Are you aware that there are pagan underpinings for everything you do? To go in search of purity is to abandon any sign or service at all.
Pagans worshipped their gods. So we must throw worship out. they had sacrificie, so we must throw sacrifice out. They talked about hwo good their gods were, so we must remain silent. they sang songs, so we must never sing.
The bottom line is that the fact that pagans, ungifted with Revelation, came to realize the working of God in the seasons and in nature is not a bad thing. It was God moving to prepare these peoples for the Christian conversion. That Spring is a time of re-birth or that light in the Winter is a sign of hope are not ideas that God recoils from. He made the world the way it is, and gave His People both a spring festival of new life, and a winter festival of lights.
Deal with that.
SD
For the same reason you didn't cite you Pesach for Easter revelation which came directly out of the Catholic Encyclopedia.
Are you aware that there are pagan underpinings for everything you do? To go in search of purity is to abandon any sign or service at all.
Yes, I'm aware.
Pagans worshipped their gods. So we must throw worship out. they had sacrificie, so we must throw sacrifice out. They talked about hwo good their gods were, so we must remain silent. they sang songs, so we must never sing.
They were just poluting what God had already laid down for his people. Just like the Catholic church is doing.
The bottom line is that the fact that pagans, ungifted with Revelation, came to realize the working of God in the seasons and in nature is not a bad thing. It was God moving to prepare these peoples for the Christian conversion. That Spring is a time of re-birth or that light in the Winter is a sign of hope are not ideas that God recoils from. He made the world the way it is, and gave His People both a spring festival of new life, and a winter festival of lights.
You've got it all backwards. God's instruction for worship preceeding the pagans polution and the Catholic Church's continuation of it. Deal with that.