NEW YEARS

A Pagan Celebration of the Past ……The custom of celebrating it, AKITU FESTIVAL, has remained essentially unchanged for 4,000 years! It began in ancient Babylonia in Mesopotamia. It was a pagan custom of ancient sun-worship.

In 46 B.C.E. Roman Emperor Julius Cesar establish January 1 and New Years day.  Why that day?  Janus was the God of doors and gates.  God Janus had two faces; one looking forward and one looking back.  Cesar felt that a month named Janus would be the appropriate door for a new year.  The first January one celebration was a celebration to the God Janus.  Cesar ordered the violent routing of revolutionary Jewish forces in Galilee.  Witnesses said the streets literally flowed with blood.  Years later Roman pagans celebrated January one by partaking in drunken orgies symbolizing a personal reenactment of the chaotic world before the cosmos was ordered by the Gods.  Today the celebrations are pretty much the same.  The New York Police Dept was formed in response to these January first celebrations.

As Christianity spread the pagan holidays were incorporated into the Church calendar or were abandoned entirely.  Most of Europe during the medieval period regarded Annunciation day, March 25,  as the beginning of the new year.  Annunciation day is the day the angel Gabriel told Mary that she had been impregnated by God and she was to have God’s son called Jesus.  The pagans celebrated January first as the New Year but the Christians were definitely opposed to the pagan start of the year and celebrated Annunciation day and the first day of the year.

When William the Conqueror, AKA William the Bastard, became King of England on December 25, 1066, He decreed that the English would return to the first of the year date established by the pagans.  He wanted to assure that the date of Jesus’ birthday would align with his coronation.  And the date of the circumcision of Jesus, January first would be the day to start the New Year off.  This change was eventually rejected when he died, and all of Christianity abandoned January first as the start of the year and went back to Annunciation day and the first day of the year, March 25.

Then 500 years later, in recent history, in 1582, Ugo Boncompagni, AKA Pope Gregory 13th, abandoned the Julius calendar because the solar year was represented as 365 and 1/4 days which is not correct.  It introduced a day every four years to maintain a correspondence with the lunar and solar cycles.  The Jewish Talmud knew the correct days in a year 2000 years before.  There are 365 days five hours forty-eight minutes and 46 seconds.  The Julian calendar would slip behind one day a century.  Pope Gregory based his calendar on the date based on the date of the Council of Nicaea (March 21 325 C.E.).  This made Pope Gregory’s calendar off by 14 day in his year time period.  He based his reform calendar on the vernal equinox, March 11, the date they had 1,357 years earlier.  The change in the calendar was made the day after October 4, 1582.  The following day was changed and established as October 15, 1582.

The Gregorian calendar (as in Pope Gregory) differs from the Julian calendar in 3 ways.

First no century year is a leap year unless it is exactly divisible by 400.

Second, years divisible by 4,000 are common, not leap years.

Third, starting with Pope Gregory in the year 1582, the New Year would again begin on January first.

In the Roman Catholic Church, January 1 is an Attendance Obligation Holy Day honoring “the Holy Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God.”

Saint Sylvester

Today the Israeli government decided it was not right to celebrate a Gregorian New Years.  New Year celebrations in Israel are discouraged.  Because the whole world is celebrating, instead of New Year parties the people have Sylvester parties.  No, it doesn’t have anything to do with Disneyland.

Sylvester was a great Christian theologian, who later the Catholic Church beatified him as a saint, Saint Sylvester.  Sylvester was the Pope reigning at the time of the Council of Nicaea.  The Year before the Council of Nicaea, Sylvester convinced Constantine to prohibit Jews from living anywhere in the region of Jerusalem.  There were many Jews in the area and most refused to leave.  It was their homeland.  At Sylvester’s urging Constantine went and slaughtered the Jews that refused to leave.  At the Council of Nicaea Sylvester arraigned for a large number of decrees that were totally anti-Semitic.  All Catholic Saints are given a special day by the Catholic Church in which the saint is to be celebrated.  Saint Sylvester’s day is December 31.  Hence the celebrations in Israel on the night of December 31st are dedicated to Saint Sylvester’s memory.

The Goddess Ishtar…..The egg. The sign of fertility. ….

Spring is in the air! Flowers and bunnies decorate the home. Father helps the children paint beautiful designs on eggs dyed in various colors. These eggs, which will later be hidden and searched for, are placed into lovely, seasonal baskets. The wonderful aroma of the hot cross buns mother is baking in the oven waft through the house. Forty days of abstaining from special foods (Lent) will finally end the next day. The whole family picks out their Sunday best to wear to the next morning’s sunrise worship service to celebrate the savior’s resurrection and the renewal of life. Everyone looks forward to a succulent ham with all the trimmings. After all, it is one of the most important religious holidays of the year.

This is a description of an ancient Babylonian family—2,000 years before Christ—honoring the resurrection of their god, Tammuz, who was brought back from the underworld by his mother/wife, Ishtar (after whom the festival Easter was named). As Ishtar was actually pronounced “Easter” in most Semitic dialects, it could be said that the family event portrayed above is one of the other many culturral festivals. The occasion could easily have been a Phrygian family honoring Attis and Cybele, or perhaps a Phoenician family worshiping Adonis and Astarte. Also fitting the description well would be a heretic Israelite family honoring the Canaanite Baal and Ashtoreth. Or this depiction could just as easily represent any number of other immoral, pagan fertility celebrations of death and resurrection—including the modern Easter celebration as it has come to us through the Anglo-Saxon fertility rites of the goddess Eostre or Ostara.

For the first two hundred years of European life in North America, only a few states, mostly in the South, paid attention to Easter.” Not until after the Civil War did Americans begin celebrating this holiday: “Easter first became an American tradition in the 1870s”

The original 13 colonies of America began as a “Christian” nation, with the cry of “No king but King Jesus!” The nation did not observe any Easter festival for an entire century after its founding.

 Easter Date

Christian tradition is that Jesus died on March 25.  This is the exact day that the resurrection of the God Attis was celebrated in Rome.  However the Church father Lactantitus places the death of Jesus on March 23 and his resurrection on March 25.  Doesn’t seem to be three days.  However it is the exact dates of the death and resurrection of the pagan God Attis.

Lactantius.

Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius (c. 250 – c. 325) was an early Christian author who became an adviser to the first Christian Roman emperor, Constantine I.

Birth Year of Christ

New testament states no year for Jesus birth.  The Christmas date was a mistake according to a Scythian monk. Dionesius Exegus.  Someone from the Catholic church added a wrong number; born 3 BCE.

Jarome Biblical Commentary has essay by Cardinal Fitsmier, one of the most influential writes for the pope.  He says the birth definitely did not occur in AD 1. The error introduced 533 by Dionesius

On what day was Jesus born?

243 CE birth date written in north Africa.  The document Pasta Computus (Catholic church document)  states the birthday  of Jesus was March 28.

Clemens (Bishop of Alexandria) who died 215 CE wrote that Christ was put death on Nov 18.

Today Catholic writer Fitzmier says both wrong, and that Jesus was born September 11, 3 BCE

Claims of Catholic church today are that Jesus was not born December 25.  No Catholic or Protestant theologians believe this date was the birth date of Christ.

Christmas is NOT ... NOT ... Celebrating Christ’s Birthday

In Pagan Roman times, pre-Christian, there was a festival from December 17 to December 25, lasting 8 days.  The Roman Courts shut down.  The rule was anything goes.  If you damaged property or murdered someone you were not held responsible.  Each community would appoint one person to be the enemy of the roman people.  They would name that person the “Lord of Misrule.”  On the eighth day of the festival they would murder this person in a horrific fashion.  The manner was a slow death with not much left of his body in the end.  The festival was called the Festival of Saturnalia.

When Rome fell the festival of Saturnalia survived.  The Greek historian Luchian, described how the Greeks celebrated in his writing “Saturnalia” saying, “In addition to the human sacrifice, there was wide intoxication, people going house to house singing (caroling) in street naked, consuming human shaped biscuits (the ginger bread man).”

The early Christian Catholic Church was trying to convert pagans and would accept pagan practices if the pagans would believe in Jesus.  The Church Decided to bring in the Saturnalia cult.  With bringing in this cult also came the eight day festival of uncontrolled wildness.  Steve Nissibaum from University of Massachusetts describes, “By agreeing to the date December 25, the Catholic Church agreed to keep the celebration as it had been practiced.   Kept was the sexual indulgence, the singing in street, etc.  The Puritan leading theologian who was responsible for settling America, Increase Mather, wrote in Boston in 1687, “The early Christians that first observed the nativity on December 25 did not do so thinking Christ was born in that month, but because the heathen’s Saturnalia was at that time kept in Rome and they were willing to have those pagan holidays that metamorphosed into Christian ones.”

Puritans were totally opposed to Christmas, and between the years 1659 to 1681 anyone caught celebrating Christmas was thrown into jail.  It was illegal to keep Christmas in puritan America.  It was considered heresy.  There are groups in Europe that do not celebrate Jesus birthday.

In 1466, Pope Paul for amusement of Roman citizens arraigned the festival of Saturnalia, December 25, to include the Jews running naked through the streets of the city.  Eye witness wrote, “Before the run the Jews, they were amply fed making their run much more difficult and more amusing for the spectators.  Shrieks and pales of laughter.  The Holy Father stool upon a richly decorated balcony and laughed heartily.”

These celebrations continued on regularly through the eighteenth and nineteenth century.  During this period the Rabbis of ghetto in Rome were forced to wear clownish outfits and march through the streets to the jeers of crowd and were pelted by objects thrown.  The Jewish community of Rome sent a petition.  It was presented in 1836 to Pope Gregory 16th pleading for him to stop the festival of Saturnalia.

The Pope’s response was, “It is not opportune to make any innovation right now.”  The festival of Saturnalia was left in place.   On December 25 1881, Christian leaders along with polish masses worked up into an anti-Semitic frenzy which led to riots across the country.  In Warsaw 12 Jews were murdered, hundreds of Jews who were maimed or wounded and dozens of Jewish women were raped.  Two million rubles of property was destroyed.  That was a classic example of the Christmas celebration.

Christmas trees –

Catholics attempting to attract the Ashaera cult. Worshiped trees. Would bring trees into their homes and decorate and put candles on them and worship the tree.  Christian Catholics said worship Jesus, but cult said we worship trees.  Catholics said no problem just bring the tree into your house on December 25.  They were accepted with their tree worshiping practices in order to bring them under the Churches influence.

Mistletoe –

Mistletoe is a highly poisonous plant.  So toxic that you need to be careful when you handle it.  You hang this on your front door by itself or in a wreath.   The Nordic mythology was that the God Balder was killed from a mistletoe soaked arrow by his rival, Hoder, while fighting for the female, Nana.  Druid rituals used to use mistletoe in their sacrifices.  And they sacrificed children.  They would poison children with mistletoe when they sacrificed them.  The today custom of kissing under the mistletoe came as a morph of the Druid mythology and the permissible practice on December 25 of a man in the street grabbing a woman and doing whatever he wanted with her. If she was out of her house on December 25 she was fair game.  There was no repercussions from this act because of the customs of Saturnalia.

Christmas Presents

Roman emperors insisted that the Jewish community bring offerings on December 25.  Jews were forced to give these gifts on threat of death.  This insistence was expanded by the emperors to include other people by threat of death.  It evolved to gift giving in general because people gave presents to each other also during this time.

Saint Nick

Nicholas was born in Parara, Turkey in 270 CE and later became Bishop of Myra. He died in 345 CE on December 6th. He was wasn’t named a saint until the Catholic festival of Christmas was well established. The Catholic Church declared him a saint and gave him a day, December 6, in which he was to be honored.  However, he didn’t become a saint until the 19th century, about 1,600 years after his death. I guess it took people a long time to realize that he was a saint.

Nicholas was among the most senior bishops who convened the Council of Nicaea in 325 CE and created the New Testament. The text they produced portrayed Jews as “the children of the devil” (the terrorists) who sentenced Jesus to death.  They figured the people were stupid and would believe that the Jews told the Romans what to do (they were right about the stupid part). They didn’t put any fault on the Romans who, as the story goes, gruesomely killed their son of god, along with thousands of other innocent people.  These actions paved the way for the Holocaust.

In 1087, a group of sailors who idolized Nicholas so much that they moved his bones from Turkey to a sanctuary in Bari, Italy. There at the new shrine location, a female gift giving deity named Pasqua Epiphania was removed and Nicholas was put there. This former occupant of the shrine, deity Pasqua, was more commonly known as “The Grandmother”, who used to fill the children’s stockings with her gifts.  Since the Grandmother was ousted from her shrine at Bari, the location remained the center of the Grandmother cult.  Saint Nicholas replace the Grandmother.  Members of this group gave each other gifts during a pageant they conducted annually on the anniversary of Nicholas’ death, December 6.

The Nicholas cult spread north until it was adopted by German and Celtic pagans. These groups worshipped a pantheon led by Woden AKA Oden, their chief God.  Woden was the father of Thor, Baldr,  Vioarr and Vali.  Woden had a long, white beard and rode a horse through the heavens on one evening each Autumn. Nicholas merged with Woden by the pagans.  He shed his Mediterranean appearance, grew a white beard, mounted a flying horse, rescheduled his flight in the heavens to December, and donned heavy winter clothing.  Nicolas lived in the near east and dressed in a t-shirt and shorts.  When he was adopted in the cold northern areas he was clothed differently with warm heavy winter clothing and now had this long white beard.

The Catholic Church pressed the Nicholas/Woeden cult to become Christians.  They said they could bring their custom of worshiping Nicholas/Woeden with them just celebrate the day on December 25 instead of December 6.

In a bid for pagan adherents in Northern Europe, the Catholic Church adopted the Nicholas cult and taught that he distributed gifts on December 25th instead of December 6th (and they should do likewise).  Open the Catholic New Testament Book and look at the Saint days that are celebrated and Saint Nicholas is listed as December 6.

Our Santa Clause

In 1809 Washington Irving, a famous writer (Rip Van Winkle, Legend of Sleepy Hollow), wrote a much less known satire about Dutch history called Nicker Barker History.  Several times he refers to Saint Nickcholas by his Dutch name Santa Clause.  A Christian theologian named Clement More, a writer, in 1822 wrote a poem “Twas the night before Christmas …” the poem addressed main character as Santa Clause, who had 8 reindeer and it had a Santa Clause who descended through chimneys.   Santa still looked like a horror figure with long white beard and gruesome long black coat.  He was short and bent over and carrying a cane.  He looked frightening.  This depiction was from the myth that he was known to punish children (you better not pout you better not cry).  Santa Clause will beat you with a stick if you are not happy.

Santa transformed

Harpers Weekly, a then popular magazine, had a great illustrator by the name of Thomas Nast.  From 1862 to 1896 he produced 2,200 cartoons of Santa Clause.  Nast depicted Santa Clause differently.  He depicted him as a jolly fellow that lived at the North Pole and he had helper Elves.  This has nothing to do with Saint Nicholas who lived in hot dry Turkey.  Nast created the mythology of Santa making toys for all the children at the north pole with his helper elves and was a jolly good fellow.  Illustrator Thomas Nast created the Santa Clause we know today.

Coca-Cola Santa

But Santa was still dressed in black up until the early 1900s.  In 1931 the Coca-Cola Corp was in financial straits.  Why??? Because they were forced to remove cocaine from the soda drink.  Sales were slumping, going down.  They tried putting in caffeine but it wasn’t the same Coca-Cola.

They needed a huge advertising campaign to pull them out of the downward slump.  They hired the famous Swedish commercial artist illustrator by the name of  Haddon Hubbard “Sunny” Sundblom.  His job was to create a coke drinking Santa.

He modeled Santa Clause based on his friend Lou Prentis, who was overweight cheerful and had a chubby rosy red face.  The corporation like it all but the outfit.  They insisted that his fur trimmed suit Santa wore had to be Coca-Cola red.

All Santas today are based on the Coca-Cola Santa.  Parts of Europe still have Santa in the scary black suit.

Our Santa Clause is a blend of Christian crusader, pagan god, and commercial idol.

What Christmas Is

1 Christmas is a holiday celebrated carelessly based on the origin of civil decadence when the Roman courts were shut down.

2 Christmas was brought into Christian religion thoughtlessly. People never asked what connection does this have with Christianity.  They simply said it’s fun so let’s do it.

3 Christmas day celebrates today a God who came to earth to do away with Judaism.  The Jesus God is the reason the “old” testament is null and void.  Commandments are no longer needed to be kept.  Jews are to be abandoned because they are evil sinful people.  There now is a new good people – the Christians with a “new” testament.  The Jewish religion is a dead religion now.

4 Christmas is a lie.  Jesus was not born on December 25.  even the Catholic authority that writes for the Pope agrees to this.

Historically December 25 a day when Jews have been shamed and tortured  … and murdered.

Christmas customs of Christmas trees, mistletoe, Christmas presents, and Santa Clause are just modern acceptance of the most depraved pagan rituals ever practiced (like child sacrifices).

Why not celebrate April 20 instead.  This day is celebrated by a large German Austrian Polish population.  What is the celebration day.  It’s Hitler day.  The day in which Hitler was born.  Celebrated by Neo-Nazis and their friends.  They have a big party and invite everybody. They dress up in German dress with swastikas and wear mustaches.  In three or four generations the grandsons and granddaughters won’t know what they are celebrating just like the Christians.  They will just know it’s a day to have a big party and drink beer and have lots of fun.

Christmas, December 25, was historically always celebrated as a violent mass murderous day.

In 1941 A Christmas card  sent to the entire German people.  It was published in very popular newspaper called Desturmer.  Was written by the paper’s editor Julius Strifer.  He encouraged Germans to return to the former style of December 25 celebrations.  His Christmas card said,

“If one really wants to put an end to the continued prospering of this curse from heaven that is the Jewish blood there is only one way to do it.  To eradicate this people, this Satan’s sun, root, and branch.

Have a merry Christmas.”

Catholic Church Ordered

In the 5th century the Catholic church ordered the feast of Jesus’s birth to be celebrated on the day of the Mithraic rites of the birth of the sun (right after the winter equinox), and at the close of the Roman festival of Saturnalia, December 25.

The Western Church fixed two birthday dates to Jesus, December 25 for his physical birth, and March 25 for his spiritual birth or resurrection also known as Easter.  The same dual birthdays can be found in Egyptian mythology.  Horus was born a babe on December 25 and reborn a man March 25, the same date also that Savior Adonis was resurrected on.

Easter Orthodox Church

They celebrate their Christmas, the birth of Jesus, on January 6.  Osiris-Aion as said to be born of a virgin Isis on January 6.

Christmas aligns with the stars

What a coincidence!

Same as Old Testament

The Wisdom of Jesus is not spectacular original insight as the Christians claim. The same teachings and philosophies are in the Jewish Bible texts and have been taught by Jewish Rabbis for centuries. A quick look at the similarities from Proverbs, Psalms, Lamentations, and the Talmud will demonstrate this.

1.   Matthew 5:3 - Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom.
    
    Proverbs 29:23 - A man’s pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.

2.   Matthew 5:4 - Blessed are those who morn, for they shall be comforted.
    
    Psalms 147:3 - He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

3.   Matthew 5:5 - Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
    
    Psalms 37:11 - But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

4.   Matthew 5:6 - Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
    
    Psalm 5:12 - For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.

5.   Matthew 5:7 - Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.
    
    Talmud Shabbath - 151b 

6.   Matthew 5:8 - Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God.
    
    Psalm 24:3 to 4 - Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?

7.   He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

    He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

8.   Matthew 5:9 - Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
    
    Psalm 34:14 to 15 - Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it. The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.

9.   Matthew 5:39 - … but if anyone strikes you and the right cheek, turn to him the other also …
    
    Lamentations 3:30 - He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.

10.   Matthew 5:42 - Give to him that begs from you, and do not refuse him who would borrow from you.
    
    Psalm 37:21, 26 21 - The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth. 26 He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed.

11.   Matthew 5:44 - Love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you.
    
    Proverbs 25:21 - If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:

12.   Matthew 6:3 to 4 - But when you give charity, do not let the left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your charity may be in secret . . .
    
    Talmud Baba Bathra - 9b 

13.   Matthew 7:1 to 2 - Judge not, that you be not judged. For the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get.
    
    Talmud Shabbath - 127b & Sotah 8b

14.   Matthew 7:12 - So whatever you wish that men would do to you, do so to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
    
    Talmud Shabbath - 31a 

Do Unto Others

Christians claim Jesus was the originator of the so insightful Golden Rule. The Chinese Bible
which preceded the New Testament by 500 years has the same saying almost word for word
the same.

Golden Rule by Confucius, 500 B.C.E.

Do unto another what you would have him do unto you, and do not to another what you would
not have him do unto you. Thou needest this law alone. It is the foundation of all the rest.

Golden Rule by Aristotle, 385 B.C.E.

We should conduct ourselves toward others as we would have them act toward us.

Golden Rule by Pittacus, 650 B.C.E.

Do not to your neighbor what you would take ill from him.

Golden Rule by Thales, 464 B.C.E.

Avoid doing what you would blame other for doing.

Golden Rule by Isocrates, 338 B.C.E.

Act toward other as you desire them to act toward you.

Golden Rule by Aristippus, 365 B.C.E.

Cherish reciprocal benevolence, which will make you as anxious for another’s welfare as your
own.

Golden Rule by Sextus, a Pythagorean, 406 B.C.E.

What you wish your neighbors to be to you, such be also to them.

Golden Rule by Hillel, 50 B.C.E.

Do not to others what you would not like others to do to you.

Enemies

The following is from the old Persian bible, the Sadder:

1. "Forgive thy foes, nor that alone;
Their evil deeds with good repay;
Fill those with joy who leave thee none,
And kiss the hand upraised to slay."

Never was love, and kindness, and forbearance toward enemies more sublimely expressed
than in the old Persian ballad.

2. "Treat thine enemy as though a friend, and he will become thy friend,"

was expressed by Publius Syrus, a Roman slave, which is a wiser admonition than that of
Christ, "Love thine enemy," as it is a moral impossibility.

3· "All nature cries aloud, Shall man do less than heal the smiter, and the railer bless?" (Hafiz, a
Mahomedan.)

4· "Bridle thine anger, and forgive thine enemy; give unto him who takes from thee." (Koran,
Mahomedan bible.)

5· "Let no man be offended with those who are angry at him, but reply gently to those who curse
him." (Code of Menu.)

6. "Let him endure injuries, and despise no one." (Ibid.)

7· "Commit no hostile action for your own preservation." (Ibid.)

8. "To be revenged on enemies, become more virtuous." (Diogenes.)

9· "To strike a man, or vex him with words, is a sin." (Zend-Avesta, Persian bible.)

10. "Even the intention to strike is a sin.” (Ibid.)

II. "Desire not the death of thine enemy." (Confucius.)

12. "Acknowledge benefits, but never revenge injuries." (Ibid.)
 

13. "We may di"slike an enemy without desiring revenge." (Ibid.)

14. "Pardon the offenses of others, but never your own." (Publius Syrus.)

1 5· "The noble spirit cures injustice by forgiving it." (Ibid.)

16. "It is much better to be injured than to kill a man.'' (Pythagoras)

17. "You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force." (Publius Syrus)

18. "Better overlook an injury than avenge it." (Publius Syrus)

19. "It is enough to think ill of an enemy without avenging it." (Publius Syrus)

20. "It is a kingly spirit to return good deeds for evil ones." (Ibid.)

21. "Learn for yon orient shell to love thy foe, And store with pearls the hand that brings thee
woe;
Flee, like yon rock, from base, vindictive pride, Emblaze with gems the wrist that rends thy
side." (Hafiz)

22. "To revenge yourself on an enemy, make him your friend." (Pythagoras)

23. "It is not permitted to a man who has received an injury to revenge it by doing another."
(Socrates, in his Crito)

24. "Seek him who turns thee out, and pardon him who injures thee." (Koran)

25. "Return not evil for evil." (Socrates)

26. "Endure all things if you would serve God.'' (Sextus)

27. "Desire to be able to benefit your enemies." (Ibid.)

28. "Receive an injury rather than do one." (Publius Syrus)

29. "Be at war with men's vices, but at their persons." (Ibid.)

30. "Cultivate friendship for an enemy." (Pittacus)

31. "Be kind to your friends that they may continue so, and to your enemies that they may become
so." (Ibid)

32. "Prevent injuries if possible; if not, do not revenge them." (Ibid.)

33· "An enemy should not be hated, but cured." (Seneca)

34· "To act unkindly toward an enemy will increase his hate." (Antonius)

35· "Be to everybody kind and friendly." (Ibid.)

36. "Speak evil of no one, not even your enemies." (Pittacus)

-----SUNDAYATH

The First Day is Now the Seventh Day

One of the ten commandments of the Bible is “keep my Sabbath.” How many different times is this stated in the Bible? The Sabbath is the seventh day of the week.  And it doesn’t say to keep my “Sundayath.” And many times after this commandment the next verse that follows is, “I am ” Shem Hamephorash” [ihvh] your God.”

The Sabbath day is so important that it was made one of the ten commandments.     Exodus 20:8 – 11 8

****** Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.*******

9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

10 But the seventh day [is] the sabbath of the LORD thy God: [in it] thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that [is] within thy gates:

11 For [in] six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them [is], and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.     Exod 20:9-11

 16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.     Exodus 31:16

 3 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work. It is a Sabbath to the Lord in all your dwelling places.     Leviticus 23:3

 21 Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest. In plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.     Exodus 34:21

 14 You shall keep the Sabbath, because it is holy for you. Everyone who profanes it shall be put to death. Whoever does any work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.     Exodus 31:14

 Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant, or your ox or your donkey or any of your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.     Deuteronomy 5: 12 – 15

The new moons and Sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity.     Isa. 1:13

It is one of the Ten Commandments and is “a perpetual covenant.”

Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.    Exodus 20:8

My sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations … for a perpetual covenant.      Exodus 31:13-16

Ye shall … keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.     Leviticus 19:3, 30

Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD.     Leviticus 23:3

Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.Deuteronomy 5:12

Blessed is the man … that keepeth the sabbath.     Isaiah 56:2

Whoever “defiles” it “shall surely be put to death.”

Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death.     Exodus 31:14

Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you a holy day, a sabbath of rest to the Lord: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.     Exodus 35:2

And they found a man that gathered sticks upon the Sabbath day …. And all the congregation brought him without the camp and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the Lord commanded Moses.     Numbers 15:32-36

The new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity.     Isaiah 1:13

New Testament

Christians don’t honor Saturday the Sabbath. They worship on Sunday. They call Sunday the day of rest. The Catholic Church says they have the authority to change the day of worship from Saturday to Sunday. The Protestants and Born Again Christians blindly follow whatever the Catholic Church says like good Christians. The people around Jesus observed the Sabbath and wouldn’t even anoint the body of Jesus until after the Sabbath as per Mark 16:1-2. 16:1

And when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.     Mark 16:1-2. 16:1

Paul and his companions … On the Sabbath they went to the synagogue for the services. Acts 16:13 On the Sabbath we went a little way outside the city to a riverbank, where we thought people would be meeting for prayer …

 As was Paul’s custom, he went to the synagogue service, and for three Sabbaths in a row he used the Scriptures to reason with the people.     Acts 17:2

The Christians justify that they can do anything they want as stated in their vague verses. These verses seem to remove one of the ten commandments, the Sabbath commandment.

 In the same way, some think one day is more holy than another day, while others think every day is alike. You should each be fully convinced that whichever day you choose is acceptable. Those who worship the Lord on a special day do it to honor him.      Romans 14:5-6 5

 Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day.     Colossians 2:16-17 16

 So now that you know God (or should I say, now that God knows you), why do you want to go back again and become slaves once more to the weak and useless spiritual principles of this world? You are trying to earn favor with God by observing certain days or months or seasons or years.     Galatians 4:8-10 8

Sylvester I (314-337 A.D.) was the Catholic Bishop of Rome (later to become pope) during the reign of Constantine. He officially gave the Churches approval to the Constantine edict of 321 A.D. Here is what he thought of the Bible Sabbath:

“If every Sunday is to be observed joyfully by the Christians on account of the resurrection, then every Sabbath on account of the burial is to be execration [meaning loathing or cursing] of the Jews.”

–quoted by S. R. E. Humbert, Adversus Graecorum calumnias 6, in Patrologie Cursus Completus, Series Latina, ed. J.P. Migne, 1844, p. 143. The council of Bishops at the Council of Laodicea (363 A.D.) said;

“Christians must not Judaize by resting on the Sabbath.”

God did rest the seventh day from all his works. … There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.      Hebrews 4:4-9

And the “people of God they are talking about are not the Christians.”

And Jesus told his followers to pray that the end of the world doesn’t come on a Sabbath (since on that day they couldn’t run away from God’s wrath).

But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day.    Matthew 24:20

No, Believers say it doesn’t matter at all.

Jesus and his disciples didn’t bother much with the Sabbath, and they were criticized for it.

At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn and to eat. But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day.     Matthew 12:1-2, Mark 2:23-24

Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath. The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.    John 5:8-10

And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.     John 5:16

If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?      John 7:23

And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.     Luke 13:14

And Jesus encouraged others to break the Sabbath, saying that the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath, and that he was Lord of the Sabbath. (So he and his followers are free to break it.)

And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? And they held their peace. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go; And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day? Luke 14:3-5

He said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.      Mark 2:27-28

Paul* told his followers to observe the Sabbath on any day they liked. It’s not important and no one should be judged for how they keep (or don’t keep) the Sabbath.

One man esteemeth one day above another; another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.      Romans 14:5

Let no man therefore judge you in meat and drink, or in respect of a holy day, or of the new moon; or of the sabbath days.       Colossians 2:16

PAUL’S SATURDAY

There are many references in the book of Acts about the early Christian church meeting together on the Sabbath (Saturday) to pray and study the Scriptures. Here are some examples:

Paul and his companions … On the Sabbath they went to the synagogue for the services.     Acts 13:13-14

On the Sabbath we went a little way outside the city to a riverbank, where we thought people would be meeting for prayer …     Acts 16:13

As was Paul’s custom, he went to the synagogue service, and for three Sabbaths in a row he used the Scriptures to reason with the people.     Acts 17:2

However, some Christians believe the early church began meeting on Sundays soon after Christ rose from the dead, in honor of the Lord’s resurrection, which took place on a Sunday, or the first day of the week. This verse has Paul instructing the churches to meet together on the first day of the week (Sunday) to give offerings:

Now about the collection for God’s people: Do what I told the Galatian churches to do. On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with his income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will have to be made.     1 Corinthians 16:1-2

And when Paul met with believers in Troas to worship and celebrate communion, they gathered on the first day of the week:

On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Paul spoke to the people and, because he intended to leave the next day, kept on talking until midnight.     Acts 20:7

Jesus and the Sabbath

Therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the Sabbath day.     John 5:16

At that Time Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were a hungered, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat. But when the pharisees saw it they said to him, behold, your disciples do that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day. But he said to them, . . . . Have you not read in the law, how that on the Sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are blameless?      Matthew 12:1, 2, 3, 5

While some believe the transition from Saturday to Sunday worship began right after the resurrection, the truth is it was changed by the Catholics at the meeting of the Council of Nicaea.

Today, the majority of Christian believe Sunday is the Sabbath day

First Sunday Law

The legal duty imposed by the consitution of Constantive in 321 AD that all courts of justice, inhabitants of towns, and workshops were to be at rest on Sunday (venerabili die Solis) with an exception in fovor of those engaged in agricultural labor.   Encyclopedia Britannica, ninth edition “Sunday”

Found in the Codes Justiniani lib 3, title 12, lex 3.

“Let all the judges and town people and the occupation of all trades rest on the venerable day of the sun.”   Edict of March 7, 321 A.D. Corpus Juris Civilis Cod. lib 3. tit. 12, Lex 3.

364 AD at the Council of Laodicea, the Catholic church transferred the soleminity from Saturday to Sunday.

First Sunday Law in the U.S.

Virginia 1610 —

“Every man woman shall repair in the morning to the divine service and sermons preached upon the Sabbath [Sunday], and in the afternoon to divine service, and catechizing, upon pain for the first fault to lose their provision and the allowance for the whole week following;  for the second, to lose the said allowance and also to be whipped; and for the third to suffer death.”   Laws and Orders, Divine, Politique, and Martial, for the Colony in Virginia, first established by Sir Thomas Gates, knight, Lieutenant General, the 24th May 1610.

–still on the books

Most States have enforced “Sunday Blue Laws” in the past and most are still on the books.

Days of the Week

In the area of modern Germany the Teutons labeled the days of the weeks based on their gods;

Sun  = Sunday

Moon  = Monday

Tiu   = Tuesday

Wooden  = Wednesday

Thor   =  Thursday

Frigg  = Friday

Seturn  = Saturday