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Originally Posted by Aquila
Why surrender a single day to the secular culture. Take it captive and glorify Christ with it! For example, tear down Hindu temples and build churches on top of the land. It's about spiritual warfare and conquest... not puritanical ascetism, which you're advocating.
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\That is what the catholics did, send in a priest, adapt the local stuff into the catholic religion to keep the natives happy, build a church on the old temple site and you gots religion.
So why do we want to "take back" something we neither want nor need? It isn't about puritanical ascetism, it is about not worhipping at the altar of idols nor feasting at the table of demons.
As for the scriptures regarding Holy days, the churches of Acts were much different than those today... they were comprised of both Jewish and Gentile believers, a mix that often came into cultural clash. The "Holy Days" Paul was refereing to were the Jewish feasts and calendar days... Not the local pagan day set aside for Mithras, Minerva or whoever.
He was instructing the gentiles to let the Jews regard the feast of tabernacles or whatever if they want, and the Jews to not expect the gentiles to observe them if they didn't want. And if a gentile convert wanted to celebrate passover.. fien. let him.
And the gentiles not to judge the Jews for regarding it if they disiered, and the Jews not to allow anyone to judge them over it.
Nothing to do with "taking back" or "Christianizing" times and seasons that honor false gods.
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