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Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa
You are wrong, that would contradict the edict that was given in Act 15:20 Act 15:29 and was repeated in Act 21:25. Paul was upholding the edict, what you read in Romans is Paul working with the two groups, one group the Gentiles who had to give up their pagan practices, and another group Jews who had to continue in the Law until the destruction of the temple.
It has nothing to do with a grass skirt.
In Jesus name
Brother Benincasa
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Bro...Paul was admonishing the church not to divide over the observance of days. The issue WASN'T holidays...the issue was divisiveness. Like what you're teaching here. You'll condemn a brother over a decoration. A decoration. You're terribly misguided.
On a side note. I was raised in an ultra conservative Apostolic church. They didn't even believe in fresh air. However, my pastor had a wooden figure in his office of a tribal warrior. It was originally viewed as a "spirit" by a tribe in Africa. However, during a missions trip a tribal official gave the statue to him. Explaining that it was a warrior spirit that protected the home. However, it has come to represent to them the spirit of a pastor who protects his church. So it was given to him as a gift because they saw him as such a great man of God and protector of the church. He cherished that gift until he fell asleep.
Of course...once you saw that statue you'd probably have freaked and left his office screaming like a little girl. lol
It's just wood. What it represents is in the eye of the beholder...like meat. A weaker brother cannot see that an idol is nothing. So he is offended by meat offered to idols. However, a stronger brother knows that idols are nothing and eats it with thanks giving toward God.
Are you weak or strong?
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