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dljrn04
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Are we heathens for celebrating Christmas?Posted : 7 Dec, 2012 12:12 PMJeremiah 10: 2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. |
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Are we heathens for celebrating Christmas?Posted : 7 Dec, 2012 10:16 PMIt's not wrong to celebrate God's gift of a saviour. Having said that, we know Christ almost certainly wasn't born in December, and the date (and some of the practices) are pagan in origin, so we're effectively trying to dress up a pagan festival as being Christian - the proof is a heathen world happy to keep the tree and everything else in Christmas whilst denying Christ Himself! |
dljrn04
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Are we heathens for celebrating Christmas?Posted : 8 Dec, 2012 04:39 AMThank you |
DontHitThatMark
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Are we heathens for celebrating Christmas?Posted : 8 Dec, 2012 06:04 PMI think the problem with Christmas is similar to the problem with eating meat offered to idols, or with observing feasts of the old covenant. If your own conscience is clear, to your own master you stand or fall. The only thing we need to worry about is whether our own conscience is clear before God, and that we follow him in all things and not the world. It's possible to observe Christmas without being part of the world, just like with birthdays, there is nothing inherently evil about either of them, although one could observe them in a evil way, or in a way that is not "edifying", or that makes another stumble. I think that any involvement "Santa", or other figures, have in a holiday is kind of questionable though, especially concerning children, I would consider that causing another person to stumble. If anything is a fable, it's Santa, and making/letting your child believe he is real is kind of unhealthy, especially for a christian. I have an Aunt that was so crushed when she found out Santa was not real, that she even abandoned God because she considered that another "fable" or "trick". That's an extreme case, but I just don't see any healthy reason for allowing literal belief of pagan fables into anything. Placement of the day is also pretty questionable and is indicative of the compromise with paganism that took place in the early church, but I don't think it's that important. |
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Philipian
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Are we heathens for celebrating Christmas?Posted : 9 Dec, 2012 04:24 AM@dljrn04, for all Christ did for humanity, it the world chose to pick out 25th of December (thought we know its highly uncertain it was 25th) to celebrate in any way, so let it be. |
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Are we heathens for celebrating Christmas?Posted : 10 Dec, 2012 05:09 AMHave you notticed that Christmas is becoming darker. The movies are becoming darker. The world steals everything innocent. |
Philipian
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Are we heathens for celebrating Christmas?Posted : 10 Dec, 2012 07:19 AMTo me for a long time running and coming now. I have learn to put priority where it belong. That should be for everyman born of the Spirit |
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Are we heathens for celebrating Christmas?Posted : 10 Dec, 2012 04:36 PMhttp://cbcg.org/franklin/PM/Christmas-Greatest-Story-Never-Told.pdf |