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  • Shane VaughnDeuteronomy 4:2Series: STANDALONE BOOK

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    • ARE BIRTHDAYS PAGAN? A Biblical and Theological Examination The celebration of life is the celebration of the…

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    • …aughn First Harvest Ministries International Are Birthdays Pagan? The Question Before Us We refuse to add to the Torah, and we refuse to take away from it…

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  • Shane VaughnDeuteronomy 12:29-32Series: STANDALONE BOOK
    This booklet examines the origins of Christmas and argues that the holiday
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  • reborn. Thus, the worship of the mother and child began — a theme that would echo through every pagan religion for mil- lennia. In Babylon, they were Semiramis and Tammuz. In Egypt, Isis and Horus. In Phoenicia, Astarte and Baal ... supposed resurrection — the winter solstice — became the birthday of the sun god. Every year, as the days grew shorter and darkness increased, the pagans mourned the death of the sun. But when the sun began to rise again after
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  • people to abandon Torah, to cease Sabbath observance, to eat unclean foods, to abandon circumcision, and to embrace Greek paganism. Consider what happened during the Maccabean period: Many Jews chose Hellenization over Torah - they preferred unity with the Greeks over ... have already fallen away into lawlessness. They worship a false image of Messiah - one born on December 25th (the birthday of Tammuz/Mithras), one who supposedly abolished the Torah, one who changed Sabbath to Sunday and Passover to Easter. They prefer
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  • Shane Vaughn2026-03-03Series: STANDALONE BOOK
    deliverance. It is purely ad- ministrative — a bureaucratic solution to fill a calendar gap, sancti- fied by a pagan deity of ambiguity. The year now begins with a god who looks both ways and com- mits to neither ... tells you what to celebrate and what to ignore. It tells you where to spend your money (Christmas, birthdays, anniversaries) and where to spend your attention (Super Bowl Sunday, election night, New Year’s Eve). Your calendar determines your rhythms
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  • Shane VaughnMatthew 17:11Series: STANDALONE BOOK
    This book challenges the authority of the early Church Fathers by arguing
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    child preacher, beginning my ministry at the age of fifteen (15) (I was in fact ordained on my 15th birthday) I preached across the nation and in a few foreign countries the only message that I then knew and that ... have time to teach on this much needed understanding in this book but unfortunately most Christians believe the pagan lie that we all have immortal souls and that we go to heaven or hell the moment we die and thus
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