User talk:Chrisguidance

Hi Chris.

Based on your recent edits to Easter and Religious holiday, it appears that you're using a lot of material based on the discredited "Two Babylons" theories of Alexander Hyslop. The page on the Christian Answers website you link to does not mesh with any mainstream or scholarly understanding of ecclesiastical history, the religious or secular history of the Ancient Near East, historical linguistics or (in my opinion) sane theology. If you want to understand why your changes keep getting reverted, why not discuss them on the talk page for the article at Talk:Easter? Every year around Lent we get well-intentioned but ill-informed editors raving about 'pagan origins' of Christian holidays -- mostly neo-pagans or skeptics, but occasionally Christians misled by 19th-century fabrications like (I assume) yourself. I'd be happy to point you to some of those prior discussions in the archive pages, if you'd like.

Ben (talk) 21:27, 28 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Looking further at that Christian Answers page, it looks like they draw mainly from Ralph Woodrow's 1966 polularization of Alexander Hislop. You should know that Woodrow later independently checked Hislop's sources and determined Hislop's Two Babylons to be essentially bogus:  The Two Babylons: A Case Study in Poor Research Methodology  Ben (talk) 21:32, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

can you please help me. I'm not sure how to use the site apparently. I put it on the watch page as I thought it would allow me to go back when I had more time and be able to see the pages that need work. I have been a minister for quite some time and know information on this topic. A few of my church groups are currently researching the Christian Resurrection day,as well as passover and how the word Easter was mistranslated. I believe in the accuracy of information as if I lie to my people about where today holidays came from, they will not like the Christian faith. I won't lie and say Easter has Christian roots as it doesn't, but Resurrection day does. What I would really like to include in this page, is something about what some Christians believe and be able to cut and past our information in the text in it's own paragraph. Can someone please tell me how to do this?


 * It looks like your changes are getting reverted for the following reasons:
 * Incorrect wikilinks. You're using the syntax we use for external URLs to link to wiki pages, which means that most of the goodness that comes with a wiki can't be used.  If you want to link to a page, just surround it with double square braces -- there's no need to paste in the URL.
 * Unreliable sources. You're familiar with some sources on this history of Easter/Ressurection Day/Pascha/Passover, but the ChristianAnswers site you keep citing is not a reliable site.  Look at the references at the bottom: it's based on Woodrow's 1966 popularization of Hislop's 19th-century fabrication.  When Ralph Woodrow started checking Hislop's references, he discovered that the Ishtar/Nimrod/Isis stuff was Hislop's own invention, and was so shocked he pulled his 1966 book from publication and issued a new book explaining how he'd been duped and warning Christians of his stripe not to trust Hislop.  Those of us who have been editing the Wikipedia article for a few years are used to people who suddenly discover Hislop and start modifying the article to add his stuff.  Needless to say, we're not going to suddenly allow information from a discredited souce to overwrite an article that actually matches the consensus scholarly linguistic, ecclesiastical, and secular history.
 * You might want to post your revisions on the article talk page for discussion. Beforehand, I'd recommend taking a look at previous discussions at these links:     You might point some of your church groups at those discussions as well.
 * Ben (talk) 14:33, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

I wrote information on hear looking for help and trying to explain what I was trying to do as well as what i was having trouble with and now it is gone. I do realize i used questionable links, but I also have a grate deal of information with biblical references as well as dictionary reference that can support my my writing. If anyone has time, can you please tell me how I can site source and have them inserted into what I write aside from writing things like bible passage exodus 12;12 or something of that nature. Can you also tell me how to make the thing for site sources. Thank you Benbrum, but Pesach is sanctioned in the bible and comes from the Hebrew word from passover and is not part of the celebration of reselection day (Easter).

Therianthropy
What you changed was a summary of the main article, Shapeshifting. Summaries must reflect the main article, and that says "shapeshifting is the ability of a being to physically transform into another form or being". I've reverted you. Dougweller (talk) 15:45, 9 July 2013 (UTC)