my good friend who I converted from   atheism has fallen into following these heretics
Armor of God
one of their strange beliefs is it's wrong to  celebrate Easter, they follow the holidays like passover ,it's hard getting through to him so any help on this matter   would be helpful in trying to wake him up to this specific issue as to why we don't celebrate passover

Get to the root of the problem by getting the book "Where we got the Bible." The Bible came from the Church founded by Jesus Christ, the Roman Catholic Church. Once he understands that fact, the details will fall into place.

CF, even if this friend of yours had converted from atheism to traditional Catholicism, it would not have been you who converted him.

You only THINK you converted him.

It is only God who changes hearts, and this fellow has not had a change of heart  if he rejects Easter, which is the very pivot around which Christianity turns.

You need to fast and pray in order for him to convert.

I know I helped with his rejection of atheism always with the help of the Holy Ghost, call it what you  like,he's changed but now needs specific arguements to convert him to the true faith ,specifically why we don't celebrate passover

Well, you might want to mention how to follow those feast days now are unnecessary because they were all in expectation of Jesus Christ, who is the Messiah. To follow those and other precepts laid out before the fulfillment of the Law would be akin to saying that one still expects a Messiah, which of course is blasphemy. The Church recognizes that, that is why it is outlawed for anyone to observe those feast days with the intention of an Old Testament Jєω. Which, frankly put, is to not observe these feasts at all.

For example, why is it unnecessary to follow Passover? Well, Jesus Christ, in His bloody Sacrifice at Golgotha, became the Lamb without blemish. The lamb in Passover was superseded by Jesus Christ, Agnus Dei, the Perfect and Spotless Sacrifice. Thus, there is no reason to keep killing lambs in expectation of a Messiah that has already died and rose again. To do so is absurd in the eyes of a Catholic. This now became the Sacrament of the Eucharist.

Why do we not observe the feast of Tabernacles, also? This is because Christ fulfilled this feast by fasting 40 days in the desert (this feast commemorated the 40 years the Israelites were in the desert), and overcoming the devil by means of rejecting his various temptations presented to him. This now, as we are in currently, became the observation called Lent.

Also, why is there no difference between circuмcision and uncircuмcision? Jesus Christ perfected this by instituting the Sacrament of Baptism, which is the fulfillment of circuмcision, leaving an indelible spiritual mark, as opposed to an indelible fleshly mark.

The Church has plenty of beautiful feast days to celebrate. My favorite being the feast day of Ss. Peter and Paul, on June 29th.

Remember as well these two key factors:
a) It was your friend's decision to accept the reality of Christ, then to reject Him.
b) St. Paul tells us to admonish those in error one to two times. After that, we must avoid them as a "heathen and a publican".

I think one of the best ways to convert a Protestant is emphasizing this Bible verse:

Then Jesus said to them: Amen, amen I say unto you: Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you.

Catholicism has one major difference than all the other religions: It really keeps the Precious Body and Blood of Christ for all generations in the Sacrifice of the Mass which is promised to last until the end of the world, and which we know the extreme importance of, from the bibles passage above. Our Lord was very clear about this.

And then proving to them, the historical reality that Jesus Christ founded only ONE church, the Holy Roman Catholic Church and not another; and that is very traceable, with a little research, that all Protestants sects have been founded but mere humans, but not by God Himself. The Catholic Church is the only Church on earth that has a truly divine origin.

Well, you might want to mention how to follow those feast days now are unnecessary because they were all in expectation of Jesus Christ, who is the Messiah. To follow those and other precepts laid out before the fulfillment of the Law would be akin to saying that one still expects a Messiah, which of course is blasphemy. The Church recognizes that, that is why it is outlawed for anyone to observe those feast days with the intention of an Old Testament Jєω. Which, frankly put, is to not observe these feasts at all.

For example, why is it unnecessary to follow Passover? Well, Jesus Christ, in His bloody Sacrifice at Golgotha, became the Lamb without blemish. The lamb in Passover was superseded by Jesus Christ, Agnus Dei, the Perfect and Spotless Sacrifice. Thus, there is no reason to keep killing lambs in expectation of a Messiah that has already died and rose again. To do so is absurd in the eyes of a Catholic. This now became the Sacrament of the Eucharist.

Why do we not observe the feast of Tabernacles, also? This is because Christ fulfilled this feast by fasting 40 days in the desert (this feast commemorated the 40 years the Israelites were in the desert), and overcoming the devil by means of rejecting his various temptations presented to him. This now, as we are in currently, became the observation called Lent.

Also, why is there no difference between circuмcision and uncircuмcision? Jesus Christ perfected this by instituting the Sacrament of Baptism, which is the fulfillment of circuмcision, leaving an indelible spiritual mark, as opposed to an indelible fleshly mark.

The Church has plenty of beautiful feast days to celebrate. My favorite being the feast day of Ss. Peter and Paul, on June 29th.

Remember as well these two key factors:
a) It was your friend's decision to accept the reality of Christ, then to reject Him.
b) St. Paul tells us to admonish those in error one to two times. After that, we must avoid them as a "heathen and a publican".

thanks, will use this, if I had to avoid everyone that I've had to admonish more than 2 times I would be living by myself in seclusion, leave my wife etc

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my good friend who I converted from   atheism has fallen into following these heretics
Armor of God
one of their strange beliefs is it's wrong to  celebrate Easter, they follow the holidays like passover ,it's hard getting through to him so any help on this matter   would be helpful in trying to wake him up to this specific issue as to why we don't celebrate passover

If there is no Easter then there is no Christianity.

I told him that,he's still in a fog under the grasps of the heretics, if he responds with anything of substance I will post here

The best that you can do for your friend is to live the holiness that God is calling you to.