I shouldn't have put 'Christmas' in the thread, but didn't see any way around it. I think it's turning people off.....LOL!
This goes back to a convo Rico and I were involved in a few days ago in which he claimed that I denied the oneness of God by stating that God wasn't born but Jesus was, therefore separating God and Jesus in making that statement.
That, of course, is an untruth, and when revisiting the thread he referred to on another forum, I found that 17 other people agreed with me, while only 6 others differed for various reasons that weren't stated.
Because of my denial of the oneness of God, it's been stated that there is no room for my friendship in his life, which is sad, especially because that assumption is totally false.
So, I started this thread to show him that I was correct in saying what I did while believing oneness all the same, and made it private so he won't deny the friendships of those who will sound to him as if they are also denying oneness.
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I shouldn't have put 'Christmas' in the thread, but didn't see any way around it. I think it's turning people off.....LOL!
This goes back to a convo Rico and I were involved in a few days ago in which he claimed that I denied the oneness of God by stating that God wasn't born but Jesus was, therefore separating God and Jesus in making that statement.
That, of course, is an untruth, and when revisiting the thread he referred to on another forum, I found that 17 other people agreed with me, while only 6 others differed for various reasons that weren't stated.
Because of my denial of the oneness of God, it's been stated that there is no room for my friendship in his life, which is sad, especially because that assumption is totally false.
So, I started this thread to show him that I was correct in saying what I did while believing oneness all the same, and made it private so he won't deny the friendships of those who will sound to him as if they are also denying oneness.
dont let anybody be the grinch ho, christmas is great, celebrate with all your heart, lol,dt
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Wasn't sure how to answer the poll, but here are my thoughts:
I don't think of Christmas as being God's "birthday". When I think of birthdays, I think of the celebration we have where on the anniversary of the day of one's birth, we celebrate that person getting another year older.
This analogy doesn't work with God, in my opinion. First we don't know the actual day that he was born, secondly he doesn't "age" every year, and we don't give him presents or bake him a cake.
So I do not think of Christmas as celebrating jesus' birthday. To me, Christmas is a time when to give special remembrance to the fact that God became flesh and dwelt among us.
This sounds more like a theological tangle than anything else. When people celebrate Christmas, they're not celebrating God's birthday, they're celebrating the birthday of God's son...the MAN Christ Jesus, who was born of Mary. Jesus is God in the flesh...but the flesh He came in is a man who was born at a particular place, at a particular time. To not understand the true (and complete) humanity of Jesus is nearly as big an error as not understanding the deity of Jesus.
Let me put it to you like this: God is a spirit...was Jesus only spirit? Was he not flesh as well?
No man has seen God at any time...so was Jesus invisible?
The point is not that Jesus is not God...the point is that Jesus was more than JUST God...he was a man as well.
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