18 Apr 2011, 8:10 am
leejosepho wrote:
MCalavera wrote:
Telling others not to celebrate Easter because it's from the Devil is pure arrogance ...
Where has anyone here told anyone else what to do?
The message is obvious. What's the point of this thread then?
18 Apr 2011, 8:11 am
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18 Apr 2011, 9:05 am
18 Apr 2011, 9:05 am
MCalavera wrote:
If he had no problem with Christians celebrating Easter, why make a thread condemning Easter in the first place?
I see the battle is still raging.
Seems like you are the only one doing any condemning around here.
18 Apr 2011, 9:10 am
18 Apr 2011, 9:11 am
all_white wrote:
MCalavera wrote:
If he had no problem with Christians celebrating Easter, why make a thread condemning Easter in the first place?
I see the battle is still raging.
Seems like you are the only one doing any condemning around here.
You are free to celebrate whatever it is you want to celebrate. I do not demonize what you celebrate nor do I demonize you for celebrating it.
My concern is that you feel your own personal faith decides what's right and what's wrong for others to celebrate and enjoy.
18 Apr 2011, 9:13 am
MCalavera wrote:
It's called common sense. When you condemn a practice, it means you are basically telling others that it's wrong to practice it. Even if, for the sake of political correctness, you add that you have no problem with them practicing it.
Apply this logic to yourself for a minute. You don't agree with Christians choosing not to observe heathen feast days, so you're condemning them and telling them they are wrong.
Or is your logic exclusively one-way? Does it only work when applied to others, not to yourself?
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18 Apr 2011, 9:15 am
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18 Apr 2011, 9:17 am
all_white wrote:
MCalavera wrote:
It's called common sense. When you condemn a practice, it means you are basically telling others that it's wrong to practice it. Even if, for the sake of political correctness, you add that you have no problem with them practicing it.
Apply this logic to yourself for a minute. You don't agree with Christians choosing not to observe heathen feast days, so you're condemning them and telling them they are wrong.
Or is your logic exclusively one-way? Does it only work when applied to others, not to yourself?
Your argument above might make some sense if I ever did argue that Christians aren't supposed to neglect "heathen feast days".
(Un)fortunately, I've been arguing that each person is free to celebrate what he/she chooses to celebrate but without putting down others for celebrating what they themselves choose to celebrate.
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18 Apr 2011, 9:18 am
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18 Apr 2011, 9:20 am
MCalavera wrote:
My concern is that you feel your own personal faith decides what's right and what's wrong for others to celebrate and enjoy.
I never said that I decided what was right for others, only me.
Define "others."
If you mean the heathen, then, no. They do not follow God's commandments, so they do as they please.
True Christians will not celebrate a heathen festival. If anyone professes to be a Christian yet chooses to do celebrate heathen festivals, I do not "condemn" them, because in my mind they are clearly identified as not being a true Christian anyway, by their own actions, so it's all the same to me.
In any case, it is not "my own personal faith" that is deciding this or that. Faith is defined as trust or confidence in someone or something. Faith is not a person; it is an emotion. Therefore, how can it decide anything?
It is God himself who decides what I must and must not do, and I merely strive to do as I am told.
18 Apr 2011, 9:20 am
