them on the first of April. France was one of the first nations to make January 1 officially New Year's Day (which was already celebrated by many), by decree of Charles IX. This was in 1564, even before the 1582 adoption of the Gregorian calendar (See Julian start of the year). Thus the New Year's gifts and visits of felicitation which had been the feature of the 1st of April became associated with the first day of January, and those who disliked or did not hear about the change were fair game for those wits who amused themselves by sending mock presents and paying calls of pretended ceremony on the 1st of April. In France the person fooled is known as poisson d'avril (April fish). This has been explained as arising from the fact that in April the sun quits the zodiacal sign of the fish. The French traditionally celebrated this holiday by placing dead fish on the backs of friends. Today, real fish have been replaced with sticky, fish-shaped paper cut-outs that children try to sneak onto the back of their friends' shirts. Candy shops and bakeries also offer fish-shaped sweets for the holiday.

The Dutch celebrate the 1st of April for other reasons. In 1572, the Netherlands were ruled by Spain's King Philip II. Roaming the region were Dutch rebels who called themselves Geuzen, after the French "gueux," meaning beggars. On April 1, 1572, the Geuzen seized the small coastal town of Den Briel. This event was also the start of the general civil rising against the Spanish in other cities in the Netherlands. The Duke of Alba, commander of the Spanish army could not prevent the uprising. Bril is the Dutch word for glasses, so on April 1, 1572, "Alba lost his glasses." The Dutch commemorate this with humor on the first of April

maybe i like to be wrong when pretty women are involved LOL

Miles - again...I will not argue beliefs anymore. That isn't for this thread and is off topic

well...we have 2 for my side now

I found this Saturday Night! George Washington is a Direct Descendant of Odin!

http://www.stavacademy.co.uk/mimir/moere.htm

ok people...i'm slow here - working on 3rd night of no sleep. take it slow for me lol

one more and you win a prize!! or depending on your view, a punishment.... LOL

now who here (when this thread started) would have even thought of making friends with a christian like me???

can I count kim-ism then??? lol it's christian based and origin but with my twist lol

well i had a friend that created her own religion ... so Sure