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Date: 30-Oct-04
Length: 76 Min.
Tape: 690
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Subject: Colossians 2
Summary:
Since God has authorized no day other than the Sabbath, John Ritenbaugh observes that Sunday worship is a pagan deviation, perpetuated by Hellenistic Gnosticism, a multi-faceted movement that despises Yahweh, the Sabbath, and God's laws. Though Constantine enforced Sunday-keeping (the counterfeit Sabbath) on Western culture, the ugly tentacles of Gnosticism had already surfaced in Paul's warning to the Colossians about "rudiments of the world," angel worship (actually demon worship), and "white" magic. Gnostics have incorporated Neo-Platonic notions of real (supposedly appearing in the Pleroma) and corporeal (corrupt, earthly, physical forms) to counterfeit the shadow and reality concept as described by Paul. Christ, not angels, is the reality and the fullness of God. Antinomianism, Dispensationalism, eternal security, and irresistible grace—all assimilated into evangelical Protestantism—have all derived from Hellenistic Gnosticism.
Keywords: Angel worship Aristotle Asceticism Antinomianism Babylon Catholic Church Colossians Deception Demonism Dispensationalism Elemental forces Evil passions Feast days Gnosticism Goodness without effort Icon Ikon Immaculate Conception Knight, Allen Mary worship Ministering spirits Neo-Platonism Philosophy and vain deceit Plato Pleroma Rest Romans Rudiments of the world Sabbath worship Shadow and substance Shadow of things to come Socrates Syncretistic Sunday Thessalonians Valentinian Gnostic Worship White magic Will worship
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