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To: Mr. Brightside

Thought you all might be interested in the Apostle Paul's opinion on this subject.

Colossians 2
16Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. 17These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ. 18Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you for the prize. Such a person goes into great detail about what he has seen, and his unspiritual mind puffs him up with idle notions. 19He has lost connection with the Head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.

20Since you died with Christ to the basic principles of this world, why, as though you still belonged to it, do you submit to its rules: 21"Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!"? 22These are all destined to perish with use, because they are based on human commands and teachings. 23Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence.


103 posted on 12/06/2005 9:49:05 PM PST by mongrel
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To: mongrel

What we are complaining about is not that they've done a cost/benefit analysis, and God lost.

Churchlite. God made small.


108 posted on 12/07/2005 4:41:04 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: mongrel

No, that's Paul's opinion on those who worshipped Saturday as per Jewish custom and Sunday, which is what a lot of the earliest Jewish Christians seem to have done. It has nothing to do with sanctioning the non-worship of God cause it would cost the church involved too much money or because they thought it to be more fun to stay home and play Christmas.

Sunday. The Lord's Day. Ask John:

9: I John, your brother, who share with you in Jesus the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.
10: I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet
11: saying, "Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Per'gamum and to Thyati'ra and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to La-odice'a.

It might be wise for the leaders of such churches to reread what the Lord said to the seven churches....



114 posted on 12/07/2005 5:01:25 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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