Ash Wednesday--A Tradition that Goes Against Gods Word
Matthew 6:16 (KJV) Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their...
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Budge asks: "What do you think that part means David? "It means, "Don't do things for show." Read the context dear. That is how you discern the meaning of any text.
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Ashes smudged on a lady's face is not appealing, david. And it also proclaims to all the world "LOOK AT ME! LOOK WHAT I DID" instead of LOOKING AT GOD and what He does and quietly fasting and praying...
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Quote:It means, "Don't do things for show." Read the context dear. That is how you discern the meaning of any text. Exactly. Now why do these people have ashes on their foreheads?
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Tan asks: "just WHY did you cut off the command to WASH YOUR FACE when fasting? "I always wash my face before going out. Don't you?
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Did you also wash the dirty ashes off before you went out into public, David?
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Bay,So, accepting your interpretation for the sake of argument only, why do you pray in public? According to you, Jesus prohibited this practice.
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Quote:So, accepting your interpretation for the sake of argument only, why do you pray in public? According to you, Jesus prohibited this practice. You continue to say that we say Jesus prohibits such...
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So Bay. If you are on the street corner preaching, and you are just motivated by your desire to appear pious, your behavior is condemned. Correct?
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Quote:So Bay. If you are on the street corner preaching, and you are just motivated by your desire to appear pious, your behavior is condemned. Correct? Correct. My preaching will be as stubble only...
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Pagan tradition, David! They did not do this in the Christian church until the pope decided to take this pagan tradition and christianize it!!MBG
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Bay,You mean hypocrite, not hypercrite.So, maybe we are getting somewhere. If a person get 'saved' and then baptised, and his intention is to display his piety, he would be condemned, correct? So his...
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MBG,Oh, you mean practices like exchanging wedding rings?If you jettison everything that had some kind of 'pagan' root, you won't have much left. No books (Bible), cause the pagans used books. No...
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Quote:If you jettison everything that had some kind of 'pagan' root, you won't have much left. No books (Bible), cause the pagans used books. No prayer, cause pagans prayed. And on and on.David, Jews...
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Quote:You mean hypocrite, not hypercrite. Yes, that's what I meant. Thanks for pointing that out, David. I corrected the spelling.Quote:So, maybe we are getting somewhere. If a person get 'saved' and...
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MBG sez: "Jews existed BEFORE anyone else... God made Adam and Eve remember".Astoundingly anachronistic.I have a surprise for you, MBG. Adam and Eve were not Jews. Jews did not come along until...
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Bay,The warning is that we should not be hypocritical and do things for show with the intention of puffing ourselves up. There is no warning against doing things, like baptism, which are acts of...
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Quote:David, Jews existed BEFORE anyone else... God made Adam and Eve remember?MBG, you need to "brush up" on your DISPENSATIONAL understandings....if you want, this is the best series ever done on...
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Quote:The warning is that we should not be hypocritical and do things for show with the intention of puffing ourselves up. There is no warning against doing things, like baptism, which are acts of...
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My point was Tan, is that the Jews came from Adam and Eve...Adam and Eve were the first people, correct? Since they were the first, and the Jews came out of them....Not all practices come from...
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