[Rutles4Ever]

It seems odd when reading Acts, and the Epistles, to imagine the simple, God-fearing churches as having 'evolved' into this creature of the Roman Empire - with its purple robes, legions of officers, giant marble cathedrals, gold, and the such... But maybe that's just me...

Why aren't you walking around in sackcloth and celebrating the Lord's day in a clay hut, if the trappings of Rome offends you? God demanded opulence in designing the Ark of the Covenant, didn't He?

[Zionist Conspirator]

Why aren't you walking around in sackcloth and celebrating the Lord's day in a clay hut, if the trappings of Rome offends you? God demanded opulence in designing the Ark of the Covenant, didn't He?

Isn't it amazing the way Catholics and other liturgical chr*stians invoke the Ark, the Holy Temple, the Offerings, the rituals, and the Holy Days of the Torah in order to justify their completely different counterparts? Meanwhile the notion that these commandments for all time refer to the Jewish ones and not their so-called chr*stian "fulfillments" is rejected out of hand because of the Notzerim's assumptions and are held to be "blasphemous" and "unnecessary" to boot! After all, J*sus put an end to them . . . but he didn't put an end to their "replacements!"

[El Cid]

Re: 116
Why aren't you walking around in sackcloth and celebrating the Lord's day in a clay hut, if the trappings of Rome offends you? God demanded opulence in designing the Ark of the Covenant, didn't He?

Psalm 51
16 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

I'll stick with simplicity and sincerity in Worship, thank you.

Do you see any resemblance between the churches in Acts, and the Epistles vs. the spin-off from the Roman Empire?