Greendawn: I was reading a point last night in a book by Ron Rhodes that pagans have stories of floods, does that make the flood story pagan? Also, in some of the things that I’d printed out I read a really great point that I thought I would share.
Back in the early days when they first got rid of Christmas and Easter, the idea was that if they found that things had a pagan origin they needed to root it out. Well, if God is SO incensed with things of pagan origin, then why aren’t they continuing with the practice of rooting out all things evil/pagan? Like you said and Poztate said in another thread, wedding traditions have pagan origins. If it means That much, then why not root it all out rather then pick and choose?
Moggy Lover: I especially liked your opening: The chapter on "Birthdays" as found in the "[Human] Reasoning book is trite, mostly bunk, and deceptively misleading in that it makes statements that are contextually misapplied.
For instance the concluding sentence in the introduction says that birthdays "are not a Biblical practice" If that is the case then COs, Branch Overseers, WTS Presidents, Circuit Assys, District Assys, wedding rings on the left ring finger, driving cars, watching TV, eating pizzas, etc etc are'nt either. So what? You mean we should'nt do them? Where does one draw the line at unsuitability of practice, simply because it is'nt a "biblical" practice.
Awesome point.
NeonMadman: If we look through the bible, I suppose we could find a lot more instances like that, huh? Thx
Wow, lots of info!! Thank you guys for helping me, I really appreciate it! This is going to keep me busy reading, lol.
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