1.) Exodus 23:14-16 - Three annual feasts
14 “Three times a year you are to celebrate a festival to me.
15 “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread; for seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv, for in that month you came out of Egypt. “No one is to appear before me empty-handed.
16 “Celebrate the Festival of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field. “Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field.
When are these dates for the three annual feasts? Spring Equinox, Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice?
2.) Exodus 24-29 in general
1.)In these chapters we learn of Aaron making and wearing a breastplate of various crystals, so why do Christians teach crystals are evil?
2.) The combination of anointed oil, spices, incense, cleansing, the menorah candle, and the structure of the tabernacle along with the blood sacrifices and rituals of sprinkling the blood etc - Can anyone else see the likeness in all of this to 'witchcraft' and 'magic', and where did these original teachings in the Bible go astray become evil?
I come from a New Age background, and have read up on such things, and I'm very, very surprised to see these things mentioned in the Bible and I always thought Christians taught such things to be evil, of the devil and to stay away from it. So I am guessing somewhere along the lines, these practices were adopted by an offshoot that perverted it and used it for evil?
3.) Exodus 20:4
“You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.
Are we not allowed statues of Jesus?
14 “Three times a year you are to celebrate a festival to me.
15 “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread; for seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv, for in that month you came out of Egypt. “No one is to appear before me empty-handed.
16 “Celebrate the Festival of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field. “Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field.
When are these dates for the three annual feasts? Spring Equinox, Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice?
2.) Exodus 24-29 in general
1.)In these chapters we learn of Aaron making and wearing a breastplate of various crystals, so why do Christians teach crystals are evil?
2.) The combination of anointed oil, spices, incense, cleansing, the menorah candle, and the structure of the tabernacle along with the blood sacrifices and rituals of sprinkling the blood etc - Can anyone else see the likeness in all of this to 'witchcraft' and 'magic', and where did these original teachings in the Bible go astray become evil?
I come from a New Age background, and have read up on such things, and I'm very, very surprised to see these things mentioned in the Bible and I always thought Christians taught such things to be evil, of the devil and to stay away from it. So I am guessing somewhere along the lines, these practices were adopted by an offshoot that perverted it and used it for evil?
3.) Exodus 20:4
“You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.
Are we not allowed statues of Jesus?
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