A Truce on the FR Religion Forum for Lent. (Vanity)

2/20/2007 | Redgolum

[Alex Murphy]

If you don't know what lutafisk is, you don't want to

Is it anything like haggis?

[Quix]

Thanks.

Agree well enough theologically.

On the other hand, with my different fingers . . .

A time for reflection . . . contrition . . . humility . . . an extra emphasis on candor about one's flaws with repentance . . .

not a bad thing for any believer.

[Quix]

Interesting idea.

Will see how it goes!

Lent is how long?

Does sometimes seem like throwing sharp pointy rocks at others is one of the most addictive recreational pursuits some "Christian" Freepers have.

[Quix]

Do you need a list?
= = =

Wasn't aware your hard drive had that much space! LOL.

[Quix]

Goodness . . . . learn something about my good buddy Alex all the time.

Didn't realize you thought UFO's were "worthy intelligent discussion." !!!

I just thought you were carping and pointing hostile derisive, dismissive fingers at the topic and anyone interested in it.

HAPPY to be corrected! LOL.

[Gamecock]

Fine. I'll pray for the bloody heretics, Okay?!

Evidentially "bloody" is considered to be quite a vulgar word in England, or so I've been told.

Is that true Ivan?

[MadIvan]

It's less unacceptable than it used to be, but it is definitely used for profane emphasis.

Regards, Ivan

[DungeonMaster]

Ditto. It's just silly. It even sounds like a liberal ploy to call for unity over some ritual.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

A time for reflection . . . contrition . . . humility . . . an extra emphasis on candor about one's flaws with repentance . . .not a bad thing for any believer.

I agree. Every day of the week, every week of the year, every year of our lives.

"For Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter." -- 2 Corinthians 7:10-11

[Quix]

Agreed, as I do.

Thx.

[redgolum]

It is fish cooked in a caustic sauce that lookes like a smelly, fishy, jello.

[Alex Murphy]

It is fish cooked in a caustic sauce that lookes like a smelly, fishy, jello.

Thanks! Let me know after you've looked up "haggis", and are finishing hurling...

[1000 silverlings]

Some old book I found lying around has these words in it. I'm sure they're not important, especially not for all who prefer the traditions of men over the words of an old book

Mt 6:16 Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you , They have their reward.

Mt 6:18 That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly

. Mt 9:14 Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not?

Mt 9:15 And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.

[redgolum]

Didn't know that there was so much hostility to Lent.

What is funny, is that it was originally started as a contrast to the spring feasts and orgies going on in pagan Rome.

[redgolum]

Haggias is stuff in a sheep bladder. I have had it also, as I used to work with an old Scottsman. We would try to gross each other out with food from the "old country". Neither of us won that one.

[Titanites]

Matthew 6:17-18 "But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, "so that you do not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father who [is] in the secret [place;] and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

[Nihil Obstat]

Good Scripture selection there. Actually, that was today's Gospel reading at all the Catholic churches in the world!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1788603/posts

[Dr. Eckleburg]

What is funny, is that it was originally started as a contrast to the spring feasts and orgies going on in pagan Rome

Well, it's probably a fine line between celebrating something as a "contrast" and "incorporating" that same thing into your own worship.

Proof is in the pudding. A celebration of Lent is nowhere in Scripture and erroneously encourages us to presume we can pay for our own sins by doing penance and making sacrifices for them.

According to Scripture, there is only one sacrifice that redeems any sinner, and that sacrifice has already been offered and accepted.

"But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;

From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.

For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,

This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin." -- Hebrews 10:12-18

[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

Stop 'dissin' Haggis.

[fortheDeclaration]

While I am all for civility and decorum as good reflections on FRee Republic and our theological debates, this Presbyterian does not and will never celebrate Lent. Ash Wednesday and subsequent fasting and penance up until Easter were founded on pagan ceremonies incorporated into Roman Catholicism; the Anglicans adopted it as well as some Protestant denominations that enjoy the rituals, but it remains unScriptural and therefore rejected by God's word.

Amen.