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Originally Posted by Originalist
At the same time, a "feast" to meditate on Christ's birth, death, burial, or resurrection is not prohibited. Thus, to say it is an abomination to do so is illogical, and frankly, is silly.
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"Whatever is not prohibited is allowed" in other words. Sounds like Enlightenment "natural lawism".
To the readers: The Bible teaches a principle about worship. It may be called the
Authoritative Principle of Worship. The Principle essentially declares that "What is not authorised by Divine Command, Example, or Necessary Inference from Scripture, is prohibited."
The Principle is stated succinctly in Scripture:
Deuteronomy 4:2 KJV
Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.
God took a people out of bondage and made them His peculiar, Covenanted people. He gave them commandments and taught them how He was to be worshipped. They were forbidden to either add to or subtract from what He had commanded them. In other words,
innovation in worship was prohibited by God Himself.
God's people were also specifically forbidden from borrowing foreign religious practices and "adapting" them to the worship of God:
Deuteronomy 12:29-32 KJV
When the Lord thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land; [30] Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. [31] Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God: for every abomination to the Lord, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods. [32] What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
Many would like to think that Jesus abolished the Authoritative rule of Scripture to regulate our worship of God. But neither Jesus nor the apostles ever invalidated God's authority to determine how He is to be worshipped. Jesus did not come into this world in order to free you from God's authority! He came to free you from satan's control, to free you from the bondage of sin. He did NOT come to free you from God!
We have a complete Bible. The teachings of Jesus as relayed by His disciples in what we call the New Testament Scriptures provide the final authoritative interpretation and application of God's Word. The authorised worship of God was progressively revealed from Adam's time in the Garden, through the Sinaitic Covenant, the instruction of David, the applications and interpretations by the Prophets, the reformation under Ezra and Nehemiah, and culminating in the establishing of the New Covenant by Christ Himself. The progression of revelation concerning how we are to relate to God and serve God has been completed. The Scriptures are the CANON, or RULE which God has revealed to mankind.
The Holy Bible is the SOLE AND FINAL AUTHORITY FOR FAITH AND PRACTICE to Christians. Christians are students (disciples) of Jesus Who is the Word incarnate and Who sent forth His followers to make more disciples, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever He instructed His original followers. Those things constitute "the doctrine of Christ". That is to say it is the TEACHING of Christ. Any who claim to be Christians but who do not hold fast and remain faithful to the teaching of Christ are deceived and are not saved:
2 John 1:9 KJV
Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
Jesus taught that "man shall live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God." That includes the Biblical and Divinely instituted Authoritative Principle of Worship. Innovation in worship is not authorised by Scripture.
Individuality is authorised (for example, the particular melodies used for singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, as it is a necessary inference that melody must be used, and as no melody is specified, it is a matter of liberty), but
innovation is expressly prohibited (creating new acts of worship or altering Scriptural precepts, or imitating heathen devil worship, for example).
Christmas is not authorised as a special day of worship. It is not only not authorised by God, but it is expressly forbidden by God, as it is undeniably an ancient holy day of the devil worshipping heathen, and all Christmas rites are variations of ancient devil worship. Adapting these ancient occultic satanic rites to give them a Christian veneer is specifically prohibited by God's Word.
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