USING
COMMON SENSE IN SCRIPTURAL DOCTRINES
So
what is common sense?
Common
sense is the ability to see things for what they are and the ability to reason
things out through a logical process. Common sense can be the result of study,
it can be the result of a series of experiments which lead you to a logical
conclusion. Common sense is the ability to have wisdom or knowledge. Having common
sense can be the opposite of ignorance or stupidity; such as when a child
touches a hot stove out of ignorance.
Believe it or not, not everybody uses common sense, think
about all of the accidents that people encounter each year because quite
frankly they do what we consider dumb things. Have any of you ever done
something that you knew you should not have, and encountered an accident?
“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.”
Robert
Green
Ingersoll
The fact is that most people do not use common sense all
the time, although they might use it some of of the time, most people will
either make excuses or justify their actions when they have encountered some
things which can be learned or justified through a common sense approach.
Today we are going to speak about some doctrines which can
be understood by using simple common sense approach.
The Sabbath and Resurrection:
The Bible says, that Yahweh kept the Sabbath and
established it at the time of creation for all of us to keep. Gen 2:2 and Exodus
20:10
The Argument: The messiah did away with the Sabbath when
he was killed on Good Friday at about 3 pm and arose on Easter Sunday Morning at
about 8am.
Things to ponder: the alleged date that the savior was
killed on is called Good?
Facts on Friday:
The celebration of Good
Friday is ancient, and some of the practices associated with Good Friday are
attested to by Egeria in the 4th century. The day gradually became a time of
penance and fasting as the anniversary of the death of Christ. The name
"Good Friday" possibly comes from "God's Friday," although
the exact reason for the current name is unclear. The custom of venerating the
cross on Good Friday probably originated in Jerusalem in the 7th or 8th century,
and continues to this day in many Western Churches. Pre-sanctified Masses are
referenced in the documents of the Quinisext Council, which was held in AD 692,
which means the practice pre-dates the seventh century. The Council mentions
pre-sanctified liturgies as occurring primarily during Lent. Various churches
observe Good Friday in addition to Catholics and Eastern Christians. Anglicans,
Methodists, and Lutherans all observe Good Friday to varying degrees.
The name "Friday" came from a
Norse deity worshipped on the Sixth day, known either as Frigg (goddess of
marriage and fertility), or Freya (goddess of sex and fertility), or both, the
two figures having Become intertwined in the handing-down of myths over time
(the etymology Of "Friday" has been given both ways. Frigg/Freya
corresponded to Venus, The goddess of love of the Romans, who named the sixth
day of the week In her honor "dies Veneris." Friday was actually
considered quite lucky by pre-Christian Teutonic peoples, we are told -
especially as a day to get married - Because of its traditional association with
love and fertility. All that Changed when Christianity came along. The goddess
of the sixth day - Most likely Freya in this context, given that the cat was her
sacred Animal - was recast in post-pagan folklore as a witch, and her day
Became associated with evil doings.
"Easter", many scholars agree, has its
root in ancient pagan religion. "Easter" derived from Eastre,
the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring. The name is actually much older - going
back to Babel and it's infamous tower. The grandson of Noach (Noah), Nimrod,
formed the first post-flood kingdom. Jewish tradition indicates that
Nimrod was a tyrant "who made all of the people rebellious against
God." Nimrod ruled several major cities including Babel, Asshur,
Nineveh and Calah (cities known through-out the ancient world for unimaginable
perversion). When Nimrod died, the Babylonian mystery religion continued.
His wife Semiramis deified him as the Sun-god. He is known through out pagan
religions as Baal, Baalim, Bel, and Molech. Semiramis later gave
birth to an illegitimate son named Tammuz (later known in the Roman world as
Mithras) , was claimed to be Nimrod "reborn." Furthermore she
claimed that her son was supernaturally conceived and that he was the promised
seed, the 'savior' - promised by God. Nimrod was deified as the god of the
sun and father of creation. Semiramis became the goddess of the moon and
fertility. In the Mystery cults, the 'savior' Tammuz \ Mithras , was worshipped
in spring with pagan rites. According to legend, after Tammuz was killed by a
wild boar, he went into the underworld. But through the weeping of his mother
(for 40 days - lent) he was resurrected. Each year a spring festival was held to
dramatically represent this supposed 'resurrection'. Thus a false religion
developed with sun and moon worship, priests, astrology, demonic worship,
worship of stars associated with their gods, idolatry, mysterious rites, human
sacrifice, and more.
Where did the Ishtar Egg
originate: 'The egg was a sacred symbol among the Babylonians. They
believed an egg of wondrous size fell from heaven into the Euphrates River'.
From this marvelous egg the goddess Astarte (as also know as Semiramis or
Ishtar, where we get the name Easter from), was supposed to have hatched. Thus
the egg came to symbolize the goddess Easter. The idea of the mystic egg spread
from Babylon to many parts of the world. In Rome, the mystic egg preceded
processions in honor of the Roman Mother goddess. The egg was part of the sacred
ceremonies of the Mysteries of Bacchus. The Druids used the egg as their sacred
emblem. In Northern Europe, China and Japan the eggs were colored for their
sacred festivals. The egg was a symbol of fertility; Semiramis (Easter) was the
goddess of Fertility. The Easter egg is a symbol of the pagan Mother goddess,
and it even bears one of her names. The rabbit is also a well known as a sexual
symbol of fertility. Annual spring time fertility rituals are associated
worship of the Mother Goddess and Tammuz, the reincarnation of Nimrod.
Common
Sense: three days and three nights Matthew 12:40
A
day in our time is a full 24 hours from midnight to midnight. If we were going
to reckon time the way that “we” reckon time than we could say that Yahshua
died on Friday and arose on Sunday and hence we have three days, Friday,
Saturday and Sunday, three! But there are two problems with that, first, during
the time of our messiah time was not reckoned the way we reckon it, for them the
days started at sunset and went till the next sunset. You can do the mat and you
will not find three days and three nights if you reckon the days like that and
secondly and most important, Yahshua said that he would be in the hear of the
earth, the tomb for three days and three nights. Now even if you reckon the time
that we people do it now a days, you still have a problem when you try to figure
the nights because you cannot get three days and three night from Friday to
Sunday.
So
using common sense, we find that there is an error in the way that churchianity
reckons the three days and three nights from Friday to Sunday. Not to mention
the fact that both Friday was used as an ancient pagan rite and Easter is
actually a pagan celebration. Something is wrong here and I don’t think that
it is the scriptures.
Now let’s take a look at the Sabbath:
Amazingly
people believe that the Sabbath was changed from Saturday to Sunday, the seventh
day of the week to the first because Yahshua arose on Sunday and also because
Paul had a meal on the first day of the week (Acts 20:7).
Common
Sense?
Ok,
this may surprise you to find out but there is only one time in the scriptures
which talks about the disciples coming together on the first day of the week In
the Hebrew breaking bread is an idiom that simply means sharing a meal; nothing
else. In fact the Catholic Church does not even break “bread” at their
communion on Sundays; they give you a full intact small sun-like round wafer.
There is no breaking bread during the Sunday communion Catholic rituals!
In
addition the New Testament is filled with about 88 examples where the disciples
or the Messiah were keeping the Sabbath. So ask yourself the question and use
common sense: One time in which the disciples were eating a meal and 88 times
where they were keeping the Sabbath and yet we want to say that the 3rd
Commandment has been done away with.
Ok,
so we have the Messiah keeping the Sabbath and everyone can agree that the
Messiah did keep the Sabbath, but we are made to believe that after he ascended
than the other disciples stopped keeping the Sabbath. Well let’s see what Paul
did since he is the apostle to the gentiles (Acts 17:2)!
"You may
read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line
authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the religious
observance of Saturday, a day which we never sanctify" (Cardinal Gibbons, The
Faith of Our Fathers, page 111).
"The
Catholic Church of its own infallible authority created Sunday a holy day to
take the place of the Sabbath of the old law" (Kansas City Catholic, February 9, 1893).
Sunday was
originally kept in honor of the sun god. "Let all judges and town people,
and the occupation of all trades rest on the venerable day of the Sun"
(Constantine's Law).
The first
Sunday law was passed by Emperor Constantine on March 7, A.D. 321.
"The
observance of Sunday by the Protestants is an homage they pay, in spite of
themselves, to the authority of the [Catholic] Church" (Plain Talk About the Protestantism of Today, by Mgr. Segur, page
213).
"Constantine
the Great made a law for the whole empire (A.D. 321) that Sunday should be kept
as a rest day in all cities and towns; but he allowed the country people to
follow their work" (Encyclopedia
Americana, article "Sabbath").
"Is there
no express commandment for observing the first day of the week as Sabbath,
instead of the seventh day? None whatever. Neither [Messiah] nor the apostles
nor the first Christians celebrated the first day of the week" (New
York Weekly Tribune, May 24, 1900).
"The
observance of the first, instead of the seventh, day rests on the testimony of
the [Roman] Church and the Church alone" (Hobart Church News [Episcopalian]
July 2, 1894).
So let us analyze what we are in fact saying and using Common
sense? First the Bible commands that we keep the Sabbath, Second, the Messiah
kept the Sabbath and we find that after the Messiah ascended Paul also kept the
Sabbath, Lastly the Catholic Church boldly claims that they have the stake or
prize on Sunday worship and they readily admit that they are not supported by
the Bible. So that leaves one question? Using Common Sense, who is right? The
Catholic Church or the Bible? Use your common sense!!
The Clean Food Laws
Alright
now for the second part of this message we are going to speak about two things,
one of them being the clean food laws which those of churchianity believe are
done away with and also we are going to speak about the Hebrew Names, which some
people don’t think that they are important to call upon. Remember that we are
taking a common sense approach to study these topics. So let’s start off with
the Clean Food Laws.
Churchianity
uses the following Scriptures to prove that they can now eat animals which were
not designed for food: (Matt 15:10-20), Acts 10:9-20
Now
we don’t have to read any of the other words because using common sense we can
find that these scriptures are not a good foundation for proving that you can
now eat animals that are unclean. Let us begin understanding that when Yahshua
gave his parable in Matthew 15, Peter was right there with him and he was also
confused about what the parable was. So when the disciples asked Yahshua for the
meaning of the parable Peter would have heard the explanation.
The
explanation given by Yahshua of course was not that the disciples could go and
eat pork or shell fish but that it was about the condition of the heart. This is
proven by the fact that ten or more years after the Messiah had ascended to
Heaven, Peter than has a dream. In this dream Peter is told three times to eat
unclean things (Acts 10). Now had the Savior said anything about eating pork in
our earlier account Peter would have exclaimed that since Yahshua gave them
permission to eat pork that he would go ahead and eat it. But Peter actually
refused! Not only that but we read later in the chapter that he recognized what
the dream was really all about, it was not about food at all but it was
accepting people or gentiles into the covenant of the Messiah:
Acts
10:27-29; Acts 10:34-38
But
of course churchianity teaches that all things are done away because they are
mentioned and given to Moses. All except of course tithing, they have really
hung to that one!
But
let us review something important with the commandment given to Moses regarding
the clean food laws. We read about the clean food laws in Lev 11, there we are
told what we can and can’t eat. Most of churchianity believes that this is the
only place where the unclean food laws is given and so they ignore everything
else. However doing a little bit of research we find that the clean food laws
were actually given to Noah and they were actually given to all of the
patriarchs. We find in the book of Genesis many years before Moses came on the
scene a commandment that Noah was to take two of each kind of animals, everyone
pretty much gets that one right?
However
when you ask most people about how many clean animals Noah was supposed to have
taken in the Ark, most in churchianity do not know. The answer is given to us in
Genesis chapter 7 verses 1 to 4:
So
the common sense question is, how did Noah know which animals were clean or
unclean if the list was not given until Moses many years after him? The common
sense answer is that Noah must have been told. So by using common sense we find
that churchianitie’s stance that we don’t have to obey the clean food laws
is not found on scripture but on the doctrines of man. This has cost them
greatly as every year thousands of them die of diseases that could be avoided if
they simply obeyed the One that created their food.
Now I am not going to say too much about the Hebrew Names or argue as to
whether or not it is important to use them. We obviously believe that it is both
very critical and very important that we call on the Names as we have been
commanded throughout Scripture. But using a common sense approach we can prove
that whether you believe that you should use the names or not, the issue is that
you understand the fact that neither Hebrew nor the Aramaic language contain the
letter J in their vocabulary nor in their alphabet. In other words it would have
been impossible for our Savior to have had a name with a sound that would not
have been a part of the Hebrew language. If I was to ask any American who only
speaks English to give me a English name or word that contains the letter ‘ñ’
they
would not be able to do it because neither our language nor alphabet contain
this letter. However if I was to ask somebody who speaks Spanish to do this they
would have no problem.
So
using common sense and knowing that our Savior was Jewish or an Israelite from
the tribe of Judah and who only spoke Hebrew or Aramaic and whose parents were
themselves Israelites all of whom were raised in a Hebrew culture; we find that
churchianitie’s notion that our savior could have a name with a letter whose
sound was not and is not part of their alphabet or language is not based on
truth but on doctrines of man.
Interestingly
enough if you check an encyclopedia on the letter J you will find that the
letter J did not come to be used as a consonant in our English Language until
the seventeenth century. So it is fairly new!
Knowing
this we have to ask the question, should we follow man’s doctrines and
practices or do we follow the truth knowing that the truth sets us free?