Deuteronomy 12:4 You shall not do so to YHWH your God.God told Israel to completely destroy the Canaanites’ places and articles of worship, then He told them not to incorporate pagan elements into His religion.
For most of the last two thousand years, the Roman Catholic Church has made such assimilation an integral part of their evangelism, while most of the rest of the Church played along. We justify our disobedience to God by pointing to the numbers of people professing faith or being baptized.
Today, Christianity is so thoroughly infected with pagan imagery and practice that, like fish who can't see the water, we rarely even know it.
God understands how adaptability can be used to make the Church more seeker-friendly, yet He still commanded us not to compromise in this way. Easter eggs, jack-o-lanterns, Christmas trees, etc. All of those things were adopted from pagan religions, yet we keep doing them, thinking that we are pleasing God. “He knows my heart.”
Except that God specifically said, “Don’t do those things and say you are doing them for me.”
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