Did you know that St Patrick was a Sabbath keeper? The Catholics twisted things and presented a different person than what he actually was.
http://blog.messiahslove.com/2....022/02/15/saint-patr
So I learned today that Tucker Carlson thinks Iran with a nuke is a no biggy and we should focus on more important problems…
Wish I had an emoji for banging my head against a wall. ??♂️
I tried. I really tried. ?
I did a comic a while back showing that there are three types of categories of things in the Bible: Holy, Common, and Pagan (or unholy). I want to dive deeper into each category. This is on what is Pagan.
We see in the comic two men, both chopping down trees for their religious purposes. The last part is the key: religious purposes. In ancient times, before Christ's birth, there are different pagan religious groups that would cut down evergreen trees and bring them into temples or their homes for their gods.
There is also the matter of Jeremiah 10:2-4, which is depicting a very similar practice and saying: don't do it, it's worthless.
Many will say that Christmas trees didn't come from these sources, but from the Paradise tree in plays in medieval Germany. The question that would have to be asked: where did the ones putting on the Paradise tree play get the idea?
1 Thessalonians 5:22 - Abstain from all appearance of evil.
If it is known that this was a practice of pagan cultures of the time, why do it, but say you are doing it for God? Wouldn't this cause those that aren't in the faith to now think what they are doing is okay, or those new in the faith to think they don't have to give up their previous lives such as Paul talks about in Romans 14 and 1 Corinthians 8?
Things that are pagan are things we should stay away from. God speaks quite often on this:
Deuteronomy 18:9, 12 - When you have come into the land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not learn to imitate the abominations of those nations. (12) For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh. Because of these abominations, Yahweh your God drives them out from before you.
Jeremiah 10:2 - This is what the LORD says: “Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by the signs in the heavens, though the nations themselves are terrified by them.
Jeremiah 19:5 - They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I never commanded or mentioned, nor did it even enter My mind.
The last verse, while it is speaking of a horrific practice, is one to keep in mind: something I never commanded or mentioned.
Where did God command copying things that pagans used to do for Him? God lays out what we should and shouldn't be doing in His Word. One of those things we shouldn't be doing is copying pagan religious practices.
We don't need to go and find "new" things to do. If we do find something and think "oh that would be cool to do for God", we need to research it and make sure it is something from the Bible and not something of the world. If it is questionable, we shouldn't do it.
The last thought I will leave you with is: if the world loves it, should you?
John 15:18-19 - if the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
1 John 2:15 - Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.
James 4:4 - You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
https://thestraightandnarrow.cfw.me/comics/914
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This video teaching attempts to answer several questions that can have a major impact on how you interpret large parts of the Bible...
⚡️How should you approach a controversial, emotionally charged topic in your Bible study?
⚡️What is a covenant, how is it different from other kinds of contracts and agreements, and how many covenants are there?
⚡️How do covenants work and how does someone become party to a covenant that has already been established?
⚡️Is there any continuing relevance for circumcision, the Levitical priesthood, and sacrifices?
⚡️What does all of this have to do with "New Covenant" believers today?
https://tube.ttn.place/v/Mz3Pdd
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