CIU Religion Invading Nature

that whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, you fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up;

and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.

I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can't stand your solemn assemblies.

You also carried the tent of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.

All the sinners of my people will die by the sword, who say, 'Evil won't overtake nor meet us.'

The Jews therefore answered him, "What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?"

Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship."

So the Jews said to him who was cured, "It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry the mat."

The Jews therefore did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight,

and asked them, "Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?"

Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, 'We see.' Therefore your sin remains.

They said to her, "You are crazy!" But she insisted that it was so. They said, "It is his angel."

The priest of Jupiter, whose temple was in front of their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, and would have made a sacrifice along with the multitudes.

For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess all of these.

For this people's heart has grown callous. Their ears are dull of hearing. Their eyes they have closed. Lest they should see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, and I would heal them.'

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,