[kosta50]

Protestants [including me], have prostrated themselves in worship, with their faces to the floor

Which Protestants? The Church of One?

Further, It's highly likely that the Old Testament outstretched arms, lifting 'holy' hands up to God was the same as in Pentecostal circles

Highly likely?

Old Testament Jews likely did it both ways.

I don't think so.

The outstretched arms way is obeying Scripture in Christ's own words about coming to God as little children. Perhaps you've seen a 2 year old with outstretched arms reaching for Daddy to pick her up

Oy vey!

One's worship rising up within, Holy Spirit rising up within--compels one, urges one, fosters one, leads one, to stretch as far as possible TOWARD DADDY GOD.

Reaching out "as far as possible" towards God? I thought God is everywhere. You don't really think God is "up there" looking "down" at you?

I'd have thought that someone purportedly as versed in the Old Testament as you, would have recalled the WAVE OFFERING of the Old Testament

I remember reading about it way back when. My understanding it that it was something done by the Temple priests (only), with body parts of sacrificed animals. It was a very specific priestly ritual, not something done by crowds waving wildly in the air.

From the day on which the 'omer of the wave-offering was brought the Israelites had to count seven weeks or forty-nine days, the fiftieth day being the Feast of Pentecost (ib. verses 15 et seq.). The counting is still practised; and, though the bringing of the 'omer ceased with the destruction of the Temple, the days between Passover and Pentecost are called the "'omer days [Ency. Heb., 'Omer]

However, Proddys likely welcome your being your habitual contrarianly wrong most any time, about Scripture and authentic Christianity

"authentic Christianity" established with such irrefutable "arguments" as "very likely" and misplaced snippets from the Old Testament? I guess I am a failure as a "Proddy," and find it strange when people wave their arms in the air like a bunch of crazed-out pagans trying to reach [sic] "as close as possible" to an omnipresent God!

One doesn't do a "WAVE OFFERING" with arms held half way.

One doesn't. You have to be a Temple priest to do the wave-offering, and then then he better have a bloody body part in his hands. :) (It is an offering after all! Empty hands are good for naught, LOL.) But since there is no Temple, even that is not an option any more, Q.

So, do some Proddys think they are Jews?

Worshippers of The Living God in congregations not given to such practices are missing out on a very Biblical Blessing in their avoidance of a very Biblical practice.

No Christians, to the best of my knowledge, not even the Pentecostals, wave slaughtered animal body parts in their hands trying to reach as close as possible to God, Q. What they do is a tradition of men that has nothing in common with the Jewish practice.

[Quix]

Sigh.

What a predictable pile of weasel worded rationalizations!

I was certain you could pull that off somehow.

[Quix]

THANKFULLY,

Amongst those truly seeking God, His Face, HIS will . . . HIS DELIGHT . . .

and thereby open to exhortations from His Spirit . . .

will learn whatever they should from my humble words.

The rest will likely enjoy their smug, self-righteous, IN-GROUP, !!!!TRADITION!!!! BOUND perspectives.