The Way of the Master Moment throwing dust in the eyes

[kyredneck]

Who are 'Febtiles'?

During the Hasmonean period four sects of Jews arose - the Pharisees, who viewed righteous as a matter of keeping the Law at an individual level; the Sadducees, who focused on ceremonial law; the Essenes who headed for the hills; and the Febtiles who got down and partied.

...dumb me...thought it was tiles made in February...

 

[JonC]

...dumb me...thought it was tiles made in February...

Nope. But that's a common mistake.

February was their holy month, hence the name. We get the word "disco", referring to 70's pop music used in clubs (discos) for partying down, from their word "disco" - which referred to ancient music used in clubs (discos) for partying down.

 

[JonC]

It’s not a joking matter, @kyredneck ,

Few realize the extent and historical significance of this movement, and it is a common mistake - but to borrow from Spurgeon, some latch onto one truth and expand it until they can see nothing else. And this is a reason that few people today realize the impact of disco on the Church.

In 1776 John Calvin published his “Canons of Dort”. But later that same year he wrote another less studied document – His “Treatise Against Funk”. Quite simply, the Canons overshadowed the Treatise. But within that document Calvin condemned what he referred to as the "multi-faceted mirrored spheres" of Arminianism (James Arminius called them “disco balls” and about a decade later John Wesley coined the phrase “night fever” to describe his affection for these devices).

BUT the disco cult didn’t originate with the Remonstrance. There is a first century inscription (“ancient graffiti”) on a wall in Smyrna that reads:

Και όποιος θα βρεθεί
Χωρίς την ψυχή να κατεβαίνει
Πρέπει να σταθεί και να αντιμετωπίσει τα κυνηγόσκυλα της κόλασης
Και σαπίστε μέσα στο κέλυφος ενός πτώματος

Which loosely translates “whoever will be found without the soul descending, He must stand and face the hounds of hell and decay within the shell of a corpse” (an obvious reference to first century post-discoism).

And consider this line from Rabbi Ben Beinbeegee (“Boogie Nights”, 1517):

“Remember the Nelphim,
These men of old, men of renown,
men who liked to boogie down”.

There is an important tradition, contribution, and theological significance we have lost when we forgot about the Febtiles.

 

[Yeshua1]

You cannot really preach the cross without explaining its relationship to the broken law.....can You?
What do you say y1.......?
You say;
Just believe in Jesus.....
The person says why?
Then you just say believe he died on a cross...
The person says why?
Do you just say...it is good news...He died on a cross?
You mentioned sin.....
The person says....what is sin?
What do you say now? Sin is a transgression of the .....l_w.....buy a vowel.

I would so as Paul sis, tell them the Gospel, and have the Holy Spirit doing His work to convict them!