| Online: | |
| Visits: | |
| Stories: |
Critics Of Christianity Often Frauds! From Erasmus Of America – Dec. 13, 2014
Saturday, December 13, 2014 16:19
% of readers think this story is Fact. Add your two cents.
CRITICS OF CHRISTIANITY OFTEN FRAUDS! FROM ERASMUS OF AMERICA – DEC. 13, 2014
I recently sank one large group of critics of mainstream Christianity when I showed two references in the New Testament showing that Sunday was the main worship day of Christianity in the days of the Apostle Paul. The critics did not know that the 8th day which was a common term in early Christian writings referred to Sunday. Sunday was called the 8th day because it was the day that Jesus Christ resurrected from the grave. The 8th day was used twice in the New Testament as reference for the main worship day of Christianity already in the days of the Apostle Paul as the New Testament records. With the Apostle Paul visiting a church on the 8th day which was the day that the churches broke bread (referring to Holy Communion) and would be visiting a church on the 8th day which was the day of gatherings (collected offerings for the main worship day each week), I frankly showed that the critics were at a minimum not scholars who checked out their details thoroughly. Or maybe motivated by hatred or jealousy towards churches that did not agree with them on all points, they tried to pick a point for a fight that the main churches could not defend themselves on and so discredit them with inaccurate scholarship. However, the other side acting upon passed on traditions did not know why they really worshipped on Sunday or not as their main worship day each week.
Christians could worship also on Saturday, Wednesday, or any other day of the week, but to honor the resurrection of Jesus Christ on Sunday which they called the 8th day, they elected in the days of the Apostles of Jesus Christ to make Sunday their main worship day for each week.
And the side using fraudulent scholarship to try and discredit any church disagreeing with them said Constantine the Great changed the main worship day from Saturday to Sunday whereas the New Testament clearly shows that Sunday was already the main worship day for Christians two centuries before Constantine the Great arose in history! Also, claiming that Christian churches who worshipped on Sunday instead of Saturday had the mark of the beast on them for doing that was fraudulent scholarship or else incompetent scholarship on their part. Two main branches of the Catholic side (Roman and Greek) were smeared with this attempted defamation of them and also most mainline Protestant denominations as well.
Early Christian writings stated the bread and the wine in Holy Communion were changed into the mystical flesh and blood of Jesus Christ after the invocation was prayed over them. St. Padre Pio who was impressive to me with stunning daily Miracles of God for 50 years while he bore the stigmata of Christ on his body for this same 50 years also clearly stated that the bread and wine were turned into the actual flesh and blood of Christ in the Catholic Mass once the invocation was prayed over them. I would sooner bet that the first Christian writings and St. Padre Pio were right than the Christian scholar who says that this is just a memorial service and nothing more with the Holy Communion in Christian churches throughout the world. By the way, when St. Padre Pio died Sept. 23, 1968, the wounds of Christ disappeared from his body as he died and he died a normal man after that. For whatever it is worth, St. Padre Pio said that he would ask that he not enter into formal Paradise while people on earth still wanted him to pray for them. When there was no more need for him on earth, then he wanted to enter the entrance into Paradise. Was he right or wrong in this stand he believed valid? When a man or woman has constant Miracles of God occur with them, I do not laugh nor mock them. And I listen with respect to that man or woman then speaking about God and the supernatural.
There are scholars so filled with hatred that they want to divide Christianity no matter how silly the excuse or argument they invent to try and divide Christianity with. Some say that you sleep in the ground until the Day of Judgment. Strange, but I have seen many people who died for a while and one friend of mine who was dead at a hospital around 16-18 hours and then awoke alive again which shocked and scared part of the hospital staff when this happened. The dead I have seen who became alive again talk of being alive in the hereafter and either facing at least Paradise or else Hell as their permanent location for all eternity if they did not somehow become alive again.
Your Pastor Dan of Nigeria who likely has won millions to become Christians in Africa was dead for three days and then brought back to life at a Reinhard Bonnke Crusade with a huge crowd there in Nigeria. When Pastor Dan became alive again due to the amazing faith of his wife who took him by ambulance from the morgue to the crusade to bring him back alive again, he talked of seeing both Paradise and Hell. While seeing Paradise which was wonderful to be in, he was asked if he would return to the earth. He did not want to return from this wonderful place until he was told that he would be sent permanently to Hell until he returned. He had a bitter fight with his wife and as he would not forgive her when she asked him to, this act would cause him to be damned to hell for all eternity even though that he had been a Christian pastor while alive. Once alive again, he became a super saint in his life and got the message loud and clear that if he could not forgive others, neither would he be forgiven in the hereafter exactly as Jesus had explained in a parable in the New Testament.
Shortly before writing this, I was reading a Bible passage of the New Testament explaining that those who loved evil would be rewarded for their evil in life once they died. Those that loved good would be rewarded for their good acts (done in the right spirit, of course!) once they died. The New Testament and early Christianity taught that we are saved by grace such as the thief on the cross with no time to do good in his life before he died but he accepted Jesus as his saviour just before dying. But also we are rewarded for all eternity for the good we do for the right reasons while on earth. Grace saves us, but good works done with a good heart and for the right reasons are where we get our rewards for all eternity. The New Testament including Revelation is loaded with promises of rewards for doing what the Lord Jesus Christ wants us to do while on this earth!
The haters of serious Christianity pull many verbal tricks on the naive and gullible who are light on thinking and scholarship and do not want to listen to sound scholars of Christianity whether Protestant or Catholic. As the famous Catholic Bishop Fulton J. Sheen stated when alive, he had maybe 2,000 Protestant books in his library as well as Catholic books (more Catholic of course!) as he said that the Catholics had no monopoly on being inspired by the Holy Ghost to show things to Christians to make them better Christians in life. Some Protestant scholars had good points they raised in Christianity as well as Catholic scholars!
Sometimes I have answers that neither the standard Protestant or Catholic scholars have. None of us has a monopoly on all knowledge or truth in life, so all smart people always listen to other smart people regardless of which side of the fence they are on to see if they have a smart angle or else a foolish angle in some point they raise. I have heard so many times that the Feast of the Nativity or birth of Christ was celebrated at Christmas to honor a pagan holiday. Pure hot air at best! Con argument at worst. In the Constitutions of the Holy Apostles is the writing by a Jewish scholar turned Christian convert. He refers to Jesus being born on the 25th of the 9th month which is the Feast of Lights or Hanukah which was a major holiday in the Jewish religion and represented that God dwelt among us. Now this is taken from the Jewish religious calendar which basically was equivalent to December 25. And at the time of Christ, the Pharisees thought that the Roman solar calendar was more accurate than the Jewish lunar calendar and so coordinated their calendar with the Roman calendar so Jesus Christ was born on Dec. 25 on both the Jewish and Roman calendar that year! And since both Protestant and Catholic scholars like to judge that Jesus Christ was born 5 B.C. or earlier, the general teaching of first Christianity as recorded in their writings is that Jesus Christ was born 28 years after the death of Cleopatra of Egypt (30 B.C.). So Jesus was born in or close to 2 B.C. and not earlier at 5 B.C. or earlier than that! I am not an amateur as a scholar in historical research work!
Now our usual con artist fake scholars in Christianity like to claim that Christmas was celebrated on Dec. 25 to honor a pagan god. If I use the poor quality reference the con artist fake scholars like to use so much, this is pure “B.S.” on their part! A claimed scholar who can only use references like “B.S.” to try and argue against the scholarship and arguments of the other side implies that his scholarship and brains are so low as to likely be around a 50 I.Q. rating in intelligence or some level like that! I just used the “B.S.” reference here to show what real scholars do not resort to as it implies that they have no brains and so can only argue with insults to try and derail the other side on an issue.
Probably Bishop John Chrysostom of Constantinople in the 4th century was as brilliant in Christian scholarship as you would find in his day in the Eastern half of Christianity in the Roman Empire. He greatly rejoiced when a delegation from Constantinople found the tax census records of the Imperial Tax Archives in Rome and found Jesus Christ listed as born on Dec. 25 on the Roman calendar. The Roman Church half of Christianity had taught that date for the Feast of the Nativity for a long time but the Eastern half of Christianity was not convinced until the tax census records were found stored in Rome and then it was official for Christianity that Jesus had actually been born on December 25 as the tax census records showed. Since Jesus was born in Bethlehem when the Jewish and Roman calendars coordinated together then due to Pharisee policy, Jesus was born on Hanukkah which explains the inn full at Bethlehem with religious pilgrims going to the Temple at Jerusalem to celebrate Hannakuk there. Also, the shepherds in the hills selling sheep to those wanting them. That was too good of a business outside of Jerusalem for shepherds to ignore at time of Hannukah! After all, business is business when the customers are there! I heard the argument that it was too cold and shepherds would not be there in that extreme cold then. I was in Jerusalem 10 days after Christmas and the weather was light jacket at worst on some days. The cold weather would have been at the mountains nearby in Lebanon. People dislike some stands in Christianity and so invent poor quality arguments to try and stop scholarly, well researched positions wi
I looked at the astronomical history for Israel at the time of Passover. The assigned date for Easter was about as good as could have been done to keep it attached to the Jewish calendar, but the Jewish calendar moved around a bit as a lunar calendar whereas the Roman calendar was steadier as a solar calendar based upon the sun instead of the moon. Easter was not set up to honor a pagan holiday, but was about as good of an attempt as the early Christians could do to keep their calendar reliably reflecting when Jesus Christ died and then resurrected in Jerusalem afterwards.
Jesus warned that he who caused a child to lose his faith in God, better for that man to have a millstone hung around his neck and thrown into the ocean than for him to later face the Judgment of God for destroying the faith of a small child in God. Matthew 18:6 :
King James Bible
But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
King James Bible
But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
Those who oppose allowing prayer and the Bible in the public schools face the curse of Matthew 18:6 later for all eternity. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison both approved of the 10 Commandments and prayer and the Bible being allowed in the public schools. Thomas was author of the American Declaration of Independence of 1776 and James Madison was called the “Father of the U.S. Constitution” and “Father of the U.S. Bill of Rights”. When Thomas Jefferson was President of America, he proposed that the two required textbooks to be used in all public schools of America were the Bible and the Watt’s Christian Hymnal. His best friend James Madison who also later was President saw nothing wrong in this in the U.S. Bill of Rights that he had written for America and so did not object to this policy proposed by President Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson also used federal funds to evangelize American Indians to Christianity while he was President. Also, the Capitol Building that Congress met in was used on Sundays as a local church for them and others to pray in. How the liberals turned around the history of America into lies by teaching us a Marxist version of American history instead of Christian! The American Congress during the American Revolution bought 10,000 copies of the Bible and had it given to soldiers fighting the American Revolution and said that the Christian Bible was the political textbook of the American Revolution. Gen. George Washington addressed his soldiers as soldiers for our King Jesus Christ who we are fighting for in the American Revolution. During the American Revolution, the Continental Congress fighting the American Revolution addressed prayers to Jesus Christ on behalf of the nation and stated that the main reason for the American Revolution was so that the Christian Gospel could spread from America to later cover the whole world! How “politically correct” Wash., D.C. today lies about the founding history of America using the Marxist version of American history instead of the true version of the Christian version of American history! Also, this Common Core version of education pushed by Obama Wash., D.C. now is for the brainwashing and not educating the children of America today.
Stepping on toes! Romans 4 shows that the Old Covenant with promises on behalf of Abraham, etc. was replaced with the New Covenant transferring promises to Abraham and first only to the Children of Israel to now the entire human race on earth if they become true Christians. Really the Jews do not have to lose the promises given to Abraham, etc. Become Christians as many of the descendants of Israel already have and do not know their identity today as the Old Testament predicted, but become Christian Jews and retain what you racially want out of your own Jewish culture so long as it is the good and not bad of the culture! We have German Christians, French Christians, English Christians, Italian Christians, African Christians, Middle East Christians, Asian Christians, Central and Latin American Christians, North American Christians, so why not also Jewish Christians and not ashamed of their ancient culture in the process of becoming Christians?
This report is answering critics of Christianity where too many churches and Christians sit silently while Christianity is defamed by many bad and poor quality scholars. With only one side standing up and the other silent side making it look like the critics are right in the nonsense they claim about Christianity, this weakens the side of Christianity in the world. When you stand up strong for Christianity, you will then create a great Christian revival in the world!
Pass this report around if you are a spiritual soldier of Christ and the Army of the Lord spiritually speaking out to overcome the world rather than be overcome by the world!
Our website is www.fastboomamericaneconomy.comOur email is [email protected] Our mailing address for orders and payments sent by mail instead of through our website is NIFI, P.O. Box 1465, Seneca, SC 29679 . Make checks, etc. out to NIFI and tell us what the payment is for.
Yours For God And Country, Erasmus Of America (pen name for the only Christian leader apparently in America now standing for restoration of prayer and the Bible to our public schools. I am not ashamed of Christ? Are you? We pass our proposed Omni Law on our website and we restore the Christian America of 1776!)
Source: http://nesaranews.blogspot.com/2014/12/critics-of-christianity-often-frauds.html
