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The Orthodox still call the season Pascha.

Of course, everyone wants to think their ancestors live on and they invent rituals to reinforce this. Those practices are part of paganism not Christianity. Are you proposing that we should adopt these practices and rites to reach out to unbelievers. Personally I think what the Catholics did in...

The real question is not whether we individually happen to "dodge the bullet" The question is whether or not what we are doing honors God. I notice you did not take exception even when I posed the example of a child wearing the mask of a Satan who is deemed as real by Jesus and the Apostles...

Many children and adults do not know what Halloween is about either. Does that make it right for them or anyone to dress up as spirits and demons? After everyone understands that they are just playing dress-up and having fun

We do not burn incense to the Days of the Week, though and as for Planet Earth MANY people who belong to New Age Religion do pay homage to "Mother Gaia." I am not saying merely using those words is idolatry but I think we should be aware of the times we live in. When I was in the Baptist Church...

Yes the "gods" names and festivals were co-opted and used to attract the local people who had been pagan. Whether that was good P.R. or not is of no interest to me when I consider what the origin of their festivals and deities were. God already gave us festivals rooted in Biblical history and in...

Europeans did not start out as Christians. Like everyone else (except for perhaps, the Jews) they were PAGANS who had to be converted. Thus their oldest religion as with all humanity is the worship of idols. This leaving the worship of the Creator to worship creation is part of the Fall, The...

I don't buy it. He is just trying to accommodate traditions with the Bible to relieve modern Pastors from the burden of having to go against them

The children do not know the difference. That is because they are ignorant. Rather than provide fun activities in which they can re-enact pagan traditions concerning sex gods why should we not participate in those that point to Christ? God instructed the Jews to institute festivals in which they...

Deciding that "once saved always saved" is true FIRST and then "digging down into the VERSES?" Making up your mind about what you want a passage to mean and THEN fitting the individual verses in is is not rightly dividing the word It is EISEGESIS

Hi Lefebvre, just talk about what is on your mind.

So in your understanding what was Jesus emotion about in Gethsemene? Was He simply expressing a human fear of pain, torture, and death or was he afraid of something else?

Those who remain in what they heard from the beginning (the gospel) demonstrate that faith was firmly rooted and established from the start. Now those who do not remain demonstrate otherwise. You treat John 15 as if it were describing a person pre-determined to be in the vine and to continue...

Paul said speaking in (unlearned) languages was a sign to unbelievers. If I were in that circumstances it would not be a special sign to me. It would be amazing but not a sign since I ALREADY believe. To a person who did not believe it would be nothing short of astounding. We cannot judge what...

"Furthermore, if Christ deemed it a requirement for us to be water baptized under the Gospel of Grace, then verse 17 would be a very strange and out-of-place statement indeed within a systematic study of this topic, thus ripping us out from under the salvation by grace. The Covenant of Christ...

Do you think that is why the element of the SHOW (the stage smoke, the multi-colored lights, the elaborate sound systems) have expanded more and more while prayer and scripture exposition has contracted? One thing I learned from the Messianic Congregations is their tradition of holding yeshiva...

Intelligence is overrated.

For about ten years the Evangelical Church I belonged to focus on Resurrection Day consisted entirely of the Pastor repeating the early proclamation of "He is risen" and the congregation responding "He is risen indeed" THAT IS ALL, nothing more, nothing less. While this certainly is something we...