Custom
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English
Noun
custom (plural customs)
- Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living.
- And teach customs which are not lawful. Acts xvi. 21.
- Moved beyond his custom, Gama said. Tennyson.
- A custom More honored in the breach than the observance. Shakespeare
- Habitual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a shop, manufactory, etc., for making purchases or giving orders; business support.
- Let him have your custom, but not your votes. Addison.
- (Law) Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription.
- Usage is a fact. Custom is a law. There can be no custom without usage, though there may be usage without custom. Wharton.
- (Obsolete) Familiar aquaintance; familiarity.
- Age can not wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. Shakespeare
- The customary [[toll], tax, or tribute.
- Render, therefore, to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom. Rom. xiii. 7.
- (plural usage:) Duties or tolls imposed by law on commodities, imported or exported.
Synonyms
Transitive Verb
- (Obsolete) To make familiar; to accustom.
- (Obsolete) To supply with customers.
- (Obsolete) To pay the customs of.
Intransitive Verb
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Ludwig77 wrote:
> As a Christian, I used to see truth as being independent of experience.
> My argument would go like this:
>
> God reveals truth to us through the Holy scriptures. If my experience
> contradicts that revelation, my experience is wrong.
Why don't you do like the most of us Christians do, and read scripture
to say what you want it to say? For example, if you don't like the way
Jeremiah 7:22 reads, just read it to say what you want it to say. Use
the same approach to the rest of scripture that you use when you read
Jeremiah 7:22. Problem solved! ;-)
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On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 21:29:18 +0000 (UTC), in message
<177.29.16.05.073580000@srcbs.org>,TomaszAntkow...@lycos.com wrote:
>I'm curious whether there are any other examples of such or similar
>parallels and whether the mystery religions contained a concept of a
>Redeemer that can be traced prior to Christianity.
I believe that the concept of a Redeemer comes from before the world
was created, when it was introduced by our Heavenly Father to all his
spirit children. On that occasion "all the sons of God shouted for
joy."
http://scriptures.lds.org/job/38/1-7
I know very little about the "mystery religions," but I can point you
to numerous references to the teaching of the Gospel of Jesus Christ
long before the Redeemer's mortal ministry.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints teaches that the Gospel
of Jesus Christ has been the same throughout all ages, but that it has
been lost from the earth repeatedly through sin and apostasy, making
repeated restoration necessary. The Latter-day restoration through the
Prophet Joseph Smith gathers together the teachings and priesthood keys
of all prior dispensations.
Accordingly, we believe that Adam was the first Christian, and that all
the patriarchs and prophets of the Old Testament were Christians. When
Jesus Christ taught his Gospel to the Jews during his mortal ministry,
he was only teaching them that which their fathers had rejected at
Sinai.
The ancient origin of the Gospel of Jesus Christ is clearly taught in
the Bible. The apostle Paul was repeatedly forced to confront Jewish
converts to Christianity who did not understand that the Law of Moses
had been fulfilled by Christ and who sought to impose its observance on
non-Jewish converts. In his epistle to the churches in Galatia, Paul
chides them for this "foolishness". In chapter 3 he explains that the
Gospel was given to Abraham with the promise that all nations would be
blessed through Christ, his seed. He taught that the Law of Moses (the
Torah), which came 430 years after Abraham, could not possibly have
annulled the Gospel.
http://scriptures.lds.org/gal/3/1-18
He goes on to explain that the Law of Moses was given because of the
transgressions of the children of Israel.
http://scriptures.lds.org/gal/3/19#19
"Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that
we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no
longer under a schoolmaster."
http://scriptures.lds.org/gal/3/24-25#24
(The LDS canon includes the King James translation of the Bible, The
Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, The Doctrine and
Covenants, and The Pearl of Great Price. The latter three books, which
explain the eternal nature of the Gospel of Jesus Christ most clearly,
are considered off-topic for this discussion group, as is the Qur'an.
I would be happy to continue this conversation with you by e-mail, or
in soc.religion.christian, where discussion of the LDS canon is
permitted.)
Tracy Hall
hthalljr'gmail'com
I assume sole responsibility for my opinions, which do not necessarily
reflect any official position of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints.
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