Re: Is Jesus honored when people make a lie in His honor?

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> "Raymond E. Griffith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >> "The ways of the heathen" does not include tooth-brushing or
> >> breathing, say, but does include far more than idolatry.
> >
> > OK, then. Draw the line. Specifics, please.
>
> A hard-and-fast rule specifying for all time what would and what would
> not be acceptable? Jesus discussed that sort of thinking with folks of
> the Pharisee persuasion: the mindset is called "legalism", and the
> task is impossible.
>
> If heathen can make a rock into an abomination, there isn't much of
> anything that, under some circumstances, is perfectly innocuous--but
> under other circumstances, is abhorrent to God's people.

Hmmm. Too much of this and you will degenerate into the spiritual error that
everything material is evil.

Spirituality is not defined by not doing what the heathen do. It is defined
by one's walk with the Lord. I cannot see how a Christmas tree is "learning
the way of the heathen".


>
> Regards,
> Len.
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