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"The Pagan Roots of Lent and Ash Wednesday"

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Elisha Israel

 

"It should be known that the observance of Lent did not exist as long as the simple church kept its perfection intact." Cassian, 5th century A.D.

 

Lent is the "fortieth" day before Easter. It is celebrated in many Christian denominations. It is a six and a half week period from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday. During Lent, Christians fast and deny themselves various pleasures. This is said to be in preparation for the commemoration of Christ's passion, death, and resurrection.

 

Choć Pismo Święte rzeczywiście ustanawia okres postu dla upamiętnienia Chrystusa, to nie był to okres czterdziestu dni znany jako Wielki Post. W Księdze Kapłańskiej 23:26,27 czytamy: „Dalej Pan powiedział do Mojżesza: 'Dziesiątego dnia siódmego miesiąca jest Dzień Przebłagania. Będzie to dla was zwołanie święte. Będziecie pościć i będziecie składać Panu ofiary spalane (…)”. Co więcej, Paweł prorokował o doktrynie dotyczącej nieświętego poszczenia w swoim pierwszym Liście do Tymoteusza. W 1 Tym 4:1-3 czytamy, co następuje: „Duch zaś otwarcie mówi, że w czasach ostatnich niektórzy odpadną od wiary, skłaniając się ku duchom zwodniczym i ku naukom demonów. [Stanie się to] przez takich, którzy obłudnie kłamią, mają własne sumienie napiętnowane. They forbid intermarriage, [command] abstinence from foodwhich God created to be received with thanksgiving by believers and those who have come to know the truth."

 

Paul in particular prophesies about the rise of the Catholic faith. In Catholicism, which is the mother of all other Christian denominations, priests are forbidden to marry. Furthermore, they have instituted a spring fast attributed to the suffering of Christ. Such a fast with its rituals, however, has its roots not in Christ but in the ancient pagan cult that preceded Christianity.

 

Słowo „Lent” w języku angielskim oznaczające Wielki Post znaczy „wiosna” i wywodzi się ze staroangielskiego „Lencten”. Duchowo rzecz biorąc wszystkie drogi prowadzą do Babilonu i tak też jest w przypadku czterdziestodniowych postów wiosennych. W jednej z wersji babilońskiego mitu Tammuz, wielki łowca, został zabity podczas polowania na dzika. Wierni opłakiwali go podczas ceremonii żałobnych przez czterdzieści dni. W czasach Ezechiela rytuał ten odprawiany był nawet wśród Izraelitów. Ezechiel pisze: „I rzekł do mnie: 'Zobaczysz jeszcze gorsze obrzydliwości popełniane przez nich’. Następnie zaprowadził mnie do przedsionka bramy świątyni Pańskiej, mieszczącej się po stronie północnej, a oto siedziały tam kobiety i mourned Tammuz." (Ez 8:13-14).

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Tammuz - alabaster relief from Ashur, c. 1500 B.C.

 

Tammuz worshippers sobbed with his wife Ishtar believing that his rebirth would signify the regeneration of life in nature. Similar holidays can be found among ancient pagan peoples. For example, the Egyptians observed a forty-day fast in honor of Osiris.

 

The sign of the cross made with ashes is not only typical of Constantinian Christianity, as it can be found throughout the ancient world. It was used as an important symbol of pagan gods, e.g., "the Tau cross was painted on the foreheads of newly initiated into Mithraism". It is also worth noting that the act of simply sprinkling ashes on the head, also taking place on Ash Wednesday, was also done in honor of the pagan Norse god Odin. The marking of the forehead with ash always took place on Wednesday, a day named in honor of Odin.

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A Roman Catholic priest sprinkling ashes on a practicing Catholic woman.

 

If it is true, as Cassian testifies, that "the observance of Lent did not exist, so long as the simple church kept its perfection intact." (John Cassian "Conferences with the Fathers"). Why is it observed today? We find no commandment in Scripture to observe such a feast. Undoubtedly, if we remove the Christian facade of Lent, we see what the ancient pagan fast reflects.

 

The above excerpt is from Elish Israel's book "The Pagan Roots of Christian Festivals."

 

Translated by Jacko. thank you in the name of Jesus Christ.

 

 

 

 

Updated: 20 February 2016 — 08:11

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  1. Thanks, Peter for this valuable text.I didn't know yet that Lent and Ash Wednesday have pagan origins.

    1. In fact, I checked before translating and found nothing about this on Truth Detective. However, it's hard to be much surprised that another Catholic tradition is a repurposed paganism.

      1. Easter also has pagan roots.

  2. Thank you for this article, I used to wonder about this, now I have the answer 🙂

    1. Praise the Lord that we live in a time where cognition is increasing and more and more people are learning that the Vatican is the Babylonian Whore whose teachings contradict the Bible.

  3. thank you also, more pagan roots in krk practices.

    1. " for explaining yet more pagan roots in krk practices" 🙂

  4. Księża nie mogą się żenić to fakt bo celibat jest rozumiany jako „bezżeństwo” i to dlatego tylko by majątek „sługi kościoła” po jego śmierci przypadł właśnie kościołowi oczywiście. Więc mogą sobie używać do woli na boku byleby tylko żon nie mieli. Tak czytam te wszystkie artykuły na blogu i przeraża mnie ogrom fałszu i kłamstwa w jakim żyjemy a raczej żyliśmy skoro trafiliśmy właśnie na tą stronę. Jestem grzesznikiem żyjącym w podłym, plugawym i grzesznym świecie. Odebrałem zapłatę za swe grzeszne życie!! Czy nie jest za późno dla mnie? Czy wstąpiłem na właściwą ścieżkę??! Jezu proszę Cię bądź mym przewodnikiem, bratem i pasterzem bo jako zagubiona owca potrzebuję Twej pomocy.

    1. It is never too late. God bestows His Grace of knowledge in His time, according to His will. May Jesus Christ guide you! Welcome to the blog 🙂 .

      1. Na tej stronie jestem już od jakiegoś czasu ale „oświecenie” przyszło lub nadejdzie później i nie wstydzę się tego powiedzieć – jestem grzesznikiem i odebrałem zapłatę za swoje grzeszne życie!

    2. John 3.16 Matthew 11
      .25 - 30 Revelation of John 3.20 This is a prescription for you

  5. They pray in vain to false gods bringing a curse on their people and their country. Father God, if it is your will, break this curse upon us. Through your Son Jesus Christ we humbly ask you to do so.

  6. Futile grievances and vain effort, your Catholic (pagan) superstitions, our God does not want.

  7. The belief system of Babylon the Great promotes all the worst, all kinds of degeneracy, perversion and deviation....

    1. That's true, but it doesn't set anyone free. Jesus frees from everything. Who will go in. His name to free the prisoners of religion? In the power and love of God? Without the spirit of criticism?

  8. Most people want to live in peace and prosperity, and not to expose themselves in the name of some idea they do not understand-the Gospel of Christ...Finally there come those for whom it is no problem to intimidate such an ideless mass-the Luciferians, ready for anything....

    1. And in this spiritual parochialism they miss the battle for truth, the most important battle in history, which they do not even want to hear about. And as ignorant as they are, one day they will want to sink to the ground when they finally realize that they have rejected the very God who created them and who has come back for his worshippers and to judge the rest. Horror.

  9. Is the fourth kingdom from the Book of Daniel (7.23)
    is the Vatican and the ten horns represent the 10 kings or 10 popes since the Vatican was founded . Bergoglio is the 10th pope. The next part of the vision is very interesting. They will be followed by another one different from the previous ones and will overthrow the three kings.

  10. The spiritual-material life of Babylon the Great is the worship of death and destruction, indirect and direct, mental and bodily, etc.

    1. Some people are really screwed, crushed by the troubles of everyday life caused by random events or mean people....

  11. In defense, they have this:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3g-W0xqE58

    And every kat(olik) is applauding. What do you think of that?

    1. How many times have I heard similar arguments.... so many times that I've already become immune to them 🙂

      What kind of argument is this - Charitable actions, volunteers are carried out in this world, of which we know who is the master not from today. We know in whom true love and thus good fruits are born. Or what is this argument that inquisitions did take place but they were not so brutal etc.?

      The apostle Paul wrote something like this:
      "And though I give away all my possessions for food for the poor, and though I spend my body to be burned, and have not charity, I profit nothing" - 1 Corinthians 13:3

      And the Lord Jesus said:
      „2 Kiedy więc dajesz jałmużnę, nie trąb przed sobą, jak obłudnicy czynią w synagogach i na ulicach, aby ich ludzie chwalili. Zaprawdę, powiadam wam: ci otrzymali już swoją nagrodę. 3 Kiedy zaś ty dajesz jałmużnę, niech nie wie lewa twoja ręka, co czyni prawa, 4 aby twoja jałmużna pozostała w ukryciu. A Ojciec twój, który widzi w ukryciu, odda tobie. ” Mateusza 6:2-4

      1. Beautiful passage from Corinthians, I read it today and was very moved, thank you 🙂

  12. How good to read your comments 🙂 How good to know you are!

    1. And how fortunate that you are Madzia 🙂 I'm so happy for you.

  13. Ez 9.4-6, 4 Pan rzekł do niego: „Przejdź przez środek miasta, przez środek Jerozolimy i nakreśl ten ZNAK TAW na CZOŁACH mężów, którzy wzdychają i biadają nad wszystkimi obrzydliwościami w niej popełnianymi”. 5 Do innych zaś rzekł, tak iż słyszałem: „Idźcie za nim po mieście i zabijajcie! Niech oczy wasze nie znają współczucia ni litości! 6 Starca, młodzieńca, pannę, niemowlę i kobietę wybijajcie do szczętu! Nie dotykajcie jednak żadnego męża, na którym będzie ów znak. Zacznijcie od mojej świątyni!” I tak zaczęli od owych starców, którzy stali przed świątynią

    IN THE BIBLE WE ALSO HAVE A SIGN ON THE FACE, as you can see, and in the Book of Revelation.

    1. is the mark of the forehead in the apocalypse as the seal of God and as the mark of the beast

    2. czoło to ważne miejsce w człeku, tam jest nasza „korona”

  14. Andrzej Luber The spiritual condition of modern man https://youtu.be/mgkVcSAZRwk.

  15. For most of the supposedly believing people in Poland, Catholicism is a very convenient religion, because it does not rely on true, Bible-based faith in God, and the fulfillment of rituals and sacraments that have no confirmation in it, and not questioning the position of the clergy, much less challenging...

    1. As for the rest, the prevailing religion in Poland is the cult of Mary, which is destroying our country, mixed with the pursuit of money/authority/body, even after dead bodies and perverse delight in teasing others (emigration is no better), not any Christianity...

      1. How many evangelical/biblical Christians are there in Poland and in emigration? A few thousand? The rest are more or lessoganized people...Let us ask ourselves: Am I a disciple/disciple of Christ?

        1. Where the spiritual atmosphere is barren, there will be no good...

  16. Z tym że list do Tymoteusza(jak podają naukowcy) jest dopiskiem jakiegoś skryby kopisty wiele lat po śmierci Pawła. Paweł jadał mięso niekoszerne za co dostawał ochrzan od „brata Pańskiego” czyli Jakuba.

    1. The dietary rules (and others as well) contained in the Bible were introduced by God not to spite people, but so that people would be less ill (produce reasonably healthy offspring) by avoiding unhealthy foods (risky behaviors).

      1. The dietary laws were given by God to Israel and not to the Gentiles, but we can use them without condemning anyone, for the law cannot save us but Christ. Hebrews 7.12 kos
        2.16-17

        1. Colossians 2.16-17

    2. xio 🙂

      Where did the information come from that Paul ate non-kosher meat ?
      Frankly it seems unlikely. Paul - a Pharisee (before being called by Jesus Christ), well versed in the Scriptures, observing the Torah... I honestly don't think that a deviation from what God instructed (in Paul's case) could take place.
      Na Twoim miejscu nie opierałabym się tak bardzo na zdaniu „naukowców”, bo wiele nieprawdziwych informacji (najczęściej wymyślonych przez ich chore umysły) wmawiają ludziom, przekazując swoje wizje i wymysły jako prawdę objawioną.
      Greetings 🙂 I'd like to thank you.

  17. Pagan roots also have anti-Semitism, a negative view of the chosen people, considering themselves the chosen people in place of the Jews... This also comes from Catholicism and Protestants have adopted this falsehood.

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