TONGUES of the Pentecostal altar.

"Guide for the Perplexed" the fundamental idea that God is incorporeal, meaning that He assumes no physical form. God is Eternal, above time. He is Infinite, beyond space. He cannot be born, and cannot die. Saying that God assumes human form makes God small, diminishing both His unity and His divinity. As the Torah says: "God is not a mortal" (Numbers 23:19) 

Num 23:19  "God is not a human who lies or a mortal who changes his mind. When he says something, he will do it; when he makes a promise, he will fulfill it. 

TONGUES speaking in.

“Here is where I must speak to the world of the Pentecostal altar. The UPC has such a strong stress on the necessity of speaking in tongues for salvation that an altar service can appear to be a total frenzy. It is common to hear seekers crying and begging God to save them. You can also hear people shouting, "Just say, 'Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,' over and over, real fast." Or, "Say 'hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah' over and over real fast." Some are saying, "Turn loose!" Still others are saying, "Hang on!" The person in the altar is being drawn into an emotionally charged atmosphere.”

"Hear an alleged tongues and interpretation where "God" says his mercy is gone, he's going to turn against someone(s) in that church and will pour out his wrath that night." @ 9:30  [1]

WARNING: GRAPHIC

 “Do you believe in the baptism of the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in tongues?” 

Firstly, the term “ghost” is a derogatory reference to the Most Holy, Blessed be He. God is not a ghost, but a Sacred Spirit Being. ‘Ghost’ applies more specifically and commonly to a ‘spook’ or phantom. God’s Sacred Spirit fills the heavens of heavens and indwells the souls of those of mankind who let Him in. The result of this indwelling varies from person to person as to the ‘amount’ of this Presence (strong or weak) and the nature or evidence of its Presence. The book of Corinthians ch 13 clearly defines this blessed feature of the “baptism of the Holy Spirit” and clearly contradicts the claims of so many Pentecostal believers that it is an ‘exclusive’ feature given to selected believers with the ‘evidence’ of speaking in tongues’. Let us look at some of these statements, after which one should read the entire chapter in context to define that the real exclusive feature of the Presence of the Holy Spirit in a person is LOVE – and then NOT the type of Love that is generally displayed in this world which gives license to illicit sex, and even murder, as the killer of Sharon Tate declared after knifing her 36 times! 1 Cor. 13:4 defines some traits of this HS Love which is often notably absent in those who insist on “tongues” as the exclusive sign. “Love does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth….” 

This Love is eternal, as God is Eternal…. (v8) “…but … prophecies will cease; …tongues will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.” 

1 Cor. 1:1 “ If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.” 

These “strange tongue for all…”insistent ignore the clear directive given in 1 Cor. 12: 29 “Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? 30 Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret? 31 Now eagerly desire the greater gifts.” (Love). 

Just prior to this, the author takes great care to confirm that: 

Verse 4 “There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. 5 There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. 6 There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work. 

7 Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. 8 To one (NOT ALL!) there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another (NOT ALL!) a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, 9 to another (NOT ALL!) faith by the same Spirit, to another (NOT ALL!) gifts of healing by that one Spirit, 10 to another (NOT ALL!) miraculous powers, to another (NOT ALL!)prophecy, to another (NOT ALL!) distinguishing between spirits, to another (NOT ALL!) speaking in different kinds of tongues,[a] and to still another (NOT ALL!) the interpretation of tongues.[b] 11 All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he distributes them to each one, just as he determines.” 

Yet, many believers insist that we all should be speaking in tongues. 

Now, a teaching which normally goes hand in hand with this, is that “we are no longer under the Law”, that “Being under Law is being under the Curse” … yet many of these believers will testify of the Blessing for paying Tithes (according to the Law of Moses)! 

Clearly, something drastic is wrong, apart from the fact of common sense, that God surely cannot rule the World without Law! But, this is a topic too vast to even attempt to answer here.  [2]

See: 5 New Testament Questions that virtually all Christian Ministers are unable to answer correctly according to the Bible:

1: How does the Scriptures define our Love for God?

2: How do we know that we know the true God?

3: How do we know that we love the Children of God?

4: The New Covenant pertains to whom; The House of Judah, The House of Yisrael, or the Church?

5: How do we enter into eternal life?

# 1. How does the Scriptures define our Love for God? 

Much has been spoken and written about the subject of "love." The greatest statement about "love" is the "Great Commandment." Its two commands revolve around practicing "love." The Great Commandment is found in several places. Matthew 22:37-40 is one of the most complete presentations.

Mat 22:36 "Rabbi, which of the mitzvot in the Torah is the most important?"

Mat 22:37 He told him, "`You are to love ADONAI your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.'

Mat 22:38 This is the greatest and most important mitzvah.

Mat 22:39 And a second is similar to it, `You are to love your neighbor as yourself.'

Mat 22:40 All of the Torah and the Prophets are dependent on these twomitzvot." (Commandments) 

Most never even come close to understanding and keeping the "Great Commandment." This is because most tend to redefine love in terms of their own emotional ideas or even worse, the "Hollywood" portrayals of "love." As Y'shua presented this "Great Commandment," He personally believed that it was the summation of all the commandments found in the Torah and the Prophets.
HaShem (G-d) defines "love" succinctly in His Word. Any human understanding of "love" MUST BE FOUNDED ON God's Own definition. More:


Rebbe Y'shua ("Torah Master Jesus") is among the most accomplished and misunderstood sages of Israel. 
His true teachings are completely Torah consistent when understood. 

This is a series of videos [below] to challenge people to search the scriptures, to see if what they were taught is actually in the Bible. Many of us heard things said over and over, so much so that we started believing the Bible verses were there. Sometimes we neglected to check. Other times we read things into a verse or pieced together passages to make a doctrine.

This video challenges you to see if you can find the phrase in the Bible, "with the evidence of speaking in tongues."

Scriptures:John the Apostle is known as "the apostle of love" (John 13:23). He understood Biblical "love" better than most. Yeshua used Yochanan (John) as the primary human author in His Word to define "love." Consider and ponder what God says through John:

Joh 14:15 "If you love me, you will keep my commands; 
Joh 14:21 Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me, and the one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him." 
Joh 14:23 Yeshua answered him, "If someone loves me, he will keep my word; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. 
Joh 15:10 If you keep my commands, you will stay in my love -- just as I have kept my Father's commands and stay in his love.
1Jn 2:5 But if someone keeps doing what he says, then truly love for God has been brought to its goal in him. This is how we are sure that we are united with him. 
1Jn 5:2 Here is how we know that we love God's children: when we love God, we also do what he commands. 
1Jn 5:3 For loving God means obeying his commands. Moreover, his commands are not burdensome, 
2Jn 1:6 Moreover, love is this: that we should live according to his commands. This is the command, as you people have heard from the beginning; live by it!

All these Scriptures have one MOST IMPORTANT detail in common. They all relate God's definition of "love" to (1) Knowing and (2) Keeping His commandments. All "love" begins here!

The preceding Scripture quotes were placed in the order of their occurrence in the Bible. However, two of these passages directly define love:

1Jn 5:3 For loving God means obeying his commands. Moreover, his commands are not burdensome, 
2Jn 1:6 Moreover, love is this: that we should live according to his commands. This is the command, as you people have heard from the beginning; live by it!

The love of God = that we keep His Commandments (1 John 5:3) and Love = walking according to His commandments (2 John 1:6)

Mat 5:17 "Don't think that I have come to abolish the Torah or the Prophets. I have come not to abolish but to complete.

Mat 5:18 Yes indeed! I tell you that until heaven and earth pass away, not so much as a yud or a stroke will pass from the Torah -- not until everything that must happen has happened.

Mat 5:19 So whoever disobeys the least of these mitzvot and teaches others to do so will be called the least in the Kingdom of Heaven. But whoever obeys them and so teaches will be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

# 5: How do we enter into eternal life?

Mat 19:16 A man approached Yeshua and said, "Rabbi, what good thing should I do in order to have eternal life?" He said to him,

Mat 19:17 "Why are you asking me about good? There is One who is good! But if you want obtain eternal life, observe the mitzvot." 

"The authors of the New Testament were completely unaware that the Church they had fashioned would eventually embrace a pagan deification of a triune deity. Although the worship of a three-part godhead was well known and fervently venerated throughout the Roman Empire and beyond in religious systems such as Hinduism and Mithraism, it was quite distant from the Judaism from which Christianity emerged. However, when the Greek and Roman mind began to dominate the Church, it created a theological disaster from which Christendom has never recovered. 

By the end of the fourth century, the doctrine of the Trinity was firmly in place as a central tenet of the Church, and strict monotheism was formally rejected by Vatican councils in Nicea and Constantinople.2

When Christendom adopted a triune godhead from neighboring triune religious systems, it spawned a serious conundrum for post-Nicene Christian apologists. How would they harmonize this new veneration of Jesus as a being who is of the same substance as the Father with a New Testament that portrays Jesus as a separate entity, subordinate to the Father, and created by God? How would they now integrate the teaching of the Trinity with a New Testament that recognized the Father alone as God? In essence, how would Christian apologists merge a first century Christian Bible, which was monotheistic, with a fourth century Church which was not?" Rabbi Tovia Singer 

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We are not living under the Law anymore.

The Truth is: We are all living the law!

Why do I call it a lie? Because it is not the truth. The Bible, especially the 'Old Testament' - What I would rather call the the First Covenant, has some translation errors in it.  The word "Torah" was wrongly translated as "LAW" instead of "Instructions".

The Torah contains the Law but isn't only the Law. The Torah is Father's instructions to us on how we should live our lives and how we should behave and act in certain circumstances. 

By calling the Torah the Law brought great deception to the church. People are accused of being legalistic: fanatically keeping the Law for salvation. That is a great deception in itself.

Keeping the Law has nothing to do with salvation - only with right living. Living the way the Almighty God intended us to live and designed and created us to live.

If you answer 'No' to one of the following are you not living the Law?

Are you stealing your neighbours's goods if he isn't looking?

Are you sleeping with his wife or your secretary or any woman other than your wife?

Are you killing people that makes you angry?

Are you lying about your co-workers or fellow 'church' members?

But then you are living the Law!!

If you answer 'Yes' to any of the following you might have to check your view on the Law:

Do you like to read the Psalms?

Do you read from the book of Proverbs?

Do you read anything from the Old Testament?

Have you taught your children the story of creation? or Noah and the ark? or David and Goliath?

Have you enjoyed reading the Old Testament at all?

Many Christians and churches like to quote Galations 3:13 to prove their point. 

Well, let's have a look at Gal 3:13-14  Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: 14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

"Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the Law."

What curse are we talking about? If you break the Law you die. Paul didn't call the Law a curse; he said that there is a curse built into the Law - break the Law and you die!

The Church is treating the Law as if there is something wrong with it!

Heb 8:7-11 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. 

8 For finding fault with them, he said, Behold, the days come, said the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: 

9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, said the Lord. 

10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, said the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: 

11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. 

Father NEVER found ANYTHING wrong with the Law (Torah). The fault was laying with them.

What is the new covenant? FATHER WILL PUT HIS LAWS INTO OUR MINDS, AND WRITE THEM IN OUR HEARTS; AND I BE TO THEM A GOD, AND THEY WILL BE TO ME A PEOPLE!

How is it that our Almighty Father didn't get the message? The Law was nailed to the Cross; it doesn't work anymore! Why does Father still want to write the LAW in our hearts?

I can tell you: Because the LAW is still applicable!!!

The LAW was never intended for salvation but for giving us the rules to live by; even today the LAW cannot be kept for salvation.

Why do we keep the LAW (Torah)? We keep the LAW (Torah) because we want to; because we LOVE our heavenly Father.

The word "Torah" in Hebrew is derived from the root ירה, which in the hifil conjugation means "to guide/teach" (cf. Lev. 10:11). The meaning of the word is therefore "teaching", "doctrine", or "instruction"; the commonly accepted "law" gives a wrong impression.

How many people have you seen lately walking around with just the New Testament. Although the Church says that the Law is no longer applicable, why do so many of those that say so still preach from the Old Testament - even directly out of the LAW -  the Torah?

May I ask? Have you that say that the Law has been nailed to the Cross, torn off the first part of your Bible - The Old Testament? Or are you carrying it with you not to spoil the nice leather cover?

I thought I'd just mention it . . . . . 

Judaism is the One Only True Faith proclaimed in the Bible. The Messiah proclaimed by Christianity is really a contortion of the True Hebrew Messiah Who was an orthodox Jew, addressed as Rabbi by His contemporaries. This Halachic Oral Torah confirming Jewish Messiah has been high-jacked by Christianity which presented Him as a Torah rejecting Christian. Christianity only started more than 2 centuries later as a vehemently anti-Jewish religion which persecuted the Jewish Messianic believers in the dungeons of Rome.
The message to the Jewish people from Christianity has been, “Jesus is the anti-Torah; forsake your Torah and come to Christ instead.”

A biblical truth, Yeshua and the christian Jesus are not the same people, Yeshua lived Torah and Jesus contradicted Moche and Torah in the Christian Church" The Roman anti-semtic gov/church twist scripture to their own destruction. Search the roots of your faith in ALL the scripture and you'll see too...[we] have inherited lies and falsehoods. (Jer 16:19) 

Therefore, dear friends, as you look for these things, do everything you can to be found by him without spot or defect and at peace. 15And think of our Lord's patience as deliverance, just as our dear brother Sha'ul (Paul) also wrote you, following the wisdom God gave him. 16 Indeed, he speaks about these things in all his letters. They contain some things that are hard to understand, things which the uninstructed and unstable distort, to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures. (2 peter 3)

SOURCE:

[1] http://youtu.be/LBpduMwCbkk

     http://youtu.be/FKFkAYK-RdE

[2] http://www.revelations.org.za/MenuTheWay.htm

Trusting that this will help you on your Way.

Blessings! 

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Christianity without the Cross: A History of Salvation in Oneness Pentecostalism [paperback]

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A study of the doctrine of salvation in the United Pentecostal Church and its immediate historical antecedents with a focus on the Pentecostal Church, Incorporated and prominent ministers such as Goss, Greer, Yadon, Gurley, Jacques, Stairs, Wickens and Paterson.

5.0 out of 5 stars History of Oneness Salvation 

By J. Istre

Format:Paperback

"When people think of the UPC, they immediately think of Holiness Standards, Jesus Name baptism, and Oneness theology. However, it has not always been this easy to describe Oneness people. The United Pentecostal Church (UPC) formed in 1945 with the merger of two organizations: Pentecostal Church, Incorporated (PCI) and the Pentecostal Assemblies of Jesus Christ (PAJC). The main difference between the organizations was the interpretation of the New Birth. Both organizations subscribed to Repentance, baptism by immersion in Jesus' name and receiving the Holy Spirit (Ghost) by glossolalia (speaking in tongues, or babbling incoherently). However, the largest faction of PAJC believed this three-step formula was required to enter heaven and avoid hell fire, whereas the PCI largely believed that one was justified at repentance and that water baptism and spirit filled glossolalia were not necessary to avoid hell fire. The merger language was very carefully chosen to bring these two groups together to agree on the fundamental doctrine. The phrase "full salvation" was the magic term that the PAJC interpreted to mean that the three steps were necessary, whereas the PCI position could interpret "full" to mean something more than mere "salvation" which to them was achieved at repentance. "Full salvation" to a PCI was indeed the three-step formula, but not defining for one's eternal destiny. Such was the agreement at the merger that ministers would not contend over this issue to the destruction of the new body called UPC. The problem appears to be that official publications of the UPC do not wish for many to know about the PCI tradition within the organization.

However, there was much contending for their own views, in rebellion against the merger agreement through the years by those who's views were the three-step Acts 2:38 formula or hell fire. As time progressed, this former PAJC faction became increasingly fanatical in their position and began to shove PCI ministers out of leadership positions. An effective propaganda campaign began to convert the PCI strongholds of the Pacific Northwest, the North Atlantic and Tennessee. By the beginning of the 1980's, the PCI position of moderation on the New Birth was effectively destroyed. The fanatics took over the organization and presided over a few purges through the years that reached its climax in 1992 with the Westberg Resolution aimed to kick out ministers that were "weak on the doctrine" which is a code word for those of the old PCI persuasion. Several distinguished men left the organization like Robert Sabin and C. H. Yadon. The official word from the organization was that the 1992 resolution did not affect many people. However, other sources reveal that several thousands of ministers left the organization over this resolution. Fudge shows that this resolution was passed without proper notice beforehand and without proper parliamentary procedure according to the UPC constitution.

The UPC might be called a relatively secretive organization; this book is sure to ruffle the feathers of a few who wish for this information to remain private. Dr. Fudge is a researcher that one must take seriously. There are tons of footnotes and tons of referenced interviews with current and former members. Current leaders of the UPC cannot leave this book in silence. One disturbing fact is that at one point, the UPC headquarters banned Fudge from doing research in their Historical Center in July 2000 unless he turned over his manuscript, the list of all people he contacted for interviews, and his interview tapes. Fudge declined this ridiculous demand and plowed forward with research from other sources.

Fudge also shows that the current interpretation of "Holiness Standards" is a relatively recent development in the organization: the practice of women wearing only dresses, women with uncut hair, and the prohibition of jewelry. Early leaders of the organization had wives with cut hair, jewelry and wore slacks because it was not an issue until later.

Now, the organization is obsessed with a narrow ideology: (1) 'Jesus' is the name of the Father and the Holy Spirit in addition to the name of the Son of God, (2) Jesus Name baptism and evidence of the Holy "Ghost" with speaking in tongues (glossolalia, or babbling under emotional ecstasy) are necessary to avoid hell fire, and (3) Holiness Standards are increasingly necessary to "stay" saved from hell fire. The first is an obvious heresy in Christianity and in some quarters defines this group outside of the definition of "Christian." The second and third are strange developments, although not unique in Christianity, but are indeed things that make this group fringe and largely ineffective. The title of the book comes from evidence that the organization is interested primarily in dunking people under water in Jesus Name baptism, getting them to talk in tongues, and then to move on to the next convert without ever introducing people to the message of Calvary - the Cross. Their message, for the most part and in most cases, is not the gospel, but a misinterpretation Acts 2:38 plus a few things here and there.

This book is a godsend to those of us who might have been part of UPC. It explains many of the strange things that happened over the years, the details of which the leadership wished to keep secret. It is as if Fudge looked at his research material and said to the UPC, "Thou hast been weighed in the balances and have been found wanting." Then he wrote this book as a "balance" to all the propaganda. Anyone thinking of joining the UPC or who might be new to the UPC should read this book to determine if this is a fellowship that a Christian should associate with and then make a proper determination on the merits. Those already UPC might also find this book useful for similar means." [sic]

Please Note:

1. Can a person be born again without baptism in Jesus name?

"The New Birth is a birth of water and spirit. Baptism is for the remission of sins, and is clearly a part of the great commission and of the gospel, being the representation and experience of the burial of Jesus Christ. The name of Jesus Christ is the only name which carries authority and spiritual power. Only the personal name of the God in Christ is taught by the Apostles as having access to the spiritual power of the blood." [sic]

Note: # 1.

“Born again” is NOT a Christian term?   It is a Jewish term!

• When Gentiles converted to Judaism, they were said to be born again.

• When a man was crowned king, he was said to be born again.

• When a Jewish boy has a bar mitzvah at the age of 13, he is said to be born again.

• When a Jewish person marries, he is said to be born again.

• When a Jewish person is ordained as a Rabbi, he is said to be born again.

• When a Jewish person becomes the head of a rabbinical school, he is said to be born again.

Jesus told Nicodemus, a teacher in Israel, “Except a man be born of water and the Spirit (Spirit of Truth which is being Torah observant), he cannot enter the kingdom of God.”

To “be born of water” was a Jewish expression for physical birth.

However, physical birth by itself is not sufficient to provide entrance into the Kingdom of God.

Man must be born of the Spirit – “Spirit of Truth” which is a metaphor for Torah, being Torah observant.  (an FYI) 

Note: # 2.  Jesus Christ is the only name which carries authority and spiritual power. ?

Jesus' real name is Y'shua

Rebbe Y'shua was renamed this by the Catholic Church as part of its efforts to distance their New Religion from its Jewish roots.

2. Can a person be born again without being baptized with the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in tongues?

the Ruach of HaShem (the inspiration of God)

RuachHeb) Spirit, wind.

Ruach HaKodesh

(Heb.) Divine Spirit

The term “ghost” is a derogatory reference to the Most Holy, Blessed be He. God is not a ghost, but a Sacred Spirit Being. ‘Ghost’ applies more specifically and commonly to a ‘spook’ or phantom. God is EVERYWHERE, ETERNAL, OMNIPRESENT.

God is One, the idea of God as a duality or trinity among gentiles may be Shituf (or "not purely monotheistic"). The term Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit) is found frequently in Talmudic and Midrashic literature. In some cases it signifies prophetic inspiration, while in others it is used as a hypostatization or a metonym for God. The Rabbinic “Holy Spirit,” has a certain degree of personification, but it remains, “a quality belonging to God, one of his attributes” and not, as in mainstream Christianity, representative of “any metaphysical divisions in the Godhead.”

1. Y'shua (Jesus) did not come to start a New Religion (Christianity)

His religion and the religion of the talmidim (Disciples) was Judaism.

2. Christianity started more than 2 centuries later as a vehemently anti-Jewish religion which persecuted the Jewish Messianic believers in the dungeons of Rome.

2. Do you keep the Feasts Days and Commandments of the Most High or do you celebrate Pagan festivals and Holidays, like Easter and Christmas?

4. Do you honor the Sabbath day and keep it Holy or do you follow the decry of the Pope to worship on Sunday? (The first day of the week) found nowhere in the bible.

Christianity was invented at the council of Nicaea in the 3rd century AD by the Roman emperor Constantine the great and others.
The original idea was to unite the various cultures within the Roman empire under a new religion that could be ruled from Rome (the church of Rome, later to be know as the Roman Catholic church).
The council decided to just take parts of the various religions within the empire and mash them into one religion.
There are parts of Judaism, Paganism, Greek mythology, Egyptian Saturn worship and others all spliced together to make up Christianity.

Interesting Christian word origin fact - 

The English word "Church" comes from the Scottish word "Kirk".
The Scottish word "Kirk" comes from the Roman word "Circ" (pronounced - sirs).
The Roman word "Circ" comes from the Greek word "Circe" (pronounced sirsae).
The Greek word "Circe" comes from the Greek mythology tale of "Mother Circe".

Mother Circe was an enchantress who would seek out those who were lost, invite them into her house and lock the door behind them so they could never leave. Once inside her house Mother Circe would feed them potions and cast spells on them that would put them in a trance so she could devour their bodies and souls.

Interesting choice of words for the Romans to pick for the place of worship for their new religion.Its all just renamed Pagan Sun worship.
All of it.

Sunday was not made the "official" Sabbath day until c364 CE, when

The Church Council of Laodicea ordered that religious observances were to be conducted on Sunday, not Saturday. Sunday became the new Sabbath.

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Saturday is the Biblical Sabbath as per the Old Testament and its followers in Judaism. However, since much of Roman Christianity was itself derived from Rome's earlier religion of Mithraism which had the solar deity Mithra at its centre, Sunday which had been the sacred day (called the Lord's Day) of Mithras was retained as holy in Christianity:

Sunday was sacred and known as "the Lord's Day" centuries before Jesus was ever born. [Link ]

In competing with the pre-Christian religion of Mithraism, the early Church yet again appropriated the ever-popular pagan observance of Sunday as the special day of the week.

Though they were willing to take over the same day as the followers of Mithras, the early Church fathers made it a point to choose a day separate from the one Jews observed in order to keep themselves distinct. Much after the fact, they reasoned that the choice of Sunday was because Jesus' Resurrection was supposed to have happened on this day. It is still the reason given by those denominations that have grown accustomed to keeping Sunday, as opposed to Saturday, holy.
Yet, the same is also true of Mithra:

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