Christmas-A Christian Holiday? (Gospel, verse, Old Testament, heaven)

[alicenevada]

Originally Posted by CatManDoo

My faith is with God, and He says nothing about the rightness/wrongness of erecting a Christmas tree in my home. So a fellow Christian rebuking me for something that God has not deemed right or wrong does not make me happy.

I certainly hope you don't feel I was rebuking you by posting this thread? I looked back over my posts and I still don't feel that I did that. It is your decision entirely.

[lovethetruth]

a little more discernment and a little less watchtower.

[renriq02]

Jeremiah 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.
3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. 4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

putting up trees in decking it with silver/gold ornaments has been around longer than you think

Originally Posted by CatManDoo

My faith is with God, and He says nothing about the rightness/wrongness of erecting a Christmas tree in my home. So a fellow Christian rebuking me for something that God has not deemed right or wrong does not make me happy.

[Alpha8207]

Originally Posted by alicenevada

But does not celebrating it because you are not comfortable with the pagan parts make you unchristian? Nah.

I agree, it doesn't. But do you think I am sinning when I celebrate Christmas? Or does it depend on what 'celebrate Christmas' looks like?

Originally Posted by renriq02

Jeremiah 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.
3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. 4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

putting up trees in decking it with silver/gold ornaments has been around longer than you think

Please don't tell me you think that's talking about Christmas trees.....please....

[alicenevada]

Originally Posted by lovethetruth

a little more discernment and a little less watchtower.

I never once quoted a Watchtower in my responses to you and you know it.

[alicenevada]

Originally Posted by Alpha8207

I agree, it doesn't. But do you think I am sinning when I celebrate Christmas? Or does it depend on what 'celebrate Christmas' looks like?



Please don't tell me you think that's talking about Christmas trees.....please....

No it isnt talking about Christmas trees. That topic was visited on the R & P forum actually and I addressed it.

Yes, I believe it is wrong to celebrate Christmas. Otherwise I would do it.

[albion]

My family have an original Robert Barker bible printed in I think 1636.
It has notes written by my ancestors within it. One is an entry for christmas day 1651, in that year christmas was celebrated on January 6th.
As there is a longstanding acceptence of paganism in my community, the feeling is that the pagans celebrated yuletide and the solstice a thousand years before Christianity even existed so they have the right to celebrate their religion as well
They worship the natural world, tangible things like the elements. and the soil that sustains us, I don't see anything wrong with that.
And i've never heard of a pagan fundamentalist.

[renriq02]

it's talking about the 'practice' of cutting trees, decorating it, and fastening it down....

whether it was done 2,000 years ago, and we have a new name for it today...it wouldnt make a difference IMHO

Originally Posted by Alpha8207

I agree, it doesn't. But do you think I am sinning when I celebrate Christmas? Or does it depend on what 'celebrate Christmas' looks like?



Please don't tell me you think that's talking about Christmas trees.....please....

[Towhee]

Originally Posted by renriq02

Of course Christmas is a Christian holiday.

Just because some people want to celebrate it the paganistic way doesnt make the whole holiday UNCHRISTIAN

It is my understanding that a Christian is a follower of Christ....one who follows His doctrine. I am having an awful hard time finding Christmas in Christ's doctrine!!!! I can not even find "mass" in His doctrine!!!

[Alpha8207]

Originally Posted by alicenevada

No it isnt talking about Christmas trees. That topic was visited on the R & P forum actually and I addressed it.

Yes, I believe it is wrong to celebrate Christmas. Otherwise I would do it.

My comments on the Christmas tree weren't directed at you....

.....but anyway....

....so when I sit down on Christmas eve, open my bible with my family gathered around and read the story of the birth of my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, Jehovah's Witnesses think I am sinning.

I'll be sitting in my living room being pro-Christ but you'd have me do what?

Yep! Reason number #434,342,423 to not be a Jehovah's Witness (denominationally speaking, of course)