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I don't celebrate Christmas but not because of religious reasons. It's because Christmas is for kids. I feel sorry for children caught up in fanatical ideology that robs them of the joy of opening presents under a Christmas tree on Christmas morning. Imagine going to school and having to tell the other kids that you didn't get anything for Christmas because a religious belief that gift giving offends some vengeful god.
I found it quite entertaining that our Hindu friends have a Christmas tree and gifts for their five year old. To her it's just another holiday in addition to the many her Hindu parents celebrate. It has nothing to do with their many gods nor the Christian's one god. She's just being a kid and rightfully so.
Kids get a present a day during Hanukah; they don't feel robbed at all. Peace
I don't celebrate Christmas but not because of religious reasons. It's because Christmas is for kids. I feel sorry for children caught up in fanatical ideology that robs them of the joy of opening presents under a Christmas tree on Christmas morning. Imagine going to school and having to tell the other kids that you didn't get anything for Christmas because a religious belief that gift giving offends some vengeful god.
I found it quite entertaining that our Hindu friends have a Christmas tree and gifts for their five year old. To her it's just another holiday in addition to the many her Hindu parents celebrate. It has nothing to do with their many gods nor the Christian's one god. She's just being a kid and rightfully so.
You seem very confused as to the reality of it all. The world-centuries ago added pagan practices off the table of demons( 1Cor 10:21)-- this is the reality of what parents are handing to their own children. By satan and his teachers transforming into an angel of light.( 2Cor 11:12-15)-- its been just about his #1 tool since the start.
Yes, they may say Happy Birthday to Jesus, but do they realize that Jesus is set to take action to those who are not honoring him by their lifestyle? Further, as you say, when Jesus was on the earth, did he ever celebrate his birthday with family and friends? Or any other birthdays, including those of his family and disciples? I would imagine if he did, God would have let us know through the pages of the Bible.
Yes, I'm sure if it is so honored a day as it is today that they would not have missed the necessity to instruct us to honor it also.
You seem very confused as to the reality of it all. The world-centuries ago added pagan practices off the table of demons( 1Cor 10:21)-- this is the reality of what parents are handing to their own children. By satan and his teachers transforming into an angel of light.( 2Cor 11:12-15)-- its been just about his #1 tool since the start.
Only a wicked heartless counsel would drive a person to curse the day they were born, in any form of meaning.
A person is born under the stain and also the curse of the sin of Adam, and that curse is the condemnation of toil and death. Jesus was not under the condemnation because He was born of the virgin and therefore not of the seed of Adam per the spirit but only by the flesh. Therefore, He was fit to redeem us by putting on His Life.
Yes, I'm sure if it is so honored a day as it is today that they would not have missed the necessity to instruct us to honor it also.
You would think it would have merited at least one scripture, wouldn't you? I mean given half the world is gaga over it and spend billions of dollars on it, yet G-d is silent about it. Odd how these things happen, isn't it? Peace
Yes, I'm sure if it is so honored a day as it is today that they would not have missed the necessity to instruct us to honor it also.
This is what we do at Christmas.
Luke 2
8 In the same region there were some shepherds staying out in the fields and keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And an angel of the Lord suddenly stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them; and they were terribly frightened. 10 But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid; for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be for all the people; 11 for today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. 12 This will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.” 13 And suddenly there appeared with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying,
14 “Glory to God in the highest,
And on earth peace among men with whom He is pleased.”
You seem very confused as to the reality of it all. The world-centuries ago added pagan practices off the table of demons( 1Cor 10:21)-- this is the reality of what parents are handing to their own children. By satan and his teachers transforming into an angel of light.( 2Cor 11:12-15)-- its been just about his #1 tool since the start.
8 In the same region there were some shepherds staying out in the fields and keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And an angel of the Lord suddenly stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them; and they were terribly frightened. 10 But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid; for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be for all the people; 11 for today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. 12 This will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.” 13 And suddenly there appeared with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying,
14 “Glory to God in the highest,
And on earth peace among men with whom He is pleased.”
A winter birth just seems to be unaccountable.
Though there is a peculiar specific in the verses concerning Miriam (mary)
Purification: how many days would this be.
And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord;
Leviticus 12King James Version (KJV)
12 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean.
3 And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
4 And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be fulfilled.
Sins = All the killings of one another in the world.
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