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11-19-2008, 09:29 PM
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Re: We're Not Putting X-Mas Trees Up!
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tree or no tree - no big deal.
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I think it can be a big deal to kids. Like Miss Brat said....she regrets that part of her childhood (not having a tree). My kids do also.
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11-19-2008, 09:31 PM
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Re: We're Not Putting X-Mas Trees Up!
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I think it can be a big deal to kids. Like Miss Brat said....she regrets that part of her childhood (not having a tree). My kids do also.
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I really don't... though we could have used a few more toys. 
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11-19-2008, 09:49 PM
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Re: We're Not Putting X-Mas Trees Up!
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Originally Posted by George
If you want to use the term "XMAS" instead of the correct word "CHRISTMAS" you may as well join the rest of the athiests who are fighting to have the word Christmas removed. Because Christ is in Christmas, it condemns people. I take personal offense when anyone eliminates Christ and replaces Him with an "X." Keep Christ out and we are guaranteed to have more and more of our religious rights removed. The way the world is going, we will soon be in the tribulation.
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I guess Atheists made up the Greek alphabet?
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Just another thought - Throughout my years of ministry, the parents who lived a life full of the Word, with love, compassion, and a godly example, tended to have children who were consecrated to God. The parents who crammed it down their kids throats and ruled their home with iron fists had the highest percentage of backslidden children who, when they became adults, hated church and anything to do with God.
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Is that what happened to you? I have no clue as to why you are introducing the above opinion. So that's why I'm asking if it was your own personal experience?
In Jesus name
Brother Benincasa
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11-19-2008, 09:51 PM
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Re: We're Not Putting X-Mas Trees Up!
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This is our family's 13th year of not participating in christmas.
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11-19-2008, 09:53 PM
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Re: We're Not Putting X-Mas Trees Up!
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And let us not forget that Thanksgiving was celebrated (for the most part) with Native Americans, and we all know that they worshiped the Sun, not the Son.
And yet we sit down for Roman type meals.
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Roman type meals? Oh, yeah. I wonder if Nero ate a lot of boudin? 
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11-19-2008, 09:56 PM
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Re: We're Not Putting X-Mas Trees Up!
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Yes! Yes! Now you understand the full implecations of taking Christ out of the season...
I agree with what you have posted....
God Bless you!
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Yeah we can see how xmas was a deterrent to same sex marriage. Did I happen to mention that the homosexuals down here love celebrating the popish tree festival?
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11-19-2008, 09:56 PM
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Re: We're Not Putting X-Mas Trees Up!
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Originally Posted by Sept5SavedTeen
Your decisions and opinions are to be GOD's and Bible-based if you are truly not your own but bought with a price. I do not believe xmas is a personal conviction, but I believe it is a clear Bible teaching that anyone who had truly considered will come to the same conclusion, and I believe with your upbringing (your father knowing the truth about xmas) you will be judge to a higher standard than someone who celebrated xmas in ignorance. The LORD might beat with many stripes- I do not say this with joy, this is something that saddens and concerns me, and it should do the same for you. I love you with the love of the LORD, to tell you this truth in love.
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I disagree with you, SST. I do not believe I will be held to a "higher standard" about that anymore than I will be held to a higher standard about other erroneous things I was taught. I had a GOOD upbringing, no doubt, but some things were passed on that I don't intend to keep, and haven't since the day I left home.
As far as consulting God's Word--that is exactly what I have done. If I felt the Word forbade me to participate in celebrations or certain days, I would refrain. So far that has not been presented to me in a way I find convincing or even valid.
Do you only celebrate days or holidays that are specifically mentioned in Scripture? Do you celebrate the same days the Jews celebrated? How do you approach which days are special, or do you treat them all the same?
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11-19-2008, 09:57 PM
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Re: We're Not Putting X-Mas Trees Up!
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I really don't... though we could have used a few more toys. |
Exactly, all those Mennonite kids survived without a tree!
However, "tree or no tree-no big deal", well not according to Jer 10.
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11-19-2008, 10:01 PM
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Re: We're Not Putting X-Mas Trees Up!
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I think it can be a big deal to kids. Like Miss Brat said....she regrets that part of her childhood (not having a tree). My kids do also.
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It wasn't just not having a tree. I think I could have handled that okay. It was no gifts, no celebration, nothing. One time in particular that sticks out in my mind when I was in 6th or 7th grade, my class at school drew names for exchanging gifts, and I wasn't allowed to participate--but I still had to go to school the day of the party. I was mortified. To this day, I still don't understand why my parents didn't just keep me home that day. It was also a sore spot with other members of our family who did (and do) celebrate, so it made time with them strained, or we wouldn't visit at all until after Christmas was over. My Dad (who I resemble a LOT in character, btw  ) couldn't resist talking about the pagan holidays, sometimes even just teasing other people about it, but inevitably it always caused a problem. 
*sigh*
I think I sound bitter. LOL!! I'm not. It just wasn't one of the positive parts of my childhood, and I determined that I would make it up to myself when I grew up--and I am!!!!
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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11-19-2008, 10:02 PM
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Re: We're Not Putting X-Mas Trees Up!
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Can someone give me a handbook on all the don'ts?
SO I can reach spiritual utopia!
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What a laugh, it's amazing how some will scream and whine, over dress standards, then turn right around an celebrate a Roman Catholic holiday, and defend it like a junkyard dog. the irony.
In Jesus name
Brother Benincasa
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