Comments on BiblePlaces Blog: The Battles Within the Holy Sepulcher Church

Unfortunately I believe Raymond Cohen has some mis...

2009-07-04T22:13:16.979-05:00

Unfortunately I believe Raymond Cohen has some misinformation in this bias opinion of the several churches in question regarding the Holy Sepulcher Church. In regards to who has what rights of use etc. As far as the fighting about *ownership*
I have this to say:

Is not the ownership the Holy Trinity? It is the house of the lord and to fight among themselves who *owns* it, is preventing the house of the Lord from receiving the due Repairs? If they are all Faithful to God the differences between them should be the last thing on their minds. And the benefit of the House of the LORD should be first.

"Not a carpet can be laid, a candle lit, or a step...

2009-05-28T23:17:00.824-05:00

"Not a carpet can be laid, a candle lit, or a step swept unless it is the custom."

I can't help but think of Jesus' words to another group of legalists:
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone. Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel! ...Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous, and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.’"

The older I get the more I appreciate tradition. But tradition cannot be preserved at the cost of unity and love for each other. The greatest command Jesus gave was to love each other, not to fight over the placement of a ladder or whether we should repair the latrines in our churches.

hese Christians see how they love one another!

2009-05-26T14:09:47.197-05:00

hese Christians see how they love one another!