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Old 11-20-2008, 02:54 PM
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Re: We're Not Putting X-Mas Trees Up!

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Why did you say that? What made you say that? Did you think that was funny? Did the Holy Ghost cause you to say that?
If EB meant Evang. Benincasa, he probably said that as a sweet thing to say to me. If that is you in the picture there with your family I am old enough to be your Gramma.
You seem like a nice man EvangBenicassa. I have reading your posts for a few days now before getting enough courage and wisdom to log onto this discussion site.
You seem to be one of the smartest posters here and I feel in my soul you and I are of kindred spirits. True holiness folks.
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Old 11-20-2008, 02:56 PM
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More Paranoia. Last yr at a certain conference, one of the 'speakers' spent 45 minutes preaching against patterns on nylons.
I could Amen a good sermon like that. To much flesh ashowin these days and worldly patterned nylons can't not be after God's true heart.
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Old 11-20-2008, 02:56 PM
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Re: We're Not Putting X-Mas Trees Up!

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Rethink this.....I bet you've gotten down on your knees to reach in the back to get a present or if you have a live tree to put water in the holder.
You got me there....
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Old 11-20-2008, 02:58 PM
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Re: We're Not Putting X-Mas Trees Up!

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Hold on, did you read the document that you gave me looking for the truth, or attempting to justify a belief? Because what you gave me doesn't prove that Jesus was born on Dec 25th. The writer does smack the Eastern Orthodox in the chops over their differences on the dates of Easter.

True study does not mean reading a Catholic professor's article and walk away a believer. I guess he can also show you infant baptism.

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Brother Beninca, the point isn't that Jesus was born on December 25th. lol We don't know with certainty when Christ was born. The point is that the date was arrived at through a combination of ancient Christian and Jewish traditions....not paganism.
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Old 11-20-2008, 03:01 PM
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Here you go getting upset. Why don't you answer my questions?
Come on, don't be that way Neck, you had already admitted in this thread that there was no mandate to celebrate the xmas. So, why feel so blue?

You can celebrate Jesus everyday!

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Including December 25th.
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Old 11-20-2008, 03:03 PM
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That was uncalled for!
Sorry Berk...just trying for a little humor here. Forgive me?
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Old 11-20-2008, 03:04 PM
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Brother Beninca, the point isn't that Jesus was born on December 25th. lol We don't know with certainty when Christ was born. The point is that the date was arrived at through a combination of ancient Christian and Jewish traditions....not paganism.
LOl, you must of missed my posts where I showed that the writer of the article never proved that the Dec 25th date was conclusively not pagan.
Antipas, the writer gives us his speculation and builds his case later on in the article. He is very brief about the Roman date and Roman religion. Still he never proves that there wasn't any pagans who held Dec 25th as their date.
Go back and re-read it.

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Old 11-20-2008, 03:06 PM
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Including December 25th.
Do you celebrate Christ everyday as you do on Dec 25th?

Yet, they call my group legalists, oh the irony.
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There is no way Christ could have been born Dec 25 or thereabout. The shepherds were outside watching their flocks at night. They cannot do that in the middle east at that time of year.
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Old 11-20-2008, 03:09 PM
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Sorry Berk...just trying for a little humor here. Forgive me?
Wow, that must be the Churchian love coming through. You didn't say anything about his MeMaw, so why would he get the apology?

Whatever.

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