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To: aMorePerfectUnion

“I said it wasn’t a Christian practice”

According to whom? You?


645 posted on 07/15/2013 4:43:42 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge ("we are pilgrims in an unholy land")
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To: JCBreckenridge
JC,
It is not a Christian practice:

It appears nowhere in Holy Scripture as a command
It appears nowhere in Holy Scripture as an example
It appears nowhere in Holy Scripture as a suggestion
It appears nowhere in Holy Scripture as a Christian practice
It appears nowhere in Holy Scripture as a prophecy
It appears nowhere in Christian practice from the inception of the Church through 100AD
It appears nowhere in secular writings to confirm a Christian ever did it in the early Church
It appears nowhere in art through 100AD
Christ never commanded it
The Apostles never commanded it
The Apostles never practiced it to our knowledge
Mary never practiced it to our knowledge
No Christian ever did it through 100AD to our knowledge

Against this total vacuum is your one and only argument that it was never condemned.
No where in more than 600 posts on this thread has anyone provided any support for the truth claim that it is Christian.
Zero.

If that is your standard for Christianity, your call.

By that standard, everything can be Christian.

Using your standard of "nothing-but-air-can-define-Christianity"You could put pizza in your shoe, walk on it all day, claim you are feeding the Saints in Heaven and tell us the Church Fathers never condemned it.

Using your standard, you could also begin praying to leprechauns, fairies, dwarves and elves. The Church Fathers never condemned that.

Well OK then. Carry on. Better buy some bigger shoes.

680 posted on 07/15/2013 6:14:19 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion ( “The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.” - Tacitus)
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