[dangus]

>> I find no Scriptural warrant for radio of TV preachers. Heck, I find no Scriptural warrant for indoor plumbing. That doesn’t mean Christians ought not to listen to TV preachers or thank God for American Standard. <<

Mad Dawg, don’t you know, you’re supposed to obey your ruling prince or King or community board or licensing bureau, but never your successor of St. Peter, or apostle or presbyter or confessor. King Henry, the princes of Germany, and Zwingli will brook no rivals for their authority!

What a sick world we live in, when people will curse the nanny state, yet cower to it in all things, shouting from the roof tops how insane its moral decrees are, yet upholding its authority persistently, granting it every power to coerce, yet how dare a Pope or bishop persist in the slightest at handing down the traditions they have received from those appointed by Christ.

[bkaycee]

Col 2:16 Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. 17 These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. 18 Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind, 19and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.

20 If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations— 21 "Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch" 22(referring to things that all perish as they are used)—according to human precepts and teachings? 23These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.