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Post by mystic on Oct 12, 2016 9:55:01 GMT -8
Is there any scripture which prohibits christians from attending but not participating in other religions religious occasions like Hindus or Muslims e.t.c?
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Post by alon on Oct 12, 2016 12:58:56 GMT -8
Is there any scripture which prohibits christians from attending but not participating in other religions religious occasions like Hindus or Muslims e.t.c?
jimmie is the scripture-whiz here, but I don't know of any place where we are commanded to not attend pagan services. We are commanded not to do many things you may be required to do at these services though. And it can be inferred as a principle that we should not attend them:
Ezekiel 18:5-6 (ESV) “If a man is righteous and does what is just and right— if he does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor's wife or approach a woman in her time of menstrual impurity,
1 Corinthians 10:14 (ESV) Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
Acts 20:28 (ESV) Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.
Acts 15:29 (ESV) that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”
You may be tempted to participate and do any of these things in Acts 15, knowingly or unknowingly, if you attend services or festivals with pagans. And you will be bombarded with their doctrines, practices and beliefs. You also give tacit agreement to these things when you cross their threshold.
You are to be kadosh, holy, separated unto Hashem:
Leviticus 20:26 (ESV) You shall be holy to me, for I the Lord am holy and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine.
1 Peter 1:15-16 (ESV) but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
How is going to Hindu services or Muslim feasts being set apart?
Dan C
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Post by mystic on Oct 13, 2016 2:13:48 GMT -8
From the above I am guessing this would apply;
1 Corinthians 10:14 (ESV) Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
And this should apply to participating in any of their rituals or eating their ceremonial foods:
Acts 15:29 (ESV) that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols
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Post by jimmie on Oct 13, 2016 14:27:37 GMT -8
No whiz. Just using word searches.
Ps. 101:3 I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.”
Jeremiah 10:2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
Deut 12:30 Take heed to yourself that you are not snared by following them, after they are destroyed from before you; and that you inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.
Ex 23:2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
1 Corinthians 15:33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
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Post by mystic on Oct 14, 2016 2:15:56 GMT -8
Thanks guys.
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Post by Loxody on Oct 14, 2016 14:10:28 GMT -8
Yes, Islam, Hinduism, Bhuddism and any other religion is considered avodah zarah, idolotry, and to most of the Jewish people, even Christianity. However, the Jewish people are partially blinded (blinded to the truth about Messiah), so I don't have a problem with participating in a Christian service occasionally, but I don't make it a habit. Mainly weddings, funerals, and special prayer services for National Day of Prayer, etc.
In the Jewish people's own writings, it is said Messiah sits at the gates of Rome. Rome represents Christianity (Roman Catholicism) in Jewish thought, so that means he is actually among the "Christians" but the Jewish people don't realize it.
So I believe it's alright if it's Christianity since they believe in the same God (with the same attributes, etc.), but NOT Islam, Hinduism, or others because that is considered avodah zarah.
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Post by alon on Oct 14, 2016 15:24:51 GMT -8
I go with my wife to church sometimes. But we have to be careful as most of their traditions are pagan, and others violate  . Also I don't advise goin there unless you hae a good background and strong faith in Messianic Judaism; because you'll need a ton of discernment listening to their message. And like some practices which violate , the falsehoods In their doctrine are not always easy to detect.
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Post by mystic on Oct 15, 2016 3:17:55 GMT -8
No I don't go to those events, matter of fact that is the purpose of this thread so if anyone asks I can show them actual scripture why I can't do so.
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