I have lovely relatives that are members of the “anti’s”
...against several things that the “majority CofC” are not against.
Rational:
The Apostle Paul says: 1 Corinthians 11:22 Don’t you have homes to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God by humiliating those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? Certainly not in this matter!
The majority of CofC have kitchens and “fellowship halls”
...but an example of “humiliating those who have nothing”..
I have know of some that might not attend a fellowship meal BECAUSE they did not have something to bring that might be “acceptable” in their thinking.
Since CofC is “congregational” the local elders as proscribed by the NT make decisions based on input of the local christians as to the acceptable “freedoms” according to Paul that we have in the New Covenant.
BTW...the New Covenant went into effect...
after the death of Christ...
16 For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
The New Testament says the OT is for an example to us...
but we need to be careful about pulling items forward...
into the New Testament age.And of course...the early Christians including Paul who wrote more than one half of the NT taught Christ and Him crucified from the OT ...
just as Stephen taught the Etheopian Eunuch ..
34 The eunuch asked Philip, “Tell me, please, who is the prophet talking about, himself or someone else?” 35 Then Philip began with that very passage of Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus.
Phillip did have the knowledge of Jesus from the time he lived... plus he had the OT explaining the coming of Christ...His First...and Second coming ( ; )
“36 As they traveled along the road, they came to some water and the eunuch said, “Look, here is water. What can stand in the way of my being baptized?” [37] [c] 38 And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water and Philip baptized him.”
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+8&version=NIV
Make sure YOU look up the word “baptize” to know what it meant then not what the King James “translators” were afraid
to write down in 1611.
Make sure YOU know what Jehovah God says...not what men...
say He says.
Same thing with KJV and the word “Easter” that is NOT in God’s Word.
Apollos did not know the complete Word of God...Make Sure... that You like Apollos are willing to Learn what Jehovah God expects of His Children.
2 Timothy 2:15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.
https://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?qs_version=NIV&quicksearch=not+ashamed&begin=62&end=62
***Make sure YOU look up the word “baptize” to know what it meant then not what the King James “translators” were afraid
to write down in 1611.***
***Same thing with KJV and the word “Easter” that is NOT in God’s Word.***
Explained here. FROM THE TRANSLATORS TO THE READER. KJV 1611.
http://www.avbtab.org/av/avPre.htm#s15
• 12 Lastly, we have on the one side avoided the scrupulosity of the Puritans, who leave the old Ecclesiastical words, and betake them to other, as when they put washing for Baptism, and Congregation instead of Church:
• 13 as also on the other side we have shunned the obscurity of the Papists, in their Azimes, Tunike, Rational, Holocausts, Præpuce, Pasche, and a number of such like, whereof their late translation is full, and that of purpose to darken the sense, that since they must needs translate the Bible, yet by the language thereof it may be kept from being understood.
• 14 But we desire that the Scripture may speak like itself, as in the language of Canaan, that it may be understood even of the very vulgar.