$#!7 My IFB Pastor Says....

[Away-From-The-Umbrella]

(01-10-2012 03:08 PM)Perry Wrote:  On Sunday, the pastor at the IFB church was talking about how important it is to "humble yourselves before the congregation and come on down to this old-fashioned altar", and made a statement like "God thinks the altar is important. In the Bible, they were all the time building altars after everything they did" and listed several situations in the Bible. Now I haven't done any intense studies of the Old Testament, and I'm certainly not a Bible scholar, but I'm pretty sure the altar had a different purpose in those days than it does at the front of the Fundy church.

An altar was for sacrifice. Christ was our "once for all" sacrifice. So yeah, a fundy altar is just...well not what an OT altar is...at all.