For people who are doing Lent...?

What are you guys going to give up for Lent?

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me and my b/f are going to give up

fast food

sodas

and putting extra salt on things (we use alot! i looove salt!) lol

but ya giving something up together will be easier than by urself!!

plus im going to try to pray more~!

what are you giving up!?!!!!

goodluck

HAPPY FAT TUESDAY!!!!

For people who are doing Lent...?

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I%26#039;m going to cut down on Answers and catch up on my housework.|||pop|||sweets|||How about giving up a belief in a MAN-MADE dOCTRINE, WITH no scriptural foundation or basis?

First, let%26#039;s see what catholics say about lent:

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09152a.h...

Ok, we see a lot of talk about the 40 years that the Jews wandered in the desert, the 40 days Jesus was in the wilderness, ect.

But WHERE ARE THE SCFRIPTURAL REFERENCES saying that we should know anything more about these events, then they happened, or practice the same things, (such as not eating meat, giving up things for the time period of Lent), ect?

There is NOTHING in Scripture that even remotely SUGGESTS that we should do ANY of these things!

Just a bunch of %26quot;supposed%26quot; theologians, saying that we DO have to do these.

What I see here, is that catholics are commanded to do these things, simply as %26quot;brownie points%26quot;, in order to get in good with God!

That falls under the catagory of what in Scripture is called WORKS.

What does the Bible say about works?

Ephesians 2:8-9 (New International Version)

8For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith鈥攁nd this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God鈥?9not by works, so that no one can boast.

Is giving up anything going to matter to God?

Is NOT eating meat on a specific day, going to matter to God?

Is celebrating a NON-SCRIPTURALy supported time period, going to matter to God?

How does God see any of these things, if they are simply to try to get in good with Him?

Isaiah 64:6 (New International Version)

6 All of us have become like one who is unclean,

and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags;

we all shrivel up like a leaf,

and like the wind our sins sweep us away.

All of these works that I have pointed out are as FILTHY RAGS before God.

They are USELESS in the role that God WANTS us to live!

Don%26#039;t you think that it is time to get rid of all the excess baggage, that man, NOT GOD, has %26quot;ordained%26quot;, %26amp; start living ONLY by what the BIBLE teaches?|||christianity|||chocolate %26amp; potato chips|||I%26#039;m non-religious but I love the idea of Lent... and half of my family is Catholic.

I%26#039;m giving up shopping.

I have new furniture to save for and I seem to forget I%26#039;m saving every time I go to the mall!