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11-23-2008, 11:44 AM
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Re: We're Not Putting X-Mas Trees Up!
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Originally Posted by Steve Epley
My friend you have the birth of Christ confused with Xmas. I am thankful He was born and preach about His birth often. There would be NO Calvary without the Incarnation. This has ZERO to do with XMAS. Decorating trees has what to do with His birth? Like colored eggs with the resurrection. His birth is NOT less important to us who do not put up Xmas trees maybe it is even more important.
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A Christmas Tree is not the season make.
Having a Christmas tree does make the birth of Christ more important to anyone.
It is the swearing off of the celebration in the season that celebrates the birth of Christ, that lowers the importance of his birth.
Not to you as a Christian but to the world that has commercialized and hyjacked the season.
To those that watch you on your life....
What better testimony than to celebrate and let others know that for you and your house you are one that is real in the season....
That can be done with or without a tree....
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11-23-2008, 12:41 PM
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Re: We're Not Putting X-Mas Trees Up!
If I put up a tree, I would worship it daily. It's a good thing my bishop keeps me from doing that and a number of other things too!
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11-23-2008, 02:04 PM
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Re: We're Not Putting X-Mas Trees Up!
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Originally Posted by Neck
I do not decorate our tree to worhsip the King of Kings.
I decorate it because of the season.
Much like we put out flowers in the spring to denote the season.
We drink apple cider, eat apple pie.
We eat turkey......
Do I worship the turkey, the cider or the apple pie and not Christ...
No.
It does appear to me that many do worship the Apple pie.
But that is another story...
Simply decorating things around you in the season does not denote worship or assimilate to the birth of Christ.
It is simply part of the season....
To answer your question, my Tree or decorations has nothing to do with the birth of Christ....
With all of the hoopla of the season.
The commercialism, the party's etc...
I will not take Christ out of the season because of what others do or have changed it into...
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Neck it was YOU who implied if we didn't put up a tree and string lights we were not remembering His birth.
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11-23-2008, 02:04 PM
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Re: We're Not Putting X-Mas Trees Up!
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Originally Posted by Neck
A Christmas Tree is not the season make.
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Huh?
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Originally Posted by Neck
Having a Christmas tree does make the birth of Christ more important to anyone.
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Are you sure about that?
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Originally Posted by Neck
It is the swearing off of the celebration in the season that celebrates the birth of Christ, that lowers the importance of his birth.
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So using a pagan date for a celebration for which the Bible says nothing somehow makes it more "important"? How exactly does that work?
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Originally Posted by Neck
Not to you as a Christian but to the world that has commercialized and hyjacked the season.
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Uhhmmm...I don’t know what you use for your source material, but the RCC hijacked that pagan "holy day" long before the RCC and its daughters commercialized it.
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Originally Posted by Neck
To those that watch you on your life....
What better testimony than to celebrate and let others know that for you and your house you are one that is real in the season....
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"What better way"? How about by doing what the people of God always did in the Bible; by separating themselves in appearance and in activities from the ways of their surrounding unregenerate world.
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Originally Posted by Neck
That can be done with or without a tree....
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It can also be done on a day other than one set aside for a pagan celebration.
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11-23-2008, 02:14 PM
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Re: We're Not Putting X-Mas Trees Up!
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11-23-2008, 02:17 PM
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Re: We're Not Putting X-Mas Trees Up!
I do enjoy the holiday season although I am aware of alot of the origins of the holiday season.
I will take a present that is green and has a picture of dead president.
You can have my address if you want to send me some.
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11-23-2008, 02:24 PM
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Re: We're Not Putting X-Mas Trees Up!
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Originally Posted by Scott Hutchinson
I do enjoy the holiday season although I am aware of alot of the origins of the holiday season.
I will take a present that is green and has a picture of dead president.
You can have my address if you want to send me some.
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me too bro.
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11-23-2008, 02:28 PM
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Re: We're Not Putting X-Mas Trees Up!
HEY BKSTOKES what about that 500 bucks you owe me? HA HA HA
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11-23-2008, 02:34 PM
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Re: We're Not Putting X-Mas Trees Up!
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11-23-2008, 03:18 PM
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Re: We're Not Putting X-Mas Trees Up!
Just wanted to drop in and say............
Merry
Christmas
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