You objected to "4 man umbrella - added. Goofy outfits that look religious and worldy? added."
It's just as "added" to have a cross, as to have an umbrella. It's just as "added" to have academic robes at your Christian college graduation, as to have Franciscan religious habits. It's just as "added" to have pews OR folding chairs, since the first meeting-houses had neither.
You can't get away from it, AMPU. Open up your Bible. "Matthew," "Mark, "Luke" and "John" ascribed to Gospels which were written anonymously. Not attributed to any human evangelist in the text itself.
Do you object to that? It's added on.
“It’s just as “added” to have a cross, as to have an umbrella. It’s just as “added” to have academic robes at your Christian college graduation, as to have Franciscan religious habits. It’s just as “added” to have pews OR folding chairs, since the first meeting-houses had neither.”
I disagree with you.
Christ’s sacrifice on the cross is the central point of our faith and of history. The pagan 4 man umbrella (pictured) has nothing to do with Christianity, yet is placed at the forefront of a supposedly Christian act of worship.
Academic robes are not an act of worship. They are a tradition in the academic community.
Franciscans are a whole added topic without foundation in NT Christianity. Forget the costumes.
How people sit or stand while they worship is not central to Christian worship. Since the first churches were home churches, I can imagine there were chairs, but chairs or no chairs are not the center of worship or doctrine. If they are, there is something very wrong with the church that makes it so.
A better question to examine is why would a purportedly Christian church want to enshroud themselves in pagan religiosity? What do they gain by this other than diluting truth to appear as good as false religions?
“You can’t get away from it, AMPU. Open up your Bible. “Matthew,” “Mark, “Luke” and “John” ascribed to Gospels which were written anonymously. Not attributed to any human evangelist in the text itself. Do you object to that? It’s added on.”
Chapter numbers, page numbers, verse numbers, even many book names are added on later as matters of convenience.
They do not add to the truth of the book. They do not change the God’s Word.