No one denies that practices used by pagans are used now. I simply deny that their use is prohibited by God or even that they are in use only by Catholics. I think even you use them and you have boxed yourself into a corner because you, too, likely pray, and if things done by pagans are prohibited, then you must also believe that prayer is prohibited. I deny that using incense, temples, prayer, vestments, processions to honor my God makes me a pagan. The things and the methods are ‘indifferent’, it is their application that matters. If I sing or dance or hop on one foot to glorify God, then I am still glorifying God.
And you have still not answered the question. Pagans were using temples and sacrifices and prayer to honor their false gods, yet God in writing commanded the Jews to use those methods to worship Him. Did God command the Jews to honor Him in pagan ways?
If a murderer uses a shovel to kill and then someone else later picks up the same shovel and uses it to plant a garden which gives food to the hungry, are the shovel and the act of feeding evil just because the object was once used for evil? Can nothing that was ever used for harm be converted to be used for good?
You just keep repeating the same statements, there is no actual rebuttal in your answers.
And you still haven’t answered the other 2 questions, so I have to conclude that you can’t.
Love,
O2
Do you not understand the difference between what God instituted and commanded and what He did not? Does the statement from scripture "do not add to or take away" ring any bells?
>>Can nothing that was ever used for harm be converted to be used for good?<<
I just point out what God says through scripture. Your debate is really with Him. If you want to trust some men over what God says in scripture that's your business.