Messianic Israelite
Active Member
I saw this article about some so called "black christians" and was appalled.
African spirituality offers Black believers 'decolonized' Christianity
Should one follow a syncretic religion? Is it OK to blend the Bible with ideas from pagan nations?
If anyone thinks this is acceptable, perhaps they haven't read Deuteronomy 12:1-3: "These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land which Yahweh, the Elohim of your fathers, has given you to possess it, all the days that you live upon the earth. 2 You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their elohim, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: 3 and you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and you shall hew down the carved images of their elohim; and you shall destroy their name out of that place."
What are your thoughts about this, and does it appall you as much as it appalls me?
African spirituality offers Black believers 'decolonized' Christianity
Should one follow a syncretic religion? Is it OK to blend the Bible with ideas from pagan nations?
If anyone thinks this is acceptable, perhaps they haven't read Deuteronomy 12:1-3: "These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land which Yahweh, the Elohim of your fathers, has given you to possess it, all the days that you live upon the earth. 2 You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their elohim, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: 3 and you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and you shall hew down the carved images of their elohim; and you shall destroy their name out of that place."
What are your thoughts about this, and does it appall you as much as it appalls me?