WHOOSH ! ~ haha today's bible study at church was GREAT !
its the first time ive gone for sunday bible study, and now i want to go for it every week ! okie so today they did about taoism:

1) food offered to idols

2) images of wordship

3) Qigong ( YES ! qigong ) xD


Firstly. food , cannot be a legal entry for the devil.
1 corinthians 10:25-27 - eat anything sold in the meat market whithout raising questions of conscience, for, " the earth is the Lord's, and everything in it". if some unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat whatever is put before you without raising questions of conscience.

also. idolism is like creating a image and just wordshipping your own creation. isn't that dumb? AN IDOL IS LIFELESS ! Psalms 115:4-8 - But their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of man. They mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but they cannot see. they have ears, but cannot hear, noses, but they cannot smell; they have hands, but cannot feel, feet, but they cannot walk; nor can they utter a sound with their throats. Those who make them will be like them, and so will all who trust in them.

SO. the legal rights for the devil's entry is not through the consumption of food, But, the participation in idol wordship. and when one turns to christ, it is very important for him to renounce all ties with idols of the past. 1 corinthians 8:7 - But not everyone knows this. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that when they eat such food they think of it as being sacrificed to an idol, and since their conscience is weak, it is defiled.

HOWEVER, we christians shouldn't eat these food offered to idols because.
- we need to stand for what we believe. its is for our testimonies to our parents & friends. and also fellow christians, a need to show a example for other believers.

SECONDLY, images of wordship. we dont destroy it because it has power, BUT it is the demons that are camouflaged by it that idol that we want to destroy.1 Corinthians 10:20 - No, but sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, and i do not want you to be participants with demons. idols have no power ! its the demons that are behind it.

THIRDLY, when people practice qigong to a certain level, they practice meditation. and in the process they let demons to enter and live in them. at times people get too obsessed in practicing these martial arts, they turn insane. and its proven.
refer to : matthew 8 and mark 5 . :)

so, after church. i mom fetched me from church and we went to queensway. ate luch and bought some things and went grandma house. and later it was dinner at whapoa !
my favourite fish head steamboat ! :D okie thats all for today....

*-kenric :) 9:20 . 24 September 2006