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   In 1 Thes. we find the "prove all things".  Friend james said he did that   
   to confirm the jw vatican claim that the day set aside to celebrate   
   Christ's Resurrection had a pagan origin.   
      
   He said in preinternet days he used his library to confirm the claim; so   
   the jw vatican can be accepted as a credable source.   
      
   That almost certinly meant using the  3 or so common encyclopedias, chief   
   among them the encyclopedia britannica.  A question, what was the exact   
   historical source for the "pagan" idea friend james found?   
      
   The "ever brighter light" of science God provides has also included an   
   increase in the widespread growth of access to historical info. What would   
   the current encyclopedia britannica provide friend james to judge the   
   credability of jw vatican claims?  Here is the answer on the "pagan source"   
   claim:   
      
   "Given the determination with which Christians combated all forms of   
   paganism (the belief in multiple deities), this appears a rather dubious   
   presumption. There is now widespread consensus that the word derives from   
   the Christian designation of Easter week as in albis, a Latin phrase that   
   was understood as the plural of alba ("dawn") and became eostarum in Old   
   High German, the precursor of the modern German and English term. The Latin   
   and Greek Pascha ("Passover") provides the root for P ues, the French word   
   for Easter."   
      
   So we can expect friend james will want all the folk at the "hall" to know   
   this, and so the jw vatican with this "brighter light" will abandon the   
   "pagan" claim.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)