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You and me both.Oh well, I tried.
They rarely do. I think some folks thieve on contention.You and me both.
Correcting false teaching is important but sometimes, for our own mental and spiritual health, it is better to walk away.
Especially if they won't listen.
Practically everything in the world is of this world. Therefore shun practically everything.To all:
This is what I originally said in my OP, which appears to be fitting at this point.
Love not the things of this world.
In 1 John 2:15-17, it says love not the world, neither the things in this world, if any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in them.
Christmas is technically a thing of this world. It is world recognized holiday.
But if you tell people you stopped celebrating Christmas, expect some hateful comments from people. Why?
"If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you." (John 15:19).
They can celebrate how they want; we can celebrate it how we want.Be ye holy and separate from the world.
Atheists, psychics, and people of many faiths celebrate Christmas. It is the one time of year where everyone gets together to give and whereby some say they are doing it to honor Christ's birth.
No, not everyone is happy at Christmas - not everyone even has a home at Christmas never mind "newly acquired material goods."Everyone is one big happy family celebrating and exchanging gifts and excited over their newly received material goods.
If someone hates Christ, they are not going to be celebrating his birth.Everyone including Christ haters are celebrating Christmas along with Christ lovers.
Yes, it does.But the Bible says be ye holy (1 Peter 1:16), and be ye separate (2 Corinthians 6:17). The Bible says what fellowship does light have with darkness? (2 Corinthians 6:14).
I think your horse is a little too high. Shouldn't you be telling the world to be separate from Christians? Christian's are not responsible for how the world has wrongfully appropriated Christmas and other events of Christianity. I have been a Christian since LBJ was prez. although I had attended Sunday school sporadically since FDR. I have never seen Santa Clause, sleighs, reindeer etc. as part of any service dedicated to the birth of Jesus. Should we also stop observing Resurrection Sunday because the world has misappropriated that day with bunnies, eggs, etc? Your out-of-context proof text above is not referring to the church honoring the day of birth of Jesus or His resurrection.Be ye holy and separate from the world.
Atheists, psychics, and people of many faiths celebrate Christmas. It is the one time of year where everyone gets together to give and whereby some say they are doing it to honor Christ's birth. Everyone is one big happy family celebrating and exchanging gifts and excited over their newly received material goods. Everyone including Christ haters are celebrating Christmas along with Christ lovers. There is even an Atheist Christmas Carol (See here and or here). But the Bible says be ye holy (1 Peter 1:16), and be ye separate (2 Corinthians 6:17). The Bible says what fellowship does light have with darkness? (2 Corinthians 6:14). For it is written,
17 "This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
20 But ye have not so learned Christ;
21 If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:" (Ephesians 4:17-21).
Jesus says he seeks for those who will worship Him in spirit and in truth (John 4:24). Are we worshiping in truth if there are some pagan elements (which are a lie) mixed in with the truth?
It depends on whether Cain was commanded to offer a certain kind of worship, but disobeyed. That is exactly what Adam had done - he KNEW God had told him not to eat the fruit from a tree, but he did it anyway.Was Cain truly worshiping God alone by being obedient to him or was he worshiping God his own way?
God's word prophesies, and the records, the birth of Christ.Many just prefer to do their own thing like Cain instead of following God’s Word alone instead.
No one is attacking you verbally because you don't celebrate Christmas, but for your appalling theology, and your belief that others have to believe as you do.Again, I notice that those who do not celebrate Christ-mass can sometimes be hated or attacked (verbally) in some way.
They are made out to be like enemies all because they want to worship God in spirit and in truth by following His Word alone.
There was no worship of other God's on December 25, nor was there a pagan festival on December 25. One of the emperors, Aurelian, dedicated a temple to Sol Invictus on that date in 274AD, just the dedication, a once off affair, but December 25th held no significance to any of the pagan celebrations. What you have stated above is an oft repeated falsehood, but it has no basis in history. It is totally made up. The length of the Saturnalia festival varied over the years, but it had always ended before December 25th.To all:
While there are biblical clues to Christ's birth date, the date of Christ's birth is nowhere specifically mentioned in the Bible and oddly his birth is coincidentally placed upon the date of the worship of other pagan gods, and a popular pagan festival, instead.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1911 edition, in the article "Natal Day," records that the early Catholic church father, Origen, acknowledged:There was no worship of other God's on December 25, nor was there a pagan festival on December 25. One of the emperors, Aurelian, dedicated a temple to Sol Invictus on that date in 274AD, just the dedication, a once off affair, but December 25th held no significance to any of the pagan celebrations. What you have stated above is an oft repeated falsehood, but it has no basis in history. It is totally made up. The length of the Saturnalia festival varied over the years, but it had always ended before December 25th.
You have been posting a lie. You may have been unaware that what you were posting was false but you can no longer use that as an excuse.
The Church celebrates all the major events in the Gospel. I've already told you that every day of the year is sanctified by feast days and fasting days commemorating the events of the Gospels and the lives of the Saints. The angels glorified God on the day of His birth. The Church does nothing less.The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1911 edition, in the article "Natal Day," records that the early Catholic church father, Origen, acknowledged:
“In the Scriptures, no one is recorded to have kept a feast or held a great banquet on his birthday. It is only sinners like Pharaoh and Herod who make great rejoicings over the day in which they were born into this world.“
December 25th is not the date of the Winter solstice and there are no historical references to devotees of Mithras celebrating on December 25th prior to Christians celebrating the birth of Christ.The New Catholic Encyclopedia, 1967, says:
“According to… most scholars today, the birth of Christ was assigned the date of the winter solstice (December 25 in the Julian calendar, January 6 in the Egyptian), because on this day, as the sun began its return to northern skies, the pagan devotees of Mithra celebrated the dies natalis Solis Invicti(birthday of the Invincible Sun). On Dec. 25, 274, Aurelian had proclaimed the sun-god principal patron of the empire and dedicated a temple to him in the Campus Martius. Christmas originated at a time when the cult of the sun was particularly strong at Rome."
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