Bone Chips or the Bible?

A “silver box containing a small piece of bone believed to be a 2,000-year-old fragment of the remains of St Andrew” was stolen Aug 4 from the Transfiguration Greek Orthodox Church in Lowell, Massachusetts. This was reported in the Aug 9 Boston Globe article “Church Says Relic of Saint Stolen.”

The priest said, “What was beautiful for us here is what was inside the box.” The bone inside was about the size of the tip of a left pinkie finger.

The priest also said, “The relic of St Andrew is a beacon for prayer, symbolizing the purity of life.”

This priest is crazy! A bit of bone calls people to “prayer” and “purity??”

Comment – It’s the bible that points us to purity, not bone chips from who knows where! Psalm 119:9 says:

“Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed therefore to Thy word.”

The unregenerate mind, be it Catholic or its close cousin, the eastern so-called “Orthodox,” has this bizarre idea that dead body parts somehow help people draw closer to God – and this is straight out of paganism:

1. In ancient Greece, the shoulder blade of Pelops supposedly delivered the Eleans from pestilence.

2. The bones of Hector were brought to Thebes and reverenced because Zeus was impressed by this.

What can this priest do? He could easily solve his problem by putting a chicken bone in a box, and no one at his church would know the difference!

I’ll take the bible over bone chips any day of the week! Please pray daily for conversions from these eastern so-called “Orthodox” churches, as well as conversions from Romanism.