[aMorePerfectUnion]

By the way, my Christian friend, who the heck are you to declare that a fellow Christian's worship has no value?

Incense has no value in the NT Church, nor does Scripture ever say it does. It is God's Word that is the final authority above all practices of men.

What value does it add, being non-scriptural for the Church on earth??

Only that which is made up by men, who fail to distinguish the Church from Israel...

or to pronounce on what is or is not a Biblical practice?

Again, if you claim to be Apostolic, why did no Apostle write anything in instructions for the church regarding incense?? Why did no Apostle participate in worship with incense in a church?? Why does it not appear in the lives of the Apostles??

[Mrs. Don-o]

"It is God's Word that is the final authority above all practices of men. "

Well stated, aMPU, well stated. That's why we offer incense to the One True God,the Trinity, Creator of Heaven and Earth and sovereign Lord of all the Universe. Because it is so repeatedly approved and recommended in Scripture, God's Word.

And you ignored the larger question: your assumption that anything that is not explicitly commanded in the NT, is forbidden. The OT foresees and foreshadows the NT, and both foreshadow the Church: which is to say, "us," the Body of Christ, which includes you and me.

You explained nothing from the OT--- except you proved yourself adept at explaining it away.

But never mind. I am going out to dig up a bed for my celery-herb and fava beans, and I'm going to put a statue of the Holy Family in it. It's good. It's true. It's beautiful. I dearly wish you could rejoice in it.

Χριστὸς ἀνέστη! Ἀληθῶς ἀνέστη! (Khristós anésti! Alithós anésti!)

Revelation 8:3