There is no association. We don't weep for Tammuz. We don't care about Tammuz. We don't even necessarily weep. We fast and voluntarily deny ourselves pleasures of the world (well... we're supposed to anyway...) like Jesus did in Mark 1, Matthew 4, and Luke 4.
Maybe you should tell Jesus that spending 40 days in the desert was a bad idea since it loosely seems to mimic something some pagans once did. (Speaking of which, pagans prayed too... maybe Christians should stop praying?) :help:
When you copy and paste from websites, that makes it look like you don't have a mind of your own.According to Catholics, Lent is derived from the 40 days Yeshua spent fasting in the wilderness, but it is admitted that the observance of Lent was unknown to the disciples and it did not find its way into the church until several centuries after the time of the Messiah. Lent was an indispensible preliminary to the great annual festival in commemoration of the death and resurrection of Tammuz -- which was celebrated by alternate weeping and rejoicing. So the 40 days of Lent is connected with the Babylonian goddess Ashtoreth/ Astarte/Ishtar (the origin of the word Easter), and the worship of Tammuz.
SPITFIRE said,
When you copy and paste from websites, that makes
it look like you don't have a mind of your own.
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SPITFIRE, do you hold LENT or EASTER as Important to you - if so,
then you are disobeying God.
We have the Mind of Christ or didn't you know that ?
1 Corinthians 2:16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him?
But we have the mind of Christ.
Philippians 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Isaiah 58:1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet,
and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
For ALL Christians Easter is observed in remembrance of the crucifixion, burial and resurrection of Christ Jesus, no pagan worship.
For all CHRISTIANS, he said.PJ said:For ALL Christians Easter is observed in remembrance of the crucifixion, burial and resurrection of Christ Jesus, no pagan worship.
Gerald Massey, Robert Taylor, Alvin Boyd Kuhn, and myriads of other scholars disagree with ya, I know their all wrong.