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To: kerryusama04; DouglasKC
"And you made an offering by fire to celebrate this day as it was commanded to be kept thousands of years ago?"

Nope.

Then obviously you did not celebrate a biblical Rosh Hashanah. The commandments for how that day was to be observed are carefully set down in Leviticus and Numbers.

There are no apostolic new covenant rites for celebrating these old covenant feast days. You cannont find a NT verses that says, "Once the temple is destroyed and the levites are no more, keep the old covenant feast days in this fashion." Of course the reason being that the apostles never envisioned Christians following old covenant rituals. They were only a shadow to point people to Christ in the flesh. Once He appeared the shadows serve no useful purpose.

The apostate rabbis after the time of Jesus had to invent new forms for celebrating these days after God destroyed the temple and ended the sacrifices and levitical priesthood once and for all time. Sad to see Christians falling in the same judaizing trap.

Whatever you did was according to the traditions of men. It was an ersatz celebration of your own devising.

155 posted on 09/25/2006 6:33:31 AM PDT by topcat54
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To: topcat54; ET(end tyranny); DouglasKC
This post by ET explains the animal sacrifice thing better than I can

TC, we've been over this so many times now that you already know what I am going to say. Nevertheless:

My faith is linear. Genesis to Revelation - it is the same God. The plan of salvation was laid out at the foundation of the Lord. I believe that everything from Genesis to Revelation is meant to bring us all to God. If the New Covenant basically erases the OT, then was God just messing with the Hebrews, teaching them poppycock and laughing at them from on high? Was all that just so that we can look down our noses at those stupid Hebrews since we are fortunate enough to have the Testimony of Jesus Christ? I don't buy it.

The volume of information that parallels the OT with Jesus with the Second Advent is huge. Gentiles who believe in Jesus are adopted into Israel, not the other way around.

Rev 12:17 And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and went off to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus.

If faith does not lead to obedience, what good is it?

Heb 10:26 For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, Heb 10:27 but a certain terrifying expectation of judgment, and THE FURY OF A FIRE WHICH WILL CONSUME THE ADVERSARIES.

I don't know about you, but this verse scares the crap out of me.

TC, what was the very first sin?

Gen 3:5 "For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

Yes, sir, Eve ate that fruit so that she would be like a God. She put her lust and curiosity ahead of God, and she wanted to be God. Running around making up phony holidays like we know better than God is the same thing. Making up our own rules because we think the New Covenant obsoletes the Law of God is not rational, IMO. God wants obedience because obedience is a sign of love. You can make fun of us who try to worship as close to the Word as possible, but I will pray that you can at least see our reasoning in doing so.

158 posted on 09/25/2006 9:33:16 AM PDT by kerryusama04 (Isa 8:20, Eze 22:26)
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