Atonement said:
You know... Being an ex-Satanist. I must question: So now if one worships God on Sunday they are a Satanist?? Throwing around the term 'Satan worshippers' has nothing to do with how one worships God. There is no direct connection between the two.
I believe that Jesus is refering to 'ANY' tradition that is not of God reults in 'VAIN worship.
Mark 7:7
Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching [for] doctrines the commandments of men.
7:8 For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, [as] the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.
7:9
And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition. ************************************************************
Matthew 15:3
But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?
15:4 For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
15:5 But ye say, Whosoever shall say to [his] father or [his] mother, [It is] a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;
15:6 And honour not his father or his mother, [he shall be free]. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
15:7 [Ye] hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,
15:8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with [their] lips; but their heart is far from me.
15:9
But in vain they do worship me, teaching [for] doctrines the commandments of men. ************************************************************
Colossians 2:8
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
Sunday worship services, is not a Christ-ordained method of worship.....because it is based on Man's idea, not God's will.
When Jesus Christ gave the GREAT GOSPEL commission....it was to teach what Jesus Christ HIMSELF taught....
Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you..."
The only way for a person to get into heaven is to do....exactly what Christ says to do !
Satan is predicted to attampt to change God's Law (Daniel 7:25.....'think to change times and laws').
The ONLY law, of God's, that is in regards to time, is the 4th commandment.....
Exodus 20:8 Remember the sabbath day (time), to keep it holy.
20:9 Six days (time) shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
20:10 But the seventh day (time) [is] the sabbath of the LORD thy God: [in it] thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that [is] within thy gates:
20:11 For [in] six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them [is], and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
BUT...those who study the Bible, understand what Satan has tried to do, and are not deceived by his actions.
There are but 2 paths to follow....God's or satan's, THERE IS NO MIDDLE GROUND.......
Romans 6:16 "Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness" ?
God set up the 7th day sabbath way back in Genesis 2:2,3.....as the sign of LOYALTY towards HIMSELF (Ezekiel 20:20).
Sayan says: NO, I will change that sign of loyalty towards myself....
BECAUSE REMEMBER satan is refered to as the 'god of this world' (2 Corinthians 4:4).
I asked him before, and he told me that he was SDA, but I know there are some issues (I'm guessing they are Trinity related)...I would let him tell you about those for himself, however, so that I don't mispeak. As far as his posts, I felt that same way the first few times I waded through them, but now I understand them pretty easily, and as I have mentioned...I have learned from them.
