To: Conservative til I die
It's certainly not a Biblical or Christian practice to make a mark with ash on the forehead.
227 posted on
03/04/2006 3:49:31 PM PST by
Full Court
(Baptist History now at www.baptistbookshelf.com)
To: Full Court
It's certainly not a Biblical or Christian practice to make a mark with ash on the forehead. Who died and made you the arbitrator of what is or isn't "Biblical" or "Christian"?
Stop sniping other Christian's beliefs. You've probably got just as much wrong as anyone else.
229 posted on
03/04/2006 4:34:01 PM PST by
jude24
("Thy law is written on the hearts of men, which iniquity itself effaces not." - St. Augustine)
To: Full Court
It's certainly not a Biblical or Christian practice to make a mark with ash on the forehead. It's rooted in the ashes of penitence - which are found all over the Old Testament.
230 posted on
03/04/2006 4:35:49 PM PST by
jude24
("Thy law is written on the hearts of men, which iniquity itself effaces not." - St. Augustine)
To: Full Court
It's certainly not a Biblical or Christian practice to make a mark with ash on the forehead.
1) I asked you what was Pagan, not whether it's found in the Bible.
2) As other posters have shown, there is a parallel to the Catholic practices of ashes/repentance in the Old Testament.
3) Even if not something found in the Bible, what specifically is Unchristian about a practice that calls us to repentance and back to Christ?
Just because something is not specifically in the Bible, does not make it an unChristian practice.
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