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In Rome and other Western locales, they calculated Passover in the year that Jesus died as occurring on March 25. Eastern Christian communities used a Greek calendar that placed the same Passover on April 6. Add nine months, and early Christianity came up with two traditional Christmas dates:...
sn Your kingdom come represents the hope for the full manifestation of God’s promised eschatological rule reflected in the OT prophetic literature, the ongoing hope of the Jewish people, a hope which is subsumed by Christianity. Luke 11:3 tn Or “Give us bread each day for the coming day...
It contains no mention of Christianity or Jesus Christ. In fact, the Constitution refers to religion only twice in the First Amendment, which bars laws “respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” and in Article VI, which prohibits “religious tests” for...