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[votivesoul]

Originally Posted by votivesoul

You've obviously decided to pick a fight with me over our differences. You seem to be on a crusade, if your posts and disparaging comments are any indication. Rattle your rapier all you want. I beat my sword into a plowshare long ago.

But for anyone else reading, who would like to know the answer to your first question, take a read through Malachi.

God even tells the people that He'd rather have the doors to the temple locked, than to allow them to continue to make offerings to Him according to their own design--which means there is a right way to worship (inspired by God through His Word, as led by the Spirit) and a wrong way (inspired by the flesh through carnal lusts, as led by human emotions).

Nadab and Abihu made a choice (in their heart as the center of conscious activity) to kindle a fire their own way in order to go into the tent of meeting and offer praise to God at the altar of incense. It was summarily rejected and God killed them without mercy, for not following the strict mandates of His Word.

They relied upon their own ingenuity and ability to make a fire which they believed was reasonable enough to give to God and use in worship, and they paid for that mistake with their lives.

They have been a shining example to all since then up until now, that there is a wrong way to worship, a way that is man-centered in that the motivation and desire to offer God worship comes from the flesh of man.

Even in David's triumph, he found defeat, when God broke through and killed Uzzah for touching the ark. And why? The worship was unacceptable because it wasn't being offered according to the Word of God, meaning the Spirit had no part in inspiring it, for if the Spirit had actually inspired what they were attempting to do to worship God, the Spirit would have told them to not do anything until some consecrated Levites could be summoned to carry the ark back to Jerusalem.

They didn't realize their error until after God ended a man. They then went back to the Scriptures to see what they should have done from the beginning, and the Holy Spirit got involved and the worship was accepted before the Lord.