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But - Gott im Himmel! - Pluralism Sunday at Elizabethton, TN is also marked by 'the pagan festival of Beltane - "bright fire" or "fire of Bel." Bel was the Celtic sun god who was in his glory during the light half of the year. In the old traditions, this feast day celebrated the new growth and fertility of the land and all of its inhabitants.'
Gasp! Not only a pagan festival but a fertility festival to boot! Almost (but not quite) as bad as bunnies and eggs at Easter! I'm breaking out in hot flushes as I type this. John, cobber, you could single-handedly provoke hortatory sermon material in certain Christian communities to last the year round...
We are not totally depraved, but maybe one day...
ReplyDeleteI don't like to stay up late at night and it's just too far away or I might have considered....
ReplyDeleteLike I keep saying...Grace Communion International thinks they are (still) playing catch-up with "the rest of Christianity," but in reality, the "rest of Christianity" is beginning to play catch-up with us, with the theology and correct translations and accurate concepts of first-century Christianity, that the Church was teaching, in the 1930s.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone honestly think Shuck's comments would have passed muster, as little as ten years ago? The pagan roots of professing Christianity's "traditions" (Matt 15:9) are becoming all too clear, to the point where honest professing Christians with even the slightest shred of moral integrity, cannot deny it.
...the "rest of Christianity" is beginning to play catch-up with us, with the theology and correct translations and accurate concepts of first-century Christianity, that the Church was teaching, in the 1930s.
ReplyDeleteActually, beginning no later that 1919, when the Church of God began keeping the Feast with Gilbert G. Rupert.
And then, in the 1930s, some crazy heretic did his best to divide the CoG7 and started teaching the insane idea of British Israelism which became the source of his predictions to make him one of the greatest false prophets ever.
The Armstrongist CoGs don't even have a clue what Christianity is all about because of a bull headed strong willed idolater to keep their Old Testament Christianity with its shadows of what was to come: The lies and deceptions they have preached have blinded the people and themselves.
But congratulations on turning so many people to atheism and agnosticism: It's a great accomplishment.
"...the "rest of Christianity" is beginning to play catch-up with us.."
ReplyDeleteWhere are you running?
Come follow my little lobsters, we have some scuttling to do!...you can wait until later to molt...
Zoids,
ReplyDeleteRe: lobster: Having sampled the dread scavenger during my apostate years, I fail to understand what the big "forbidden fruit" concept was, that lobster held over people. At least the not-so-converted people, who openly whined and pined about how much they "missed" eating shellfish: Other than being somewhat rubbery in texture, and having a slightly tannic aftertaste, I honestly can't say that lobster is either as wonderful, or as evil, as it was claimed by the opposing sides of the debate.
Balance in all things, has always been my motto. (Well, I strive for it, anyway.) Not that I'm about to disobey the dietary laws ever again, mind you.
As for where I may be "running?" I am not now, nor have I ever been, nor will I ever be, a member of any of the apostate groups of the Worldwide Church of God. And that, friends, is a very good thing.