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    Sunni Muslims believe Jesus will return in Syria

    When Obama\Clinton start talking about a 'no fly zone' in Syria, they are threatening WW3 with Russia.
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    Sunni Muslims believe Jesus will return in Syria

    Be that as it may, it doesn't easy my anxiety.
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    Sunni Muslims believe Jesus will return in Syria

    Do I sense a nervous lol from you? What is significant regarding the OP is not that I or anyone else here believe it to be true, but that the radical jihadist (backed by the US military) fighting on the ground in Syria believe it is true.
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    Sunni Muslims believe Jesus will return in Syria

    I think you are missing a far great point that over shadows a freedom of religion. That is nuclear war that ends all humanity.
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    Please list ALL biblical aspects of Christmas, if you can.

    I also feel a sense of urgently this year in light of what is taking place in Syria. http://www.christianforums.com/threads/sunni-muslims-believe-jesus-will-return-in-syria.7971668/
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    Sunni Muslims believe Jesus will return in Syria

    What is significant regarding the OP is not that I or anyone else here believe it to be true, but that the radical jihadist (backed by the US military) fighting on the ground in Syria believe it is true.
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    Sunni Muslims believe Jesus will return in Syria

    Sunni Muslims believe Jesus will return in Syria to battle the anti-Christ. There was an Iman that lived in the 9th century. He was from Iran. He wrote the what is know as Sahih Muslim Book 041, Hadith Number 6924. What did he say about the return of Jesus? That He will return to battle...
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    Please list ALL biblical aspects of Christmas, if you can.

    LittleLambofJesus . . . thanks for reposting the '10 reasons why the Bible does not support the party (celebrating) of Christmas' list. I'll reference it extensively over the next couple months.
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    Please list ALL biblical aspects of Christmas, if you can.

    When I was a Catholic, I thought preforming a ritual was the method to salvation. I was never encouraged by my local priest, nor by fellow Catholics to do anything else. Year after year, holiday after holiday. Same questions, same blank expressions, same patronizing glib cryptic answers, same...
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    Please list ALL biblical aspects of Christmas, if you can.

    A vague suggestion that Christmas is Biblical by way of the Gospel of Luke. If a more articulate argument is forth coming, I will examine it. In the mean time there is no Biblical precedent for remembrance of the day of Christ's birth as a day of special religious celebration. This is not to...
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    Please list ALL biblical aspects of Christmas, if you can.

    By 'society' I assume you mean secular. Or as I like to more accurately label, pagan. Christians are suppose to abstain from what the rest of the world does. I'll direct your attention to the 1 Thess. 5. Specifically, 18 in everything give thanks; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus...
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    Please list ALL biblical aspects of Christmas, if you can.

    It took several hundreds of years before theology of christmas took hold. To summarize: I. Christianity began as a Jewish sect. II. Jewish tradition did not celebrate birthdays. III. Early Church Fathers did not recognize the Birth of Jesus as anything significant to 'celebrate'. IV. Pagan...
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    “The Man Who Invented Christmas”

    The prayer book you cited was outlawed by Parliament in 1645. For the sake of argument, demonstrates the non-universal appeal for Christmas. As stated above, Dickens secularized Christmas and the reluctant churches that didn't celebrate, conformed to the new cultural construct.
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    “The Man Who Invented Christmas”

    How Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits By Les Standiford 241 pp. Crown Publishers. $19.95 From the NYT's Book Review: “The Man Who Invented Christmas” is a good title, too catchy to resist, perhaps, as Standiford admits that the public’s...
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    Keeping the CHRIST in Christmas vs the SATURN in Saturnalia.

    It demonstrates that pre-Dickens era Protestants didn't celebrate Christmas at all.
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    Keeping the CHRIST in Christmas vs the SATURN in Saturnalia.

    The Battle for Christmas By Stephen Nissenbaum Chapter 1 New England’s War on Christmas The puritan War on Misrule In New England, for the first two centuries of white settlement most people did not celebrate Christmas. In fact, the holiday was systematically suppressed by Puritans during...
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    Keeping the CHRIST in Christmas vs the SATURN in Saturnalia.

    Scriptural reference of birthdays are not a righteous occasion. Pharaoh and Herod birthdays are recorded in the Bible. In both instances, these pagan rulers liked human sacrifices for their birthday presents. In addition: Quote from: Rick Otto Those are the obvious ones. Now check this...
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    Keeping the CHRIST in Christmas vs the SATURN in Saturnalia.

    In the article “Yuletide,” in The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge (1912) at 497, it explains: The Church of the first two centuries had no thought of celebrating it as a festival. Origen (In Lev. horn., viii. 3, In Matt. xiv. 6 [MPG, xii. 495, xiii. 893-894]), followed by...