(22-05-2024, 01:21 PM)sgh Wrote: Obviously Christianity split into many camps. One I get in touch tell me otherwise. Step inside those places your feet get burned.
Btw can you hold joss sticks? Say your parents funeral ask you hold you ok? Hold already Sunday go back Church and repent so minus off the sins.
Another point of contention is whether or not Christians can even eat the food that's been offered to idols.
And the answer is this: an idol is an inanimate object made of wood, ceramic, bronze, or whatever. If food is offered to it, it is offered to nothing but an object of wood, ceramic or bronze. What's wrong to eat it?
But some peepur really believe that eating the food is indirectly worshipping another god, and because their faith and understanding are weak, we do not eat it.
We do not want to cause alarm in well-meaning relatives and friends who think that we will cause two gods to clash, if you pray to one, you cannot pray to another, that sort of thing....we also do not want them to think that it is perfectly ok to be worshipping two or more god besides God, and Yahweh will not mind.
We need to be clear. Worship belongs only to God. Other than that, God is not concerned about external appearances. You can eat anything you want.
So holding joss sticks as a way to pray or to show respect? For most peepur, it means to pray, so I will not hold joss sticks, make some bowing actions with my hands in front of whatever, and stick these into the joss sticks holder. Yet there are some like bastardlo2 who denies that he is praying to Buddha and only showing respect. Here again, I would not hold joss sticks to show respect to Siddharta because he started a religion that is not the Way of Jesus. What is there about him for me to respect?