What an absolutely breathtaking display of ignorance of the Holy Word of Elohim.I'm sure you googled the word ashes and found without regard to understanding the context.
The issue is simple. Somebody posts some crazy link saying that Ash Wednesday is Hindu in origin and I deny that. Lent is a time of penitence in the Church, and ashes are symbols throughout the Old and New Testament periods of just that. That is the context. Who would defend an imagined "connection" to Hinduism when a real one already exists within the Judeo-Christian tradition itself? Such a position simply doesn't follow the facts.
Yah'shua is is describing what will happen to unrepentant cities.
You have missed the point entirely. Cities are not the issue. Ashes, and how they are used, are. If Tyre and Sidon had seen Jesus they would have "done penance in sackcloth and ashes," just as Nineve did. That is what the ashes mean, and that is why we use them on the first day of Lent.
There are examples of people putting ashes on their bodies.
Yes, and why? As a penitential act. And what is Lent? A penitential season.
It is always man made rules; it is never commanded by YHvH.
I see little point in pursuing that line. A person who rejects the Lord would not see even his own words as being from God. And one who rejects his Church or apostles would likewise deny authority there. Such an argument leads nowhere I would think. The issue, as I see it, is a claim that we are practicing some adopted practice of Hinduism on Ash Wednesday, as if we really have to look that far for meaning for the ashes in Lent. It is absurd and silly.
A person who rejects the Lord would not see even his own words as being from God. And one who rejects his Church or apostles would likewise deny authority there. Such an argument leads nowhere I would think. The issue, as I see it, is a claim that we are practicing some adopted practice of Hinduism on Ash Wednesday, as if we really have to look that far for meaning for the ashes in Lent. It is absurd and silly.
Have a wonderful journey on the wide road. Mazol Tov !
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach Adonai