prayer warriors (following Jesus Christ, everyone welcome)

[Chicken Girl1]

Cuz?

Yup

 

[PeepersMama]

Yup

I guessed right (well, I suppose it was an educated guess )

 

[Bills vs Beaks]

Ok...Well i am gonna try to explain. Forgive me if this is a terrible answer

I swim for sport. It helps you stretch and to control your breathing. Everyone can swim if they learn, even if you are old and can't go fast you can still use it for exercise. Swimming did not begin as a pagan practice. Yoga did. I see no reason to get involved in something that came from something evil when there are other perfectly good options

Very well put. Also you swim? I do too! I've only met one other swimmer on BYC.

Thanks
Cool! Swimming is the best sport :highfive

 

[Chicken Girl1]

Thanks
Cool! Swimming is the best sport :highfive

Totally,

What is your best stroke? I'm a distance freestyler/400 Imer.

 

[Bills vs Beaks]

Sprint freestyle
And I'm not too bad at fly (imho lol)
But I hate backstroke

 

[ShrekDawg]

Yes

Thanks, I think it might help. I have anxiety and am suverely introverted so I understand that those types of activities can be stressful. I've personally found that doing small things at first and working my way up helps. Instead of just jumping in and doing something big (like the camp) first, which would be pretty overwhelming.

Good point. Definitely something to consider.

That makes sense, thanks

 

[chickluvinfreak]

Not really, it wouldn't be yoga then. Go back and read the last few pages. Nothing wrong with stretching and relaxing, but yoga is a whole different deal.

My only worry about doing it even without the mysticism and meditation is that the stretches and moves themselves were created as way to worship false gods.

Ok...Well i am gonna try to explain. Forgive me if this is a terrible answer
I swim for sport. It helps you stretch and to control your breathing. Everyone can swim if they learn, even if you are old and can't go fast you can still use it for exercise. Swimming did not begin as a pagan practice. Yoga did. I see no reason to get involved in something that came from something evil when there are other perfectly good options

Ok, I didn't know all that but it makes sense. I had a doctor once who told me I needed to do yoga but I could never get into it I did do stretches instead though, pretty sure there's nothing wrong with that. Thanks

That makes sense, thanks

Welcome

 

[lazy gardener]

Jacob Study ,,,,,,,,,,,, comments appreciated

Genesis 46New American Standard Bible (NASB)
Jacob Moves to Egypt

46 So Israel set out with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. 2 God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, “Jacob, Jacob.” And he said, “Here I am.” 3 He said, “I am God, the God of your father; do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you a great nation there. 4 I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also surely bring you up again; and Joseph will close your eyes.”
5 Then Jacob arose from Beersheba; and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob and their little ones and their wives in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. 6 They took their livestock and their property, which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and came to Egypt, Jacob and all his descendants with him: 7 his sons and his grandsons with him, his daughters and his granddaughters, and all his descendants he brought with him to Egypt.
Those Who Came to Egypt

8 Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, Jacob and his sons, who went to Egypt: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn. 9 The sons of Reuben: Hanoch and Pallu and Hezron and Carmi. 10 The sons of Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman. 11 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 12 The sons of Judah: Er and Onan and Shelah and Perez and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan). And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul. 13 The sons of Issachar: Tola and Puvvah and Iob and Shimron. 14 The sons of Zebulun: Sered and Elon and Jahleel. 15 These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, with his daughter Dinah; all his sons and his daughters numbered thirty-three. 16 The sons of Gad: Ziphion and Haggi, Shuni and Ezbon, Eri and Arodi and Areli. 17 The sons of Asher: Imnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah and their sister Serah. And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel. 18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah; and she bore to Jacob these sixteen persons. 19 The sons of Jacob’s wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. 20 Now to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him. 21 The sons of Benjamin: Bela and Becher and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman, Ehi and Rosh, Muppim and Huppim and Ard. 22 These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob; there were fourteen persons in all. 23 The sons of Dan: Hushim. 24 The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel and Guni and Jezer and Shillem. 25 These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, and she bore these to Jacob; there were seven persons in all. 26 All the persons belonging to Jacob, who came to Egypt, his direct descendants, not including the wives of Jacob’s sons, were sixty-six persons in all, 27 and the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt were two; all the persons of the house of Jacob, who came to Egypt, were seventy.
28 Now he sent Judah before him to Joseph, to point out the way before him to Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen. 29 Joseph prepared his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel; as soon as he appeared before him, he fell on his neck and wept on his neck a long time. 30 Then Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive.” 31 Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, “I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and will say to him, ‘My brothers and my father’s household, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me; 32 and the men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock; and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.’ 33 When Pharaoh calls you and says, ‘What is your occupation?’ 34 you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,’ that you may live in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is loathsome to the Egyptians.”

I'm thinking that it was a blessing that they were allowed to settle in Goshen, which kept them somewhat separated from the Egyptians and their false gods.

Quote: And then that

1 Thessalonians 5:22King James Version (KJV)

22 Abstain from all appearance of evil.

I guess that if I were invited to participate in a yoga class, I would be abstaining, based on this very verse. Now, I'd be happy to invite you all to a stretching class, and we could put on some Christian tunes!

 

[ShrekDawg]

:/

 

[PeepersMama]

I'm thinking that it was a blessing that they were allowed to settle in Goshen, which kept them somewhat separated from the Egyptians and their false gods.
1 Thessalonians 5:22King James Version (KJV)

22 Abstain from all appearance of evil.

I guess that if I were invited to participate in a yoga class, I would be abstaining, based on this very verse. Now, I'd be happy to invite you all to a stretching class, and we could put on some Christian tunes!