I won't force your hand. If anyone else desires those Biblical passages... I will list them. You obviously are having a difficult time answering the question.
Well....I've had a request to list the biblical passages of the first century where the Apostles (or the Church) are observing Feast Days that modern Christianity disdains because of false traditions that have crept in to our liturgy. Many folks are led to believe that "Presto Bingo"....the day after the resurrection....everything just changed. This is silly.
I started out on this thread observing the false doctrine of being born again but it quickly developed into something else.....practices and traditions of "Mainstream Christianity". Here are some example of the traditions and practices of the Apostles.....and we should ask ourselves.....why did these things disappear from our worship? I'll quote from "Young's Literal Translation".
[Acts 2:1]
And in the day of the Pentecost being fulfilled, they were all with one accord at the same place,
Shavuot, (Pentecost) of course is one of the three primary days that Yahweh had commanded us to observe [Exodus 23:14-17] and the Apostles are observing it here 50 days after the crucifixion.
[I Corinthians 16:8]
and I will remain in Ephesus till the Pentecost,
The above is about 25 years after the resurrection and is still marking time by it.
[Acts 20:16]
for Paul decided to sail past Ephesus, that there may not be to him a loss of time in Asia, for he hasted, if it were possible for him, on the day of the Pentecost to be at Jerusalem.
Why was it important to Paul to be in Jerusalem by Shavuot?
[Acts 12:3-4]
and having seen that it is pleasing to the Jews, he added to lay hold of Peter also — and they were the days of the unleavened food — whom also having seized, he did put in prison, having delivered [him] to four quaternions of soldiers to guard him, intending after the Passover to bring him forth to the people.
Most modern translations will say "Easter" instead of Passover. This is at least 5 or 6 years after the resurrection and the Apostles are still observing Passover.
[Acts 18:20-21]
and they having requested [him] to remain a longer time with them, he did not consent, but took leave of them, saying, ‘It behoveth me by all means the coming feast to keep at Jerusalem, and again I will return unto you — God willing.’ And he sailed from Ephesus,
The above takes place about 52 A.D. and Paul is still observing the Feast of Tabernacles, Sukkot. This is more than two decades after the resurrection.
[I Corinthians 5:8]
so that we may keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of evil and wickedness, but with unleavened food of sincerity and truth.
Paul again mentions Aquila and Priscilla sending their greetings from Corinth so the above takes place at the same time, same place mentioned in [Acts 18:20-21].....two decades after the resurrection.
[Acts 27:9]
And much time being spent, and the sailing being now dangerous — because of the fast also being already past — Paul was admonishing,
This is the Day of Atonement
....about 60 A.D. on his way to Rome....being sent there by Festus.....30 years after our Savior died. The Greek word used in this passage is NESTEUO which means "fast".....as in abstaining from food.
This is from Polycrates, a church father of the second century:
- From His Epistle to Victor and the Roman Church Concerning the Day of Keeping the Passover.
As for us, then, we scrupulously observe the exact day, neither adding nor taking away. For in Asia great luminaries have gone to their rest, who shall rise again in the day of the coming of the Lord, when He cometh with glory from heaven and shall raise again all the saints. I speak of Philip, one of the twelve apostles, who is laid to rest at Hierapolis; and his two daughters, who arrived at old age unmarried; his other daughter also, who passed her life under the influence of the Holy Spirit, and reposes at Ephesus;
John, moreover, who reclined on the Lord's bosom, and who became a priest wearing the mitre, and a witness and a teacher-he rests at Ephesus. Then there is Polycarp, both bishop and martyr at Smyrna; and Thraseas from Eumenia, both bishop and martyr, who rests at Smyrna. Why should I speak of Sagaris, bishop and martyr, who rests at Laodicea? of the blessed Papirius, moreover? and of Melito the eunuch, who performed all his actions under the influence of the Holy Spirit, and lies at Sardis, awaiting the visitation from heaven, when he shall rise again from the dead?
These all kept the passover on the fourteenth. day of the month, in accordance with the Gospel, without ever deviating from it, but keeping to the rule of faith.
Moreover I also, Polycrates, who am the least of you all, in accordance with the tradition of my relatives, some of whom I have succeeded-seven of my relatives were bishops, and I am the eighth, and my relatives always observed the day when the people put away the leaven-I myself, brethren, I say, who am sixty-five years old in the Lord, and have fallen in with the brethren in all parts of the world, and have read through all Holy Scripture, am not frightened at the things which are said to terrify us. For those who are greater than I have said,
"We ought to obey God rather than men."
Polycarp 70 A.D./155 A.D.
Polycarp is said to have been
among those converted by the Apostles, and to have been a disciple of St. John; on the other hand, his martyrdom took place c 155 CE. He thus represents the generation linking the age of the New Testament to that of the Apologists.
Polycarp's life is known mainly from the writings of his disciple Irenaeus of Lyons, made familiar to a wide audience by the extensive quotations in Eusebius. Irenaeus is depicted as the heir to the Johannine tradition; his uncompromising opposition to the heretic Marcion is equated with the evangelist's to Cerinthus. Polycarp was also a defender of the Johannine Passover date, and late in life made a visit to Rome for inconclusive talks on the subject with Pope Anicetus. Besides John, Polycarp was connected with another outstanding figure of the apostolic church: Ignatius of Antioch addressed an epistle to him.
Of Polycarp's life little is known, but that little is highly interesting. Irenaeus was his disciple, and tells us that "Polycarp was instructed by the apostles, and was brought into contact with many who had seen Christ"
