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Friday, November 24, 2017

Why do Christians follow the "Gregorian Calendar"?

Information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar

There is NO indication that the Gregorian Calendar holds any "value" for timing of biblical events in the past or in the future, but as a recreation of ancient pagan practices.

Other types of calendar structure includes the "Lunar Calendar" structure, "Solar-Lunar Calendar" structure (Qumran calendar is based off of this and can be coordinated by 57 year metonic cycles) , "Venus Calendar" fits into the Qumran calendar by patterns of seven years or 56 year cycles......so on and so forth.

It could be any of the following reasons:

1. They don't know anything about the Qumran Calendar and how it works. or Astronomy/Calendar Studies

2. They were never influenced by middle east cultures or people which used lunar based calendars.  There are also other calendars such as a "Venus Calendar"(morning star) and other ways to calculate times and days.

3. They are conditioned to "ignore" the Old Testament holidays, such as Purim.

4. They believe that it is impossible to determine when Jesus was born based on the scripture so they continue to believe in Dec. 25th as the best way to celebrate out of fear.

5. They don't like the idea that "heathen" cultures used different types of lunar or even planetary based calendar structures. (Falling Leaves Moon, Sugar Moon (maple sap) etc.)

6. They never learned how the Jewish people calculate the Passover month of the year based on the Barley harvest.

7. They assume that only the "shadow of the sun" matters when it comes to timing of the events in the church and life in general.  Keeping up with the time....keeping up with the Jones'es

8. They have yet to understand how animals function in behavior ways based on the timing of the moon phases and the season change. (A whippoorwill for example)

9. They assume anti-s emetic things about the Jewish people and that they constantly want Babylonian traditions rather than the gospels, so why bother learning biblical calendar and cycles. Which this is not true, Jewish people do love their redeemer!  And they can continue to understand biblical calendar cycles. (note: website does not site Qumran method of calculating heavenly signs)

10. They don't want to learn how the "new moon" conditions were changed by -MEN- while God maintains the same method of time and seasons in the sky.  (note: website does not believe that the "Sabbath Day" is ok according to Qumran calculations)

11. They might not be true Christians in the first place.  They never repented of anything!  Traditions matter more than the truth to their lives.

*One thing that Christians MUST understand is that the Gregorian Calendar is NOT the creator's calendar.  If that was true, then God would assume that it is important to worship the "sun" rather than understanding that God himself created sun, moon, stars, planets and other things in heaven and earth.

*Second note: A specific calendar does not save a person from sin.  Ancestors in the past who were saved and did not have access to Qumran-based calculations could still have been saved.

*Third note: Before the gospel arrived in some areas of the world people were doing wicked things!  Cannibalism and other gross sins.  So just because Christianity was needed even if the missionaries only knew the Gregorian calendar, doesn't mean that the Christians were wrong unless they were false-Christians.  (don't believe the lies that Christian missionaries always brought along rapists etc.....no, some of the tribes were violent)

---Essentially there are 7 basic holidays that are significant and it is fairly easy to locate the biblical holidays listed directly in the bible:

*Find the full -moon every three years after the spring equinox.  This determines timing for Passover, First Fruits, Feast of Unleavened Bread and 50 days later Pentecost/Feast of Weeks

*Find the full-moon every three years immediately before the fall equinox.  This determines the timing for the Feast of Trumpets, Day of Atonement, and Feast of Tabernacles.

*Other basic holidays may also be calculated from a certain number of days from these feasts when the days are determined. -Tish B' Av. -Feast of Dedication (Hanukkah) -Purim and so forth.


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You could find the creator's yearly calendar(based off of Qumran Calendar):

-Meet each sabbath.  This is official and not offensive to any holiday structure before knowledge of Qumran Calendar.

-Recognize the Full moon of Abib as the beginning of the calendar-cycle every three years (1092 days).  Assume AD 31. used calendar cycle 1.



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