Happy Easter!

[R.M.GREENMAN2]

To all my Christian friends on one of their most Holy of days! [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]
I gotta feel for the people that wanted to attend the "Sunrise Service" at Red Rocks this Sunday. At this moment, Denver is under a winter storm and it is worse in the foot hills. It might put a bit of a damper on the service.

As many of you know, I myself am a Pagan. But just the same, I once attended this Easter service and it was spectacular! Any other religion (Judism, Hindu, Islam, Pagan, Buddists) would be hard pressed to disagree.

Red Rocks is an incredible rock formation just west of Denver formed during the Ice Age, that over looks downtown and far points on the Eastern plains. A amplitheatre had been built between two huge megolithes and all the seats face East.

The service begins 1/2 hour before sunrise. As the sun starts to peak at the horizon..... you just gotta see it to believe it. The music and the cheers as it rises....WOW!

Something a Pagan like myself can enjoy, due to the witnessing of the most powerful force of nature we humans can actually see.

[img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img] You all have a great day and weekend!

[R.M.GREENMAN2]

To all my Christian friends on one of their most Holy of days! [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]
I gotta feel for the people that wanted to attend the "Sunrise Service" at Red Rocks this Sunday. At this moment, Denver is under a winter storm and it is worse in the foot hills. It might put a bit of a damper on the service.

As many of you know, I myself am a Pagan. But just the same, I once attended this Easter service and it was spectacular! Any other religion (Judism, Hindu, Islam, Pagan, Buddists) would be hard pressed to disagree.

Red Rocks is an incredible rock formation just west of Denver formed during the Ice Age, that over looks downtown and far points on the Eastern plains. A amplitheatre had been built between two huge megolithes and all the seats face East.

The service begins 1/2 hour before sunrise. As the sun starts to peak at the horizon..... you just gotta see it to believe it. The music and the cheers as it rises....WOW!

Something a Pagan like myself can enjoy, due to the witnessing of the most powerful force of nature we humans can actually see.

[img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img] You all have a great day and weekend!

[hairyhomer]

Happy Easter to All.

I had a wonderful experience at The Easter Vigil last night at the Catholic Church. During the service they baptize any adult that have been preparing to join the church they also baptize infant children at this time. They bing in a special baptismal tank so they can do full immersion (the rest of the year they just use a small font that looks like a big salad bowl)the man who was baptized had his infant daughter baptized at the same time and she was completely naked and in full view of the whole Church. She did scream very loudly with joy, [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img] as the plunged her in and out not the water three times. The family was taking lots of pictures so I sure hope the had a digital camera and if not they had better not the take their film to Wal Mart to get it developed.

[sawdust]

Christians today, all over the world, are reminded of the biblical affermation of the historic resurection of Jesus Christ. With His death and resurection, mankind was set free from the bondage of sin and given a new fellowship with God, through Jesus the Son. In this recognition we can say with joy to each other, He is risen! He has risen indeed!
Happy Easter-Sawdust

[Guest]

AMEN!

[NuTex]

His is Risen! Amen!
NuTex
PS Thanks R.M.Greenman2

[P.J.]

Halleluja thine the Glory, Hallelujah, Amen!

We who worship Jesus and accept Him as the True Saviour, have the blessed assurance that after He suffered and died for all of our sins, He arose, also for us, and gave us another blessed assurance, and that is a ressurrection from the dead.

Those who accept His taking our punishment and in faith, accept the promises of Our Lord and Saviour are given a gift that is not only difficult to match but impossible to even get close to matching.

Only a loving and powerful God can do this.

Don't question it. Accept it!

[Vin]

Happy Easter to all who observe it!

Sunrise service here was probably a bit cool, but at least it was dry. If you're going to have any religious ritual, no matter the tradition, that's one of the most magical times of day for it.

Vin

[nudewheelchairTodd]

God is goooooooooooooooood, Aman

[Outlaw]

Let us not forget our Hebrew brothers and sisters who celebrate Passover at this time. Good Passover!

Mike Hebrew: Michael--"who is like the Lord" (Big Mac)

[Trailscout]

And of course the first incidence of what Christians call Holy Communion or the Lord's Supper occurred at a Passover Seder.

If the blood of the lamb is on the doorposts of your heart, then the death angel will pass over you and you will live to cross the Jordan to a new life in the Promised Land for the Jew and all who call on his holy name, blessed be the Holy One of Israel.
Shalom

[David77]

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Originally posted by Big Mac:
[qb] ... who celebrate Passover at this time. Good Passover!
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Good Passover? It is extreme EVIL and a heinous, atrocious crime for God to murder all those Egyption babies. God a baby killer?
Don't worship a baby killer!

Your God concept for worship needs revising, possibly as the New Testament concept of God as Love. Please totally reject the concepts of God as a baby killer when no sign on the door-post, when you worship.

[Outlaw]

Years ago, I read a sci-fi short story about a Jesuit priest who did some research regarding the star of Bethlehem and found that the star was a sun that exploded and destroyed a populated planet.

If God is responsible for what happens in the universe, what you call that?

Mike (Big Mac)

[sawdust]

I call that Fiction. Get a life! It is only a story. Sawdust

[TXK NUDE]

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Originally posted by David77:
[qb]Good Passover? It is extreme EVIL and a heinous, atrocious crime for God to murder all those Egyption babies. God a baby killer?
Don't worship a baby killer! [/qb]

It was never God's intention to kill innocent children, but He left the choice of the final curse up to the Pharoah, and it was Pharoah's choice. He commanded that the first born of every Hebrew would be killed in the morning, so God sent the death angel to visit the Pharoah's command against his own people...and saved the Hebrew children. I recommend that you at least have some sort of basis for your bias before you make such glaringly inaccurate statements.

[qb]Your God concept for worship needs revising, possibly as the New Testament concept of God as Love. Please totally reject the concepts of God as a baby killer when no sign on the door-post, when you worship. [/qb]

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I'm not sure you understand the nature of the New Testament God and the Old Testament God. They are one and the same. He has been, and always shall be...unchanging and forever. He was just as loving a God in the Old Testament as He was in the New Testament and is today. He showed His love to the Hebrew people (His chosen people) by saving them from the tyranny and torment of over 400 years of slavery, and the heinous death that was planned for their first born. Should we hold a measuring stick to God and hold Him to our standard? Or does He hold us to His measuring stick and find us wanting...yet still offers us His mercy and grace? We seem to think that we automatically deserve God's love, but we really don't...we truly deserve His wrath. The fact that He doesn't wipe out the human race again is because of His love and mercy...and He gave His word--which He can never break.