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Skeeter
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Username: Skeeter
Post Number: 646
Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Monday, April 05, 2010 - 8:42 pm: |     |
''now that we know what Easter/Resurrection Day is really all about. I would be interested if she can explain exactly what about it sickens her.'
me too... but wondering... do I dare ask ? or just leave it alone....
Francie |
Colleentinker
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Username: Colleentinker
Post Number: 11115
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Monday, April 05, 2010 - 9:05 pm: | |
Dennis--interesting. I'm thinking, though, that as far as Adventists go, they are expanding their borders, so to speak. They're reaching out to Muslims and "monotheists", and eventually they will also seek to reach out to Hindus and Buddhists.
It may even be true that Catholics will likewise try to appeal to these others as well...but Adventism is changing its profile. Remember the article in Adventist World by William Johnsson and his visit to the Muslim sheik who had a dream about Adventists?
They are even calling themselves a world religion now...
They are moving targets.
Francie--I'm so sorry. That comment just reveals the truth about the "Adventist gospel" which is no gospel at all. I was thinking this weekend, as I adjusted an Easter lily in the living room, that not so very long ago I disdained Palm Sunday as a pagan ritual that Catholics tried to make sacred.
So, so wrong...and I so love the reality of Passion Week now!
Colleen |
Skeeter
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Username: Skeeter
Post Number: 648
Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Monday, April 05, 2010 - 10:19 pm: | |
This week I received another "signs" magazine and also a "truckload sale" brochure from the ABC store... then yesterday I received 2 books both published by R+H from a family in the little church we used to be members of 16 + years ago. They all went in the trash.
I am thinking I should send them a couple of Dale's books and ask them to read and LMK what they think. :-)
Colleen, I love Easter lily's and feel blessed as they seem to grow "wild" around our little village. I know they grow from bulbs and not seeds so someone got them started in the area at some time in the distant past...but they are just thick in some places. Those and also "naked ladies".We have a few lilys in our yard that bloom both spring and fall every year.We didnt plant them and we have lived here 16 years now. They also grow in abundance in vacant lots all around town.
they are such pretty plants even when not in bloom.:-)
Francie |
Skeeter
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Username: Skeeter
Post Number: 650
Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 06, 2010 - 8:49 am: | |
I am planning to call my MIL this evening and talk to her.
It keeps bothering me about my MIL's comment.. to the point that I dreamed about it last night :-( In my dream I asked her what it was that she meant when she said the celebrations in Haiti on Easter "sickened" her... were they practicing voodoo or some other strange thing, or were they sincerely praising Jesus and giving Him thanks for what He did for them that Ressurection weekend ..? (in my dream I got no answer) and I then asked if she could tell me what in the Bible is of more importance than the fact that Christ came, died for us and then rose from the dead .....Well, in my dream she mentioned the second coming,,, to which I told her that if it were not for Him coming that First time and doing what He did for us in paying the penalty for our sins and rising from the dead that Sunday morning, that there would BE no SECOND coming. Then I woke up....:-/
Ok, I'm wierd. LOL Usually I dont even remember my dreams once I am awake,, but this one stuck with me... I feel I need to ask her about her comment... I am afraid to because I am afraid of what she might say,,, and yet, maybe her reason was valid.. I dont know unless I ask, and it is apparent it is going to keep bothering me until I have an answer.
Please pray for me today that God will give me the right words to say, and that I will get a clear answer from her.
Sometimes I think I am like an old dog with a bone,, I get something on my mind and just cant let go of it. (sigh)
Francie |
Flyinglady
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Username: Flyinglady
Post Number: 8088
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 06, 2010 - 9:30 am: | |
Francie, praying for you.
Diana L |
Colleentinker
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Username: Colleentinker
Post Number: 11121
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 06, 2010 - 11:03 pm: | |
Francie, praying now for you. How did it go?
Colleen |
Skeeter
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Username: Skeeter
Post Number: 652
Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 07, 2010 - 9:13 pm: | |
Couldnt get hold of her yet, my sister in law said she (my MIL)has been having trouble with her cell phone and is supposed to get a new one in a day or two.. they got rid of their "land line" a couple years ago.
Funny... my sister in law who my MIL has criticized for years for leaving "the truth" has a message on her phone that says something about please leave a message and I will get back to you as soon as possible and ends with "Have a Blesssed day". (in a very pleasant voice)
While my "Christian" SDA MIL has on HER cell phone this simple message "LEAVE A MESSAGE" in a sharp tone...
At first I thought it was funny... now I just think it is sad... (sigh)
Skeeter |
Skeeter
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Username: Skeeter
Post Number: 671
Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, April 18, 2010 - 8:11 pm: | |
Well, I finally spoke to my MIL about her comment on Easter in Haiti...I had been putting it off I guess mostly out of a dread of what I feared she might say....
I told her that just after Easter she had made a comment about those in Haiti celebrating Easter and that it "sickened" her.. I told her I had not heard anything about it on the news or anything and had been wondering what she meant.
First thing out of her mouth was "Pagan"and I jumped in without her saying another word... not easy to do if you knew my MIL....LOL
I told her that I do not feel that Easter is "pagan".. that I dont feel a need for Easter bunnies and colored eggs, but that as Adventists we always focused so much attention on the fact that Christ died on a Friday and RESTED through "Sabbath" that we seemed to ignore the fact that Him dying on Friday and resting Sabbath would have been for nothing if He had not risen that Sunday morning... that we need to see the importance of what happened on each of those 3 days and not ignore the most important part... the ressurection just because it happened on a Sunday.... (I was on a roll) LOL
She ended up agreeing with me and said the only mention of Easter in church that Sabbath was when SHE said something about "tomorrow is the day that most of the world celebrates Easter" (notice she didnt say "the ressurection of Christ") and then didnt tell me if she said anything else about it.....
she did say though that she had heard a news reporter say that Haitians were mostly Catholic and 100% voodoo. so maybe that is what she meant about it "sickening " her....maybe.
Skeeter |
Asurprise
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Username: Asurprise
Post Number: 1234
Registered: 7-2007
| | Posted on Monday, April 19, 2010 - 12:16 pm: | |
Skeeter; perhaps she just objects to Resurrection Sunday being called "Easter." When I was an SDA though, I didn't mind calling it "Easter," because I wasn't worshipping the pagan goddess "Easter."
"Easter" is the same "goddess" that was called the "queen of heaven" in Jeremiah 7:18. God was really upset with Israel over that, but I'm sure He winks at us Christians for celebrating it because we're not worshipping the "goddess," but Israel was. |
Believer247
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Username: Believer247
Post Number: 121
Registered: 3-2009
| | Posted on Monday, April 19, 2010 - 12:35 pm: | |
At the Baptist church where we have been going, the preacher called Easter Sunday " Celebration Sunday". I like that. |
Asurprise
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Username: Asurprise
Post Number: 1236
Registered: 7-2007
| | Posted on Monday, April 19, 2010 - 6:45 pm: | |
It IS vital to celebrate the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, because it is the most important event of time and eternity! Calling it Resurrection Sunday gives glory to God. Calling it "Easter" gives glory to another. It's odd how the most important event of all time got a pagan name attached to it. (Another thing that the "fertility goddess" Estartes [Easter] supposedly did was to order the killing of all the boars because a boar supposedly killed her husband. Hence: Easter ham. Eggs and bunnies represent fertility.) |
