And yet we have churches that hold these sessions under the guise of “exercise classes.” If you told the participants they were practicing the rituals of a pagan religion, they would look at you like you were a nutcase.
I am an ordained minister and your words display an apalling lack of understanding of who Jesus Christ was and what he gave us
The Christian faith is about The Spirit, not the Laws. You sound like a disgruntled Pharisee or Saducee whining because Jesus gave us an individual path to God, not through them. Take a walk in the word and open your eyes. Just because a form of body relaxation was integrated into a non Christian practice does not make it UNHOLY. If I follow this idiotic premise then if a Pagan wore silk to his church and then a Christian did you all would be here self righteously saying it is a pagan thing so you are guilty. Rinse and repeat. Just to open your eyes wide look in the Bible for the passage about NOT PUTTING A STONE IN YOUR BROTHERS PATH.
Simply put, if you do not eat pork and are invited by a friend to a BBQ and all he is serving is pork and he knows you will not eat it, he is in a way saying eat pork or go hungry. He has placed a condition on you forcing you to make a choice that in truth he has sinned. God says he made everything holy and so any attempt to leverage people with this kind of malarkey is outright shameful
If you or the Pope (False God = NEVER MENTIONED in the New Testament as a function even contemplated. But then if you go back in the history of the Catholic “religion” it is a combination of Spiritual and Pagan churches blended together under Constantine. The Christmas Tree gambit versus The Day of Jesus Birth is a repackaged Roman Festival....
Many many more cloaked as “religious” (read Made up by men) to backward acknowledge the root of the practice.
What a waste, shouting about a speck in your brothers eye while your eye sockets are boarded over in self righteousness so deep you at time think you know better than God
Read the Bible and decide for yourself, this group think ritualistic stand up, kneel, sit, talk, you talk, on and on I experienced in Catholic Church in Phoenix on Easter Sunday
I was already a regular attendee of a non denominational church, Christ was my savior and I accepted communion during Sunday services I attended regulary. My family traveled to see relatives in Phoenix and we went to the Easter service at their church. To me as a young man it was more like a choreographed group think than the loving atmoshere i knew. When they talked abot Communion I stood up and was ready to accept.
The told me I could NOT as I was not a “MEMBER” of the “Catholic Church”
I was DENIED the free and open profession of my faith in a house of God on a day celebrating his resurrection and it did not matter.
So you, If ANY of you find justification for all of these rules in the Bible and pointing at others about such nonsense is to me nothing more than a guilt trip from the Leader for his OWN purposes which are NOT OF GOD.
Fire away but YOU MUST USE SCRIPTURE, no opinions. Your walk with God and the Spirit within and I with mine and we will seek edification and direction. I will warn you I have had this very same argument with a fellow Minister and she backed down
Save you time
Read about what God does to those who modify or make up what we purport he said
God Bless, I pray he opens Your eyes and Your heart to His way, not your Popes. You have the Holy Spirit, direct link to god. Pick it up and see what he tells u
Love and Light to all
Rev Steve