Re: [TruthTalk] Truth on Lent

2003-02-08 Thread CHamm56114
In a message dated 2/8/2003 9:46:41 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As you said, people “give up things that aren’t good for them anyway”—so what’s the point?  Does this make you any holier or closer to God? Not in my opinion    Even though it amazes me,  I know I am under the

RE: [TruthTalk] Truth on Lent

2003-02-08 Thread ShieldsFamily
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 4:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Truth on Lent   So should we tell people that are celebrating Lent that they are wrong?  Hardly   most of them are not doing anything wrong.  I

Re: [TruthTalk] Truth on Lent

2003-02-08 Thread Marlin Halverson
So should we tell people that are celebrating Lent that they are wrong? .Just curious to what you all think!  Question is -  is it wrong for someone to celebrate something even if the roots are pagan   IF they aren't doing it for pagan reasons?   Laura   GAL 4:8 Howbeit then, when y

Re: [TruthTalk] Truth on Lent

2003-02-08 Thread CHamm56114
So should we tell people that are celebrating Lent that they are wrong?  Hardly   most of them are not doing anything wrong.  I think we get so hung up on all this stuff that we boggle our minds with it and can't do any good at all.  To most people I know Lent is simply the 40 day period before Eas

[TruthTalk] Truth on Lent

2003-02-08 Thread Marlin Halverson
From: WWW.TRUTHONTHEWEB.ORG   Truth on Lent"The word Lent is of Anglo-Saxon origin, meaning spring." (Marguerite Ickis, The Book of Religious Holidays and Celebrations, New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1966, p.114)Compare Baal Worship: 40 days of fasting for Tammuz; with Catholicism: 40 days