Posted on 11/23/2016 7:05:18 AM PST by Salvation
Totally agree!
But the priestly garb was for the Jews - and most things Jewish were superceded by the spiritual reality that came with Christ.
Intimately familiar with the OT priestly garb (AND Tabernacle and TEmple) that God gave to the Jews.
Everything Jewish was outward and physical - an outward demonstration of a spiritual reality in the heavenlies.
Sadly, the Jews missed the spiritual reality that everything symbolized, and became a dead, God-rejecting people who were sticklers for the details of the outward while totally contradicting the spiritual reality. That is clear in all of Christ’s words to them and their leaders.
When Christ came, He did away with outward and external (see St. Paul’s epistles) and replaced it with the spiritual reality - stating many times that the external show was irrelevant, and the inward spiritual reality was what counted in the eternal and spiritual realm.
So many evidences of this - a major one in how He dressed Himself, and his choosing his disciples from the lowly.
The external requirements for the Jews were never passed on to the Christians. See Acts 15 for example. The whole of the NT is an emphasis on spiritual reality, not external looks.
Not wishing to argue, just sharing my (and that of millions of others) view........
Affirmative sir. The one thing, however, that I think is really a mortal sin of sacrilege, is the fact that they don't have French dressing. All they have is Caesar's and Thousand Island, so I am forced to suffer for Jesus, without it. 😆😎🇵🇭
quote-I’ve always wondered why the new year doesn’t start December 21/22, instead of January 1.
After all; that is when the winter solstice occurs.
Those in power must have had a reason.
Yes Elsie!
The answer is Rome trying to fit The Old Testament law into their December 25.
January 1st is the ‘8th’ day from December 25.
That is when Christ was to be circumcised according to law. (8th day for Jewish boys)
On the Father’s calendar, when one is born on the ‘New Moon Day’ (1st day of the month) , the 8th day is holy- It is the weekly 7th Day Sabbath- another appointed day He taught Israel. (ezekiel 46:1 template)
What’s interesting is ‘40’ days from December 25 is another ‘holiday’ on Rome’s calendar:
February 2nd- certainly secular here in the US known as Groundhogs Day, but in Rome, it is the commemoration of the presentation of Jesus in the temple, after the 40 days of Mary’s purification, according to law.
Rome knows ‘Torah’- (so does satan)so, Rome’’s calendar fits the ‘template’ but has changed/substituted His ‘days’ and ‘times’ for their own. ‘Changed times and laws’ (Daniel 7:25)
And Rome can do that because the world runs on the pope gregory calendar. They set the premise for the world.
Rome’s
-December 25
-January 1st
-February 2nd
vs. Bible
-New Moon Day- 6th month- Summer (August/September)
-Weekly Sabbath(ps- need not be on a Saturday-news to Jews)
-Day of Atonement(10th Day of 7th month-40 days from His birth)
how hard would it be for Christians to abandom that tradition?
very difficult when some are fighting to put Christ back in Christmas - not knowing He was never in there- according to His Word and His Creation.
only according to Rome is He there..and we are Roman citizens whether we know it or not.
It was my understanding that the Old Testament said He would be rather unassuming looking. But I also thought there was a New Testament reference to the fact that he was striking in appearance and that there was something magnetic about him.
I thought striking might have meant that he was taller than the average man of the time and unusual in some way.
David may have been a ginger. He was “ruddy and beautiful to behold, and of a comely face.”
Since Mary and Joseph were both descended from David, Christ was both legally and biologically descended from David.
It would be like God to make Christ a physical throwback to David or Moses or Abraham. I thought I had read somewhere that Christ’s hair had red/gold highlights in it.
This was not what I expected. Usually an article about “the real Jesus” departs entirely from the biblical texts. Large portions of this could be, or perhaps should be, written in the present tense, because Jesus is not just a figure of history. He lives and rules to all eternity. Introduce second person voicing and it becomes a sermon of substance.
There is also this to consider:
“While reviewing the evidence of the Shroud in 1999, Dr. Gilbert Lavoie presented another intriguing discovery, that the body had light blond hair.”
http://www.holyspiritinteractive.net...oudofturin.asp
Also:
Another unearthed description by Publius Lentrelus describes Jesus’ eyes as bright blue.
http://www.thenazareneway.com/likene...ur_saviour.htm
http://www.angelfire.com/nv/TheOliveBranch/book6.html
http://www.mariavaltortawebring.com/...Appearance.htm
Also:
There is another physical description of Jesus in a letter by Pontius Pilot in which Jesus has “golden colored hair” and “blue” eyes. In 1964, a tablet from Pontius Pilate to Tiberius Caesar was recovered in a archeological find (a copy of this letter is in the Congressional Library in Washington, D.C.) which describes Jesus’ physical appearance. It describes Jesus as having golden colored hair.
http://www.scribd.com/jakedp/d/91888...iberius-Caesar
http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Arch.../msg00408.html
http://mtshastaportal.blogspot.com/2...n-legends.html
http://www.fathersmanifesto.net/wm/wm0010.htm
I had a friend once who had medium brown hair but when she stood in the sun, it blazed a sparkly gold. I picture Him that way. He looked like He had brown hair until he stood in the sun preaching; then He glowed with zeal.
Sorry, only the angelfire link is working.
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The Acts were massaged by Eusebius long after they were recorded.
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Me: "Amen."
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Blessings upon blessings to you, Elsie, on this grace-filled day.
Play name games, call others ignorant, and pretend you haven't blasphemed the Holy Spirit by throwing a large portion of the Bible in the garbage can because you trust Pharisee Rabbis more than you trust Christ. None of that changes the fact that you're following those Rabbis rather than Christ.
Actually, he is a sycophant of Michael Rood. That is all one needs to know to ignore ES posts in the religion forum. You two deserve each other ...
Then we have some PROOF; right?
Like REALLY old ACTS that are NOT massaged??
Ditto.
I have often said the same thing — just not as eloquently as the tenacious one, here.
...but if you are comfortable taking Rome’s teaching and practice into eternity, so be it.
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Oh, good. So I suppose that means that you are going to stick with your own religious beliefs and practices and leave us Catholics to our beliefs and practices. Your baying and ridicule will now stop? Wonderful.
Agreed!
Thanks, Salvation.
Oh no. I’m going to sound the alarm and spread the truth as long as I have breath.Rome doesn’t have a saving gospel and souls are at stake. As long as papists propagandize for Rome, I will step in and counter when I can. If you and the regular papal brigade here want to stake your soul on the Roman doctrine, so be it, but others must be warned they are in grave danger. If I didn’t care about the souls of men, even yours, I wouldn’t waste my time.
The Bible says “The fear of the LORD is to hate evil...” All religions that take away from or add to Christ are evil. Rome does both.
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