Fellow Christians, do you believe that your place of worship is the same as what is described in the bible?

Question

If so, then where is the altar located in the place where you worship?

This is in the bible. The NEW TESTAMENT describes there being an altar in the Christian place of worship.

"Therefore, if you bring your gift to the altar, and there recall that your brother has anything against you, leave your gift there at the altar, go first and be reconciled with your brother, and then come and offer your gift." -The Holy Bible (Matthew 5:23-24)

"Another angel came and stood at the altar, holding a gold censer. He was given a great quantity of incense to offer, along with the prayers of all the holy ones, on the gold altar that was before the throne." -The Holy Bible (Revelation 8:3)

I guess that a lot of Protestants don't think that it's important to be like the Church of the New Testament. They would rather make up their own traditions.

Smartassawhip- No, I didn't forget that Jesus was Jewish, but I think that, like many Protestants, you divorced yourself from the Jewish roots of Christianity. The Catholic Church believes in taking the entire bible into it's full context, Old and New Testaments, and into the context of the Church that put together the books of the New Testament. The sacred oral traditions of the Church predates the bible. The bible is those sacred oral traditions put down onto paper.

Answer 1

Yes right in the front middle.

Our Worship and many of our prayers are taken directly from the early church modeled on the Jewish. Many of our prayers sound Jewish.

Answer 2

Hello,
Is that the only thing that you think is wrong with the modern church? There being an altar or no altar is really pretty trivial considering all the other major problems with "The Church".
I know why Catholics have an altar. Altars were a place of sacrifice and Catholics have "the sacrifice of the Mass" where Christ is sacrificed all over again, repeatedly, day after day. However, the Bible says that Christ died ONCE for all. I don't believe that Christ intended the repeated sacrifice. Now, I do believe that Christ intended that people recognize that he is present in the bread and wine. This is clear is Scripture. Yet almost all protestants say that he is not present and that it is only symbolic. By saying this they all deny the Scriptures.
By the way I am an ex Catholic who can not find a Church.

Answer 3

I do not believe that a physical altar is required. Matthew 18:20 states:

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

Christ was the final sacrifice for the remission of our sins. There is no longer a need for a physical altar as the sacrifice has already been made.

Answer 4

You forget that Jesus was Jewish and that Jews worshiped in the Temple in Jerusalem at that time. So the alter Jesus was talking about was the alter in the Jewish Temple not in a Christian
Church. That being said, Every church I have ever been in, Catholic or Protestant, had an alter in it.

So, I guess what I would like to ask, is, What's your point?

Answer 5

the authentic issue right here then isn't any matter if the pagan association with the solar and solar worship "spoils the day." Did the pagans quite deal with to "thieve an afternoon" from God and therefore pollute it, making it incorrect for God and guy? there is, after all, a Scripture that refers back to the Messiah because the solar of righteousness. It doesn't considered strange then that they could make the association with that date subsequently. The flow became a emblem of Babylonian state faith, and in a experience, its adoption by technique of Christianity demonstrates Christ's victory over demise and pretend faith that finally is going decrease back to the devil. yet even as it is composed of Christmas, one way or the different this line of reasoning will change into invalid? a million. Do Christians have the freedom to esteem an afternoon or no longer? in the journey that they pick to esteem an afternoon in social gathering of the start of Christ, then it is their top. 2. can we hence have the right to exclude any particular day because of a pagan association? can we "poison the properly" because the day chosen coincides with a pagan social gathering? I for one refuse to be a choose of others over one of those remember. i'm no longer going to face before God, accused of judging different Christians over days and their observance. .

Answer 6

I personally feels that many people thought that altar must be an material things or things that our eyes can see.

I feel that the real altar is inside you. If you can't reflect yourself first, how do you go to the altar to present yourself to GOD.

Answer 7

Unfortunately, you are reading in the wrong place. Jesus stated were we would be worshiping:

John 4:21Jesus declared, "Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth." NIV

Answer 8

hmm thats an interesting question! I believe the altar is like at the front of the crowd, because its like a public declaration.. Sometimes during worship you can bring your offering/tithes up front and lay them on the ground...thats what I believe this means...just my opinion

Answer 9

Fellow christian? what does that mean . You know im not only discouraged by those whom call themselves christians but more so by the complexes they use for their so called "services". Get real, its about money and who is popular. Its someone with a wise idea playing upon someone whom is desperate a looking for genuine help and using the good LORD to distort.

Answer 10

little one,
Try to read and learn some more.
Try and search where our creator's place of worship had been turned into a den of thieves out there on planet earth.
If you can trace it you will be on the right track on your way home.