James The Least

You obviously didn't listen to the program. Price immediately draws a parallel between Jer 10:2 and Isaiah 44 in correctly describing the former as carving an idol, not a proto-Christmas tree.

Isaiah 44:16-17: get a load of these dumb gentiles and their wooden idols!

16 He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire:

17 And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god. Can you believeth that shit?

sotto voce

Can Price be believed about anything?

The word 'mass' indicates sacrifice, real, clear and present sacrifice. The word 'christ' means that no sacrifice is now necessary or even possible. Yet Price does not explain that to put 'mass' and 'christ' into the same word is the occupation of patients in certain hospital wards.

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Chili

No nails allowed silly! The carving is done inside the mind that he was born that day, and that is tied into our minds.

Chili

Correct, but you are arguing from the mind of a historicist that Christ was born that day, while they are saying the Christ-mass is the ultimate sacrifice that he may be born unto you today.

Born on the 25 implies the height in involution of which the the 2 and 5 are evidence as opposites in shape to signify the crisis moment with presense of the darkest night in life when only Christ can be born to the animal man, here now bereft of reason inside the church so he may hear the sanctuary bells ring as if for the first time in his life, and so then the real sacrifice is made.

James The Least

It's difficult for you to admit you're wrong about something, isn't it?

sotto voce

Why don't you show us how it's done, James. After all, you have so much scope for it.

Sheshbazzar

Now all you have to do Chili, is to change Jeremiah's statement to eliminate that 'nails' mention.
'Cut, deck, and nail.' __ done.

Others here think nothing of adding or supplying 'carving' or 'engraving' to his words.

Some here must think Jeremiah was just too stupid to write exactly what it was that he intended.
If he had wanted 'carved' or 'engaved' in this verse, he could have written it in with three letters, or have selected different words.
He did not.

'Trees' and 'sacred poles' (ashera) set up, and fastened with nails, and held in reverence, were and are forbidden to all of The Children of Israel.

If one remains a Gentile (a 'heathen'), one remains free to ignorantly act as a heathen, but if one claims an adopted sonship into the House of Israel, and to be a child of Israel with a heritage in the Fathers, there are changes in personal CONDUCT that claiming any such adpotion entails.

Being a true Israelite is predicated upon being 'holy' -set apart- living a life of discerning and "putting a difference between" the sacred and the profane, in all matters of belief, and in personal CONDUCT, rather than just laying a claim to a name.


Robert M. Price doesn't know shit from Shinola.

Chili

It is typical for Christians to be wrong in everything they say and do.