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To: CynicalBear

Sometimes the Sun and Moon are just the Sun and Moon. Better check your tinfoil supplies.


244 posted on 12/04/2014 3:24:57 PM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: SampleMan
>>Sometimes the Sun and Moon are just the Sun and Moon.<<

And sometimes they are more than that.

Deuteronomy 12:30 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. 31 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD your God.

Think the Catholic Church didn't adopt pagan practices?

The use of temples, and these dedicated to particular saints, and ornamented on occasions with branches of trees; incense, lamps, and candles; votive offerings on recovery from illness; holy water; asylums; holydays and seasons, use of calendars, processions, blessings on the fields; sacerdotal vestments, the tonsure, the ring in marriage, turning to the East, images at a later date, perhaps the ecclesiastical chant, and the Kyrie Eleison, are all of pagan origin, and sanctified by their adoption into the Church.[Cardinal Newman - Development of Christian Doctrine, pg 373]

God didn't say you could use them but need just to "sanctify" them. He said don't use them period.

248 posted on 12/04/2014 3:45:13 PM PST by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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