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[Note: <\/strong>This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2<\/strong> page.]<\/span><\/p>\n The \u201cEaster\u201d season, involves much more than \u201cEaster Sunday.\u201d It begins with…<\/span><\/p>\n The \u201cLenten season\u201d (celebrated by Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and many Protestant denominations), is a time during which celebrants are urged repent of and abstain from some vice and\/or make some \u201csacrifice.\u201d Mardi Gras is the Lent-observer\u2019s last chance to engage in excess and uninhibited behavior before the self-denial of Lent limits his or her behavior. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n All of the above are practiced in the name of Christianity, which, if genuine, must seek its authority from Jesus Christ, its Founder and Namesake, via His New Testament. <\/strong>Which of these items is even mentioned in the Bible\u2014all, three, two, any of them? The correct answer is four<\/strong> of them, but in no way related to any of the foregoing practices<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n Easter <\/em>appears in the King James Version (Acts 12:4), but as an unfortunate and erroneous interpretation <\/strong>rather than a correct translation<\/strong>. This passage refers to the Jewish Passover feast, rather than to Jesus\u2019 Resurrection, as subsequent versions correctly translate.<\/span><\/p>\n As sincere as many people are in their observance of Lent, Ash Wednesday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday (certainly so of Mardi Gras!), none of these has any Biblical origin or basis whatsoever. Rather, they reflect a blend of the post-apostolic traditions and Paganism of the Roman Catholic Church, several centuries too late to possess any semblance of Scriptural authority.<\/span><\/p>\n The extremes to which some have gone in observing Lent may be seen in some religionists who have been seduced by the left-wing political hoax of man-made \u201cclimate change.\u201d One group has offered a \u201cLenten Carbon Fast\u201d Calendar, urging such self-sacrifices as altering one\u2019s thermostat setting, stopping window\/door drafts, checking one\u2019s auto tire pressure, and buying \u201crenewable energy credits.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The entire Easter system\/calendar is totally devoid of Biblical example or precept\u2014even without the \u201cclimate change\u201d absurdity. It is difficult to understand how millions of people can profess to follow Christ while they thus disdain His Word.<\/span><\/p>\n [Note: <\/strong>I wrote this article for and it appeared in a slightly shorter version in the Denton Record-Chronicle, <\/em>Denton, TX, April 18, 2014.]<\/span><\/p>\n Attribution: <\/strong>From TheScripturecache.com<\/em>, owned and administered by Dub McClish.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Views: 3[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2 page.] The \u201cEaster\u201d season, involves much more than \u201cEaster Sunday.\u201d It begins with… \u201cMardi Gras\u201d (French for \u201cFat Tuesday,\u201d also called \u201cShrove Tuesday\u201d), referring to the day before the beginning of…<\/p>\n\n
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