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Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa
No it's called a coincidence, but if a pagan goes to the city square and worships his god at 1 AM and you go there at the same time and decide to copy the pagan's tradition of going to the city square and you then induct that tradition into Christianity, you also get your followers to go to the same city square always at 1 AM and teach that all of your followers must also teach future converts the same thing?
Well then, I would say that you are practicing a pagan tradition disguised as a Christian one.
Oh and also, the pagans who regonize their tradition, which you stole from them, have no respect for you.
In Jesus name
Brother Benincasa
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OK Brother B. I can see where you're coming from on that. But lets take that scenario a step further...
Imagine that, its a thousand years later, and believers in that area have been going to the city square to worship Jesus at 1 am, ... and most of them
don't even know the origin of that particular practice (that pagans used to do the same thing), but the Christians do it
as unto the Lord....
Then, even if people start coming around and telling the Christians that the 1 am worship practice was copied from pagans,
Rom. 14:5-6 still applies here...
Because they are worshiping Jesus, not pagans!!
As long as they are doing it unto the Lord, I believe it still honors God and is acceptable with God... But if some of the believers felt uncomfortable with the practice (because pagans were the first one's worshiping every 1 am in the city square) then out of personal conviction, if they decide to not do it any more, thats fine too. But they shouldn't judge the other believers and call them pagan worshipers if they are using the occasion to honor the true God of heaven.
One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
14:6 He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it.
Seems like there's a very basic concept here. Not very difficult at all.