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What is now known as Ash Wednesday and Lent was based on the 325 A.D. Catholic Church Dictum of the First Council of Nicaea as “… a time of preparation of candidates for baptism and a time of penance for grievous sinners who were excluded from receiving Holy Communion and were preparing for their restoration.  As a sign of their penitence, they wore sackcloth and were sprinkled with ashes.”  Which had nothing whatsoever to do with Easter or Spring. In 601 A.D., Pope Gregory I (Saint Gregory the Great;…

I grew up hearing about “getting saved”, inviting Jesus into your heart, the rapture, going to heaven, blessing and cursings, etc.  I followed that teaching until I learned the truth about God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit … it took decades of study. One of the things that I learned, very early, is that what I believed was only giving me false hope … the various Churches I attended over the years were not teaching the Truth According to Scripture.…