Page 30 - Attractive Deception - The False Hope of the Hebrew Roots Movement

Buddhist Monks Lighting Candles

Buddhist Monk with Prayer Beads

The Roman Catholic Church has monks. It practices candle lighting. It incorporates prayer beads in
the praying of the rosary. Seeing that none of these practices come from the Bible, and recognizing
their presence in other religions extant at the time that Rome began these practices, we observe that
it was through the practice of syncretism that these things were brought into that which calls itself
“Christianity.”

Satan has long been about the practice of introducing the profane into the holy. Before the advent
of Christianity, Satan had great success in enticing the Hebrew people to adopt many idolatrous
practices from the nations around them. The Old Testament contains a myriad of accounts of the
Israelites going after the gods of other nations. Embracing practices from other religions was such
a temptation that Yahweh forbid the Israelites to marry people from the nations around them lest they
be drawn away to worship their gods. Nevertheless, the people of Israel transgressed repeatedly, and
profoundly. They adopted rites, symbols, and even the outright worship of other deities. As
punishment, Yahweh sent plagues, drought, pestilence, and warring nations against them. When they