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To: Carpe Cerevisi; cyclotic; Alex Murphy
"Yeah, there’s nothing about fasting or almsgiving in the Bible. The Trinity’s not mentioned either."

This is not an appropriate means of determining good doctrine. Cyclotic is right, here...Lent & such is simply not in the Book.

If we look at those prescribed behaviors which are noted after the cross (when we Gentiles were grafted in), there are no such ceremonies/traditions/rituals encouraged by the Apostles. Even the so-called Lord's Supper is simply a remembrance celebration without any "transubstantiation".

Perhaps the greatest truth a believer can lay hold of is that for all people, everywhere the Great High Priest (according to the order of Melchizadek - non-Jewish, pre-Mosaic Law) has now entered the Holiest Place in existence (Heaven) bearing the offering of His blood & body, shed & broken for the elect, and this done once for all time.

The Father has accepted this sacrifice as permanent payment for the chosen and has pronounced them sanctified, holy because they are found in the Son. They bear nothing in their own hands, but come clothed in the holiness of Jesus, Who has called us His beloved and He sat down at the right hand of the Father.

Every form of safety, security, salvation is bound up in what He has done and is doing this very moment as He makes perpetual intercession on our behalf. The Holy Spirit is pouring grace upon the elect as He indwells the adopted children of Yahweh. And He, with groanings too deep for words, tells the Father everything within our soul.

If we would focus on holding these truths in our hearts & minds, we would find no need for human oriented rituals.

30 posted on 02/07/2013 11:21:27 AM PST by Dutchboy88
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To: Dutchboy88

Well said!


50 posted on 02/07/2013 9:36:08 PM PST by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: Dutchboy88

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. (Psalm 51:17)

All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came into being,” declares the LORD. “But this is the one to whom I will look favorably: to the one who is humble and contrite in spirit, and who trembles at my message. (Isaiah 66:2)

The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. (Psalm 34:18)

For this is what the high and lofty One says—he who lives forever, whose name is holy: “I live in a high and holy place, but also with him who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite. (Isaiah 57:15)


51 posted on 02/07/2013 9:43:55 PM PST by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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