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To: DouglasKC
Sure I wear a wedding ring. The bible doesn't prohibit it. In fact, the parable of the prodigal son involved the placing of a ring on the hand of the son when he returned. This could be taken to represent the marriage of the church to Christ:

*Really? That sounds like you are turning the Prodigal Son Story into a gay marriage. Jesus is the Spouse and His Church is the Bride. Male and female not male and male like the Prodigal Son and his father.

Halloween is an entirely different matter though. It is supplanting God's true holy days and replacing them with false days dedicated to false gods.

*It doesn't supplant God's true Holy Days. It DOES increase the number of days especially set aside and devoted to the Worship of God, but, as a Christian, I would think you'd consider an increase in days devoted specifically to the Worship of God a good thing

107 posted on 10/23/2006 6:55:00 AM PDT by bornacatholic
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To: bornacatholic
*Really? That sounds like you are turning the Prodigal Son Story into a gay marriage. Jesus is the Spouse and His Church is the Bride. Male and female not male and male like the Prodigal Son and his father.

Oh brother. Did the deeper meaning of the parable escape you? And when Christ returns to take his bride, we won't be male or female.

*It doesn't supplant God's true Holy Days. It DOES increase the number of days especially set aside and devoted to the Worship of God, but, as a Christian, I would think you'd consider an increase in days devoted specifically to the Worship of God a good thing

God didn't create holy days nilly willy. He created them for specific reasons, to be celebrated at specific times, to show certain events and to teach certain lessons.

These days, Passover, The Feast of Unleavened Bread, Pentecost, The Feast of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, the feast of Tabernacles and the last great day are not (with the possible exception of Pentecost) are not observed by Catholics. They have been replaced by days that man created. Easter, Christmas, Halloween and whatever other created feast days there are on the liturgical calendar.

And I don't think there's anything "wrong" with adding worship days to these days provided that they're not continuations of abhorrent practices and that we keep in mind that they're not "holy" and that they're merely customs created by men.

114 posted on 10/23/2006 7:18:47 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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