What Did Jesus Do? (And what will you?)

Commandments
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Obey God's commandments lovingly, both literally and in spirit.			⇐ ? ? ⇒	Follow man-made rules.
Gen 26:5 — Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws Lev 22:31 — Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am the LORD 1Ki 8:61 — Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day. Psa 119:35 — Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight. Psa 119:115 — Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God. Psa 119:127 — Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold. Ecc 12:13 — Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.	Mat 5:17 — Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. Mat 5:19 — Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven Mat 15:9 — But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. Luk 16:17 — And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail. Jhn 14:15 — If ye love me, keep my commandments. Jhn 14:21 — He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.	Rom 3:31 — Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law. Rom 7:12 — Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. Rom 6:15 — What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. 1Jo 2:3 — And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. 1Jo 2:4 — He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 1Jo 3:4 — ... for sin is the transgression of the law. 1Jo 5:3 — For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. 2Jo 1:6 — And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it. Rev 14:12 — Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God ... Rev 22:14 — Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life ...	⇐ ? ? ⇒	Various gods were worshiped in many different ways. Idols and other physical objects had holy significance. Laws that superseded God's laws were defined for the convenience of man by men that claimed an infallible connection to God.

Holidays
What did scripture say?	What did Jesus do/say?	What did the disciples do/say?	You?	What did Romans/Pagans do?
Celebrate God's holy days, which symbolize God's plan for mankind.			⇐ ? ? ⇒	Celebrate man-made festivities.
Lev 23:4 — These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. Isa 66:23 — And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD. Zec 14:16 — And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.	Mat 26:17 — Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover? Luk 2:42 — And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast. Jhn 7:37 — In the last day, that great day of the feast {of Tabernacles}, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.	Jhn 12:20 — And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast {of Passover} Act 18:21 — But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. Col 2:16 — Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days {for they are symbols of Christ} 1Cor 5:8 — Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.	⇐ ? ? ⇒	Jer 7:18 — The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. {Hot cross buns} Jer 10:2–4 — Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, ... For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. {Xmas tree} Ez 8:15–16 — ... thou shalt see greater abominations than these. ..., and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east. {Easter sunrise ceremony} 40 days of mourning for Tamuz became Lent. Saturnalia and Brumalia became Xmas. Hallowe'en. Days dedicated to a Roman gods became days dedicated to patron saints.

Sabbath
What did scripture say?	What did Jesus do/say?	What did the disciples do/say?	You?	What did Romans/Pagans do?
Respect God's Sabbath day with worship and learning.			⇐ ? ? ⇒	Honour Roman sun-god.
Gen 2:3 — And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. Ex 20:8 — Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Ex 20;11 — For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. Lev 23:3 — Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings. Deu 5:12 — Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee.	Mat 12:8 — For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day. Mat 12:12 — How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days. Mat 24:20 — But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: Mar 1:21 — And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught. Mar 6:2 — And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue ... Luk 4:16 — ... as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.	Luk 23:56 — And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment. Act 13:14 — ... they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down. Act 13:42 — And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath. Act 13:44 — And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God. Act 17:2 — And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures Act 18:4 And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.	⇐ ? ? ⇒	Romans dedicated the first day of the week to honour the Sun-god, Apollo/Helios, and designated that as the holy day of worship. Romans accused Sabbath-keeping Christians of Judaizing.

Food
What did scripture say?	What did Jesus do/say?	What did the disciples do/say?	You?	What did Romans/Pagans do?
Eat only what God has declared fit.			⇐ ? ? ⇒	Eat what tastes good and what honours other gods.
Gen 8:20 — And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. Lev 11:8 — Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you. Lev 20:25 — Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean. Eze 44:23 — And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.	Mar 5:13 — And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea. Not much is explicitly said about unclean food because at that time it was such an obvious thing that nothing needed to be said. The Pharisees wanted so much to catch Jesus violating even their own trivial additions to the Law, that had he or any of his disciples ever made as serious a violation as this they would have jumped at the opportunity to discredit him. It's clear that such a situation never arose.	Act 10:14 — But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean. Act 11:8 — But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth. 2Cor 6:17–18 — Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.	⇐ ? ? ⇒	Heathen baked bread, marked with a t or an X, and dedicated to Tamuz, husband of the Queen of Heaven. Because Tammuz was killed by a boar, eating ham was considered a symbol of luck. {Easter ham} Rabbits and decorated eggs symbolized fertility.

Soul
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Man is a mortal soul, subject to death and destruction.			⇐ ? ? ⇒	Man has an immortal soul.
Gen 2:7 — And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Eze 18:4 — ... the soul that sinneth, it shall die. People are mortal souls.	Luk 12:19 — And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.	Act 3:23 — And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people. 1Cor 15:45 — And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Jam 1:21 — ... receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. Jam 5:20 — Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death ... Rev 16:3 — And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.	⇐ ? ? ⇒	People have immortal souls within their physical bodies. Souls are inherently good. The physical body is inherently bad. Physical suffering can improve the soul.

Afterlife
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Until the resurrection, dead are unconscious. Those in the first resurrection will live and rule on Earth.			⇐ ? ? ⇒	Spirits immediately receive perpetual punishment or reward.
Psa 115:17 — The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence. Ecc 9:5 — For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing ... Eze 37:12–14 — Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.	Mat 5:5 — Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. Mat 22:32 — ... God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. Mar 12:25 — For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven. John 3:13 — And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven. Rev 22:12 — And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.	Act 2:34 — For David is not ascended into the heavens ... Act 17:32 — And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked ... Act 24:15 — ... there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust. 1Cor 15:20 — But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. 1Cor 15:52 — In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. Rev 20:4–5 — they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Rev 20:13–15 — And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. ... This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.{Third resurrection and final permanent death of the unsaved.}	⇐ ? ? ⇒	At bodily death, one's immortal soul goes to a spiritual world, either to perpetual bliss or to perpetual torment. Some can make penance, and by suffering cleanse their souls. Some souls become trapped on Earth, appearing as ghosts. Some souls return to Earth, appearing as angels. Necromancers can communicate with the dead.

Worship
What did scripture say?	What did Jesus do/say?	What did the disciples do/say?	You?	What did Romans/Pagans do?
Worship none but God, and avoid other customs, even when the truth becomes called heresy.			⇐ ? ? ⇒	Prayed to saints and angels through statues and icons.
Deu 12:30–32 — Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: ... What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.	Mat 15:8–9 — This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. Mat 7:20–23 — Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. Mat 12:39–40 — But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.	Acts 24:14 — But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets Rev 3:9 — Behold, I will make them of the {church} of Satan, which say they are {Christians}, and are not, but do lie ... Rev 9:20 — ... that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk Rev 22:8–9 — ... I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things. Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.	⇐ ? ? ⇒	Used statues and other images to facilitate worship. Prayed to dead saints. Treated relics as sacred objects with holy power. Asked the Mother of Heaven for help. To facilitate conversion, early Popes identified the Sun-god Apollo with Christ, and Venus with Mary. The sun-rays behind Apollo's head depicted in art work became the circular halo around Christ's, and eventually all holy people's, heads.