brewmama
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Laying on of hands.
When they are laying on of hands, they say they are laying on of hands. It's different. The Orthodox Church does that too.
Again, where's the proof of your conjecture?
Laying on of hands.
Arsenios
There are 1050 legitimate NT commands.
We don't need to look for ways to make our lives more difficult since we can focus on these.
Here they are at...
https://www.cai.org/bible-studies/1050-new-testament-commands
Other than these, I am quite happy to obey Paul in this...
Rom 14
22 Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.
Obey Paul? Except when he says this I guess,
1 Corinthians 7:5 (NKJV)
5 Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
You are cherry picking to suit your own desires again!
I wish you could learn to enjoy your Christianity as much as I enjoy mine, not feeling a need to fast more than very occasionally.
The baptism he commanded them to do has nothing to do with water.
Baptism signifies a permanent change to something.
It really does bother me that so many people are so lazy and equate the word baptism with water.
When Jesus said they would partake in the baptism he was about to go through... he was talking about his Crucifixion, death and resurrection.... when he came out on the other side he was changed forever..
I wish you could learn to enjoy your Christianity as much as I enjoy mine,
not feeling a need to fast more than very occasionally.
Arsenios
There are 1050 legitimate NT commands.
We don't need to look for ways to make our lives more difficult since we can focus on these.
Here they are at...
https://www.cai.org/bible-studies/1050-new-testament-commands
Other than these, I am quite happy to obey Paul in this...
Rom 14
22 Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.
The word "tithe" is used 7 times in the NT.
In every instance the context is in connection with the OT temple service, or is spoken to the Pharisees who were not under the new covenant.
Yet there is no OT doctrine which every church embraces more emphatically than tithing.
Contrast this with the word "sabbath" which is mentioned 55 times in the NT.
Why would the church reject the sabbath as being OT and legalistic, while insisting that tithing is not?
Because money is power.
God wrote on stone "Remember the Sabbath Day".
55 times in the NT He reminded us.
The Catholics came along and said "Forget it".
But don't forget to keep sending us the tithe.
God's interests, "Forget it".
Our interests, "Remember it".
Hypocrites!
God wrote on stone "Remember the Sabbath Day".
55 times in the NT He reminded us.
The Catholics came along and said "Forget it".
But don't forget to keep sending us the tithe.
God's interests, "Forget it".
Our interests, "Remember it".
Hypocrites!
The early Church, the Ancient Faith, NEVER said "Forget the Sabbath."
But Christ arose on the Eighth Day, the New Day, a New and Holy Day, the First Day... And it is this day that we keep, for if Christ is not Risen, Christ's Faith for us is but dust and ashes...
Did you know there are 5 different baptisms mentioned in scripture and only one involved contact with water?
"because Christ was raised on Sunday" - which He was not.
Why not choose the day He was crucified, or any other random day on which He performed some event? God NEVER gave the church authority to change a day HE MADE HOLY from creation, by resting on it.
Thus the early apostate church started doing things which IT defined as HOLY, ignoring the things God defined as holy.
He died on the eve of the Sabbath, which was a High Day that year, and was buried that Friday prior to sunset, and was in the grave all that day of the Sabbath, and arose from the dead very early in the morning on the third day, which is the day after the Sabbath... Which is the first day of the week, which is Sunday, the Eighth Day...
Do you even believe he was in the tomb prior to and after the Sabbath?
The Church prescribes spending Saturday in preparation for Sunday in prayer and services and labors for the Church...
Sunday is the Day of Resurrection!
Arsenios
Christ was crucified on a Wed, the day before the Passover annual Sabbath. He was placed in the tomb at sunset. He remained there for EXACTLY 3 days and 3 nights to rise Sat. sunset.
I do not wish to address this further since the day Christ was raised on IS IRRELEVANT. Man decided to turn God's holy day to the pagan sun-day and used the day he was supposedly raised on as an EXCUSE to justify this. And its a very weak and pathetic excuse too. Like I said, why not chose the day He was crucified on as the Sabbath? This would be equally wrong.
God did not give the church leave to play fast and loose with what He calls holy.