can a christian or a Christ follower celebrate the jewish holliday Passover?
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i do not see a problem at all.  we as christians know that our\npassover lamb is JESUS. and \n i think we as engrafted people(gentiles)\nshare in the jewish heritage as Gods chosen people.
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The Passover is a Jewish holiday to remember how God saved the Jewish people from Pharoah.  \nGod told the Pharoah, if he doesn't let the Jewish people go from slavery, the first born of every family would die.\n\nGod also provided a way out of this judgement: A sacrifice lamb was offered, and the people had to "mark their doorway", and God "passed over" their house.  Those that had their door marked were spared any deaths.  However, the Pharoah lost his son, because he didn't believe what God told him.  \n\nJesus was celebrating the Passover meal with his diciples, and fulfilled the "3rd cup".  \n\nNow, there are many Christians who also celebrate Passover, because of how Jesus fulfilled this prophecy.
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Yes, Jesus was Jewish until He fulfilled the Old Law and brought in the New Law, which we call Christianity because we accepted Him as the Christ. The New Law allows us to eat pork, which was formerly forbidden.\nMy family happens to eat Tamales for Christmas. Yum! Our ancestors were from Castile, Spain, so that is our tradition.
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They Have Hanukkah at the same time as Christmas .\nIf you notice every major christian holiday co-insides with their major holiday .\nThey had major holidays before the Christians .\nIf you remember Christ was supposedly at a Seder ?
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No, it was one of many pagan festivals introduced into the perversion of Christianity that was the catholic church. The best guess is that Christ was born around Purim, a festival of the Jews. This ties in with the enrollment/taxation Luke describes.
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Hey Roy,\n\nTo give you a better answer, perhaps you could provide references of the religions that promote tolerance of other religions?  I haven't found any yet.  I have found refs that say we shouldn't (as Christians) attempt to cause the fall of an Jews observance by inviting into your home and then serving food you know he cannot eat, but beyond that....?\n\nAs an American I am "tolerant" of your right to exist and believe as you see fit.... but I won't be "celebrating" it.  It's best not to confuse tolerance with celebration.
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I am Jewish, Christians come to synagogue all the time for Bar Mitzvahs and parties. It is never a problem though. They provide keepas or head coverings for you at the synagogue. You don't have to sing or say prayers, just be respectful and when the leader says to go to a page, just go to that page and pretend. Sometimes there is even English translation of the left that you can read while everyone else is reading the Hebrew.
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If you mean following all the Jewish ritual requirements, there is nothing against doing that.  However St. Paul and the other early leaders decided not to require this of non-Jewish followers of Christ.
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Yes, I celebrate the eight traditional sabbats; or did while My Steve, my high priest, was alive.  Now I mostly note that they have come (he died just before Yule), and remember what we would have done in our rituals.\n\nI also celebrate the Christian holidays because my friends and neighbors include me in their celebrations, and I notice the Jewish holidays because Steve's mother and sister are Jews.  He was too, genetically, but he always said I liked Jews better than he did!\n\nPersonally, I say any excuse for a party!
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Christmas does not celebrate Christ; it celebrates the pagan Saturnalia. As this question notes, Jesus was not even born in December. Nearly all so-called Christmas customs dishonor Christ.\n\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/19981215/article_02.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/20001215/\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/20041215/article_01.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/19981215/\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/rq/article_11.htm\n\n\nBy contrast, it's tragic that the one holiday Christ actually *DID* ask Christians to commemorate is entirely ignored by almost all of Christendom. It is, of course, the Memorial of Christ's death, sometimes called "the Last Supper" or "the Lord's Evening Meal".\n\n(1 Corinthians 11:23-25, NWT) The Lord Jesus in the night in which he was going to be handed over took a loaf... Keep doing this in remembrance of me.” 25 He did likewise respecting the cup.. Keep doing this... in remembrance of me.” \n\n(1 Cor 11:24, 25, NEB) "Do this as a memorial of me.” \n\n\nChrist Jesus himself personally celebrated and explained the significance of that Last Supper to his followers (see Matthew 26:26-29). Christians who commemorate the Last Supper have done so on the same Jewish calendar date as Jesus did, Nisan 14, which generally falls between late March and mid-April. Interestingly, Christians in the centuries immediately after Christ's impalement were sometimes called "Quartodecimans" which literally mean "Fourteen-ers", because the early Christians were well-known for this true holy day.\n\nHow would Jesus feel to learn that the holiday he commanded was widely ignored, while his so-called followers chose to celebrate a pagan false god and their own traditions of men? We don't need to wonder.\n\n(Matthew 15:6-9) You have made the word of God invalid because of your tradition. 7 You hypocrites, Isaiah aptly prophesied about you when he said, 8 ‘This people honors me with their lips, yet their heart is far removed from me. 9 It is in vain that they keep worshiping me, because they teach commands of men as doctrines.’”\n\nLearn more:\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/lmn/article_08.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/rq/article_11.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/20041215/article_02.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/20011115/article_02.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/20050101a/\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/jt/
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Heron by the Sea, I still stick to my answer below, but I appreciate your information.\n\nSchneb, I appreciate your kind words,   Bill\n\nTime of his death. \n\nThe death of Jesus Christ took place in the spring, on the Passover Day, Nisan (or Abib) 14, according to the Jewish calendar. (Mt 26:2; Joh 13:1-3; Ex 12:1-6; 13:4) That year the Passover occurred on the sixth day of the week (counted by the Jews as from sundown on Thursday to sundown on Friday). This is evident from John 19:31, which shows that the following day was “a great” sabbath. The day after Passover was always a sabbath, no matter on what day of the week it came. (Le 23:5-7) But when this special Sabbath coincided with the regular Sabbath (the seventh day of the week), it became “a great one.” So Jesus’ death took place on Friday, Nisan 14, by about 3:00 p.m.—Lu 23:44-46.
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Assuming a title (e.g. 'Christian') is NOT enuf for much of anything.\n\nThose who look for the easy way & short cuts to His Salvation will be greatly disappointed, some day.\n\nGod gives the free gift of His Salvation, Yeshua (aka "Jesus"), to those who love Him & obey His Law. They pattern their life after the Messiah who was sinless by living a perfectly Torah-compliant life. If Yeshua had deviated at all from the Word of God, it would have disqualified Him from being the unblemished Passover Lamb of God Sacrifice for the sins of the world. He set the example for how  we should try to live. He is the Way, the Truth, & the Life.\n\nYeshua did not collect followers who ~just believe~ or call themselves a ~follower~ ...begrudgingly giving an hour a week to an assembly of like-minded believers. He collected disciples &  apostles who lived the faith 24-7; they put on His yoke; they picked up a cross; they accepted their missions. They had circumcised hearts which submits their personal will to God's will.\n\nSatan & his demons know God & believe Jesus is the Savior - but that  won't save them - they are rebellious, they don't obey God's Law/will - they  are lost.\n\nPagan traditions of man are abominations to God. Do not mix in the ~better ideas~  that some cults & denominations claim is Ok, "because now we are saved by Grace, not by what we do or don't do."\n\nIf you celebrate Sunday Sabbath, Easter Sunday, Christmas, etc you are not following the Messiah! Those religions follow the decrees of a pagan Roman Emperor, Constantine, & they follow Pope Sylvester I who claimed the power & authority to change God's Law.
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Messianic ""Jews"" take the rituals of Jewish holidays and holy days and life cycle events, and inject interpretations of Jesus into all of them.\n\nFrom the Jewish perspective this is ridiculous. It would be as if a moslem took the Eucharist, the communion, and said that the rituals of it point to Mohammed, but Christians are too blind to see this truth, a result of a veil being over their minds. \n\nThen, it would be like a large group of these moslems saying that they practice the real form of Christianity, and that they are "completed Christians" because they understand that the Eucharist is actually about Mohammed.\n\nPLEASE look at http://WhatJewsBelieve.org/explanation10.html\nand\nhttp://WhatJewsBelieve.org/explanation09.html
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Jehovah's Witnesses are Christians; they teach that Christ was and is divine and of the same nature as God.\n\nJehovah's Witnesses teach that no salvation occurs without Christ, that accepting Christ's sacrifice is a requirement for true worship, that every prayer must acknowledge Christ, that Christ is the King of God's Kingdom, that Christ is the head of the Christian congregation, that Christ is immortal and above every creature, even that Christ was the 'master worker' in creating the universe!\n\nJehovah's Witnesses love and respect and honor Christ.\n\nBut Christmas does not celebrate Christ; it celebrates the pagan Saturnalia. Jesus was not even born in December. Nearly all so-called Christmas customs dishonor Christ.\n\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/19981215/article_02.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/20001215/\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/20041215/article_01.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/19981215/\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/rq/article_11.htm\n\n\nBy contrast, it's tragic that the one holiday Christ actually *DID* ask Christians to commemorate is entirely ignored by almost all of Christendom. It is, of course, the Memorial of Christ's death, sometimes called "the Last Supper" or "the Lord's Evening Meal".\n\n(1 Corinthians 11:23-25, NWT) The Lord Jesus in the night in which he was going to be handed over took a loaf... Keep doing this in remembrance of me.” 25 He did likewise respecting the cup.. Keep doing this... in remembrance of me.” \n\n(1 Cor 11:24, 25, NEB) "Do this as a memorial of me.” \n\n\nChrist Jesus himself personally celebrated and explained the significance of that Last Supper to his followers (see Matthew 26:26-29). Christians who commemorate the Last Supper have done so on the same Jewish calendar date as Jesus did, Nisan 14, which generally falls between late March and mid-April. Interestingly, Christians in the centuries immediately after Christ's impalement were sometimes called "Quartodecimans" which literally mean "Fourteen-ers", because the early Christians were well-known for this true holy day.\n\nHow would Jesus feel to learn that the holiday he commanded was widely ignored, while his so-called followers chose to celebrate a pagan false god and their own traditions of men? We don't need to wonder.\n\n(Matthew 15:6-9) You have made the word of God invalid because of your tradition. 7 You hypocrites, Isaiah aptly prophesied about you when he said, 8 ‘This people honors me with their lips, yet their heart is far removed from me. 9 It is in vain that they keep worshiping me, because they teach commands of men as doctrines.’”\n\nLearn more:\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/lmn/article_08.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/rq/article_11.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/20041215/article_02.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/20011115/article_02.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/20050101a/\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/jt/
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Yes a follower of Christ is a Christian... please get to the point... Jews do not follow Christ, they cannot be called Christians. Muslims believe in Jesus but not that He is the Christ so they are not Christ followers. Im not yelling at you but cant you see why we cant come together and say "we're all christians" because we are not and Jews and Muslims will never say they are.
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I don't celebrate either one. I choose as Paul said not to " esteem one day above the next." I treat each day as a day to love and praise my Father for sending Jesus to show me the Way! The days you mention are man's teachings not the teachings of The Spirit of God.
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Hebrews 10:24, 25 "And let us consider one another to incite to love and fine works, not forsaking the gathering of ourselves together, as some have the custom, but encouraging one another, and all the more so as YOU behold the day drawing near"\n\nOn various occasions, large crowds assembled before Jesus Christ, realizing many benefits, as in the case of the Sermon on the Mount. (Mt 5:1–7:29) While these were not like specially arranged assemblies, at times they lasted long enough to make necessary the feeding of the congregated multitudes, a circumstance that Jesus met with the miraculous multiplication of food. (Mt 14:14-21; 15:29-38) Often Christ gathered his disciples and gave them spiritual instruction, and after his death his followers met together, as on the day of Pentecost 33 C.E., when the holy spirit was bestowed upon such assembled ones.—Ac 2:1-4.\n\nIt was the custom of early Christians to meet together, generally in small groups. However, sometimes at their gatherings “quite a crowd” would assemble. (Ac 11:26) Jesus’ half brother James found it appropriate to give spiritual Israelites counsel against showing favoritism toward the rich at a public gathering (Gr., sy·na·go·ge´) of the congregation.—Jas 2:1-9.\n\nImportance of Assembling. The importance of taking full advantage of Jehovah’s provisions for assembling to gain spiritual benefits is emphasized in connection with the annual Passover observance. Any male who was clean and was not on a journey but who neglected to keep the Passover was to be cut off in death. (Nu 9:9-14) When King Hezekiah called inhabitants of Judah and Israel to Jerusalem for a Passover celebration, his message was, in part: “You sons of Israel, return to Jehovah . . . do not stiffen your neck as your forefathers did. Give place to Jehovah and come to his sanctuary that he has sanctified to time indefinite and serve Jehovah your God, that his burning anger may turn back from you. . . . Jehovah your God is gracious and merciful, and he will not turn away the face from you if you return to him.” (2Ch 30:6-9) Willful failure to attend would certainly have indicated a forsaking of God. And, while such festivals as the Passover are not observed by Christians, Paul fittingly urged them not to abandon regular assemblies of God’s people, stating: “Let us consider one another to incite to love and fine works, not forsaking the gathering of ourselves together, as some have the custom, but encouraging one another, and all the more so as you behold the day drawing near.”—Heb 10:24, 25\n\nThe Bible lays down principles of upbuilding associations (1Co 15:33; Heb 10:24, 25; Pr 5:3-11; 13:20)\n\nGatherings for the worship of God and a consideration of his law were important in the congregation of Israel. (De 31:12; Ne 8:1-8) Similarly, meetings for the worship of Jehovah and a study of the Scriptures are an essential feature of the Christian congregation of God, the writer to the Hebrews admonishing the recipients of his letter not to be forsaking such gathering of themselves together. (Heb 10:24, 25) Activities in the synagogues of later Jewish history included the reading and teaching of the Scriptures, the offering of prayers, and the giving of praise to God. Such features were carried over into places of Christian assembly, though without the ritualistic accretions that had eventually developed in synagogue services. In the synagogue no sacerdotal class was set apart, sharing in Scripture reading and exposition being open to any devout male Jew. Comparably, no clergy-laity or similar division existed within the early Christian congregation. Of course, neither therein nor in the synagogue did the women teach or exercise authority over the men.—1Ti 2:11, 12.\n\nJesus’ disciples followed his footsteps in Christian educational work . They not only preached the good news of God’s Kingdom everywhere but also taught those who would listen. (Ac 2:42) They, like