I think Christmas is a great time of year. For a few weeks each year, the coming of the Savior of this world is celebrated.
Christmas songs speak of the oneness of God, the plan of salvation, and the coming Kingdom of God, when the earth will be filled with His glory and righteousness amongst other things. At no other time of year is the coming and life of Christ so celebrated.
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there is nothing christian about this mess they call christmas.. #1-its not JESUS BIRTHDAY hardly anyone with any knowledge of the subject think it is just goes along with it /..#2-if it is his birthday why is evevrybody getting present and why do they say santa brings them instead of angels??
i tell ya why its paganism ,just go to the library its in the encyclopedia , christmas rightly said is christ/mas.. a catholic holiday trying to get the pagans of the day to worship JESUS ..noble idea but they brought along with it all the pagans customs ... tree,presents ,light were added later. the pagans were worshiping the sungod. not JESUS. it was outlawed in the u.s. by christians in 1800;s but they never stopped giving gifts so all of it came back . nothing wrong with giving gift heck i like them .. just not at a pagan time we give gifts at thanksgiving.
SO WHY DO I WANT TO BE A CHRISTAIN AND DO THE WAYS OF THE HEATHERN READ JEREMIAH 10 ..i dont and wont and never have since i was married in 1977.raised 3 kids that seem to turn out ok lol even tho they never got a christmas present from me .
Last edited by pastorrick1959; 12-01-2009 at 06:55 AM.
All anybody has to do to see the "Christmas spirit" in action is to have been at walmart last friday at 5:00 AM. I know at our local one there were people fighting over items, a friend of mine was there to get a gift for his girlfriend's kid, turned his back on his cart for an instant only to turn back and find someone had stolen it right out his cart.
Shows what people really are... a pack of selfish greedy animals. Christmas spirit. right. Personally I have no use for the day. I'll hang with family and eat ham, but that is about it.
Basically I see the day as a drunken revel for the world, and an opportunity for greedy marketers to reach into your wallet and take what little you have left after the bills are done and to make sure you have even more bills for next year.
Paganistic roots aside...
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Last edited by John Atkinson; 12-01-2009 at 07:09 AM.
And the other thing that really gets me is the number of Apostolic churches that will close their doors on a church day if xmass happens to fall on it. That is just plain shameful.
I thank God that our church's policy on it has always been, if family wants to spend time with us on xmass, they can come and do it at church.
You know... I don't celebrate christmas and I don't judge those who do. But, no matter where one stands on the issue, I wonder how God views it when one brother finds another brothers convictions comical?
I think God probably shakes his head over His people complaining about a holiday that in 2010 is pretty universally hailed as a celebration of said God's birth. LOL.
I think God probably shakes his head over His people complaining about a holiday that in 2010 is pretty universally hailed as a celebration of said God's birth. LOL.
God was born?
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