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"What a Friend we have in Jesus"

I see Christianity as a way of life, I see that we are called to this new life by Jesus, I see you give up your old life, and begin a new life. You are born again of water and the spirit. John 3:5. If you love Jesus keep his commands John 14:15, deny yourself daily, take up your cross and follow me Luke 9:23.

The church we attend gave a lesson on various types of "Christians". One type is a know it all, they know the bible and they spout bible verses at you, overwhelm people with their superior knowledge and frankly do more harm than good. These same people go home and are not obedient to his commands, they do not deny themselves, hiding behind the word without following it. The next group are emotional in their worship, they are deeply involved in the worship, then they go home and live a life without obedience to his commands, nor any true knowledge of his word, nor seeking His company in daily prayer. The last group are the religious box checkers, they check all the boxes, they live the life working their work, doing what they have been told to do by some religion, with no real relationship with God, no real understanding of what they are doing or why.

We all know who we are, but we all would never admit it, especially in an argument about who is right about their own salvation. God loves us all despite ourselves as has been proven time and time again. In my understanding God desires a relationship with us, not a religion, he desires us to love him, to know him through his word, and he insists on obedience. If we do our best to know him, love him, worship him, and Obey him then we wind up at the words of Jesus in Matthew 19:25-26, "who then can be saved"? “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” How he does it does not matter, he can do anything.

I know it's Old Testament, but can someone explain temple prostitutes.?

Many of the pagan middle eastern religions were sexual, involving sex during their worship. They had prostitutes in the temples where a person could go and 'worship', aka - knocking off some and having your spouse be ok with it. They would make some kind of gift to the temple to support it's upkeep. I assume the richer worshipers got better quality hookers. In those unenlightened days, there were only 2 genders and you could choose which you wanted to worship with.

Thank you.

In the Old Testament in Israel they were both a female and male temple prostitutes, male prostitutes were called "dogs".

Other than the comments in Hosea….which likely to be figurative references to the spiritual adultery of Israel….I am not aware of references to temple prostitutes in the Jewish temple.

Am I missing something here?

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