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Idolatry mistaken for hospitality?

clipped from www.foxnews.com

Churches Open Doors to Muslim Worship

They see it as their Christian duty. But others disagree, saying it extends the hand of fellowship where it was never intended to go.

Two Protestant churches are taking some heat from critics for opening their church buildings to Muslims needing places to worship because their own facilities were either too small, or under construction.

“I think it’s a tenet of our Christian faith, and that is that we extend hospitality to the stranger,” said Bechtol. “We are a congregation that wants to be helpful to people and if we are asked to help a neighbor in need, that’s what we do.”

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Let me think? Worshiping of other gods in the places set aside for his worship? God might be for that, right?  Wait, let me think scripturally:

Exodus 20:3-5 “You shall have no other gods before me.  “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.  You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God.

Does the phrase “abomination of desolation” mean anything?   Google it.

Ezekiel 8:8-10 Then he said to me, “Son of man, dig in the wall.” So I dug in the wall, and behold, there was an entrance.  And he said to me, “Go in, and see the vile abominations that they are committing here.”  So I went in and saw. And there, engraved on the wall all around, was every form of creeping things and loathsome beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel.

No, God does not like idolatry.  And he does like it in his house.

How disconnected from the scriptures and the apostolic church so many congregations are in our day.  When He comes, will he find any true faith on the earth?

One thought on “Idolatry mistaken for hospitality?

  1. The Lutheran Church (ELCA) across the street from my home in St. Paul, MN leases their building to the Mormons.

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