Xmas

[sunshineforJesus]

I so agree.

 

[Krissy Cakes]

I love Christmas! But come on! Ugh! I HATE when people say x-mas!

I makes me so mad! Gosh!

 

[JM]

A cultural X-Mas Song:

Have yourself a merry little x-mas
Let your heart be light
Next year all our troubles will be
Out of sight (really?)

Have yourself a merry little x-mas
Make the yule-tide gay
Next year all our troubles will be
Miles away (huh?)

Once again as in olden days
Happy golden days of yore (sorry, no such thing)
Faithful friends who are dear to us
Will be near to us once more

Someday soon, we all will be together
If the fates allow (fates as in Pagan fates?)
Until then, well have to muddle through somehow
So have yourself a merry little x-mas now!

 

[abacabb3]

I like X-Mas as a worldly sort of person. I like the lights, the CHristmas cheer, being able to say something about Jesus and have it be socially acceptable. I don't find the holiday religious and I dislike Satan Claus.

 

[JM]

I don't find the holiday religious...

That's where I'm at. I have unbelieving family that make a stink about "Keeping Christ in Christmas" but they laugh at me when I talk about Christ.

 

[gord44]

Since becoming less of a church goer my like of Xmas has increased as I make it about food and booze. When I was a faithful church goer, I despised the holiday and found it quite unbiblical. My nickname around my house and at work was Scrooge.

 

[BryanW92]

That's where I'm at. I have unbelieving family that make a stink about "Keeping Christ in Christmas" but they laugh at me when I talk about Christ.

I know what you mean. My extended family spends a whole month on Christmas without ever mentioning Christ, except as Baby Jesus. I usually go to church twice on Christmas Eve, so I can't come join in the festivities and they lay the guilt trip on me, "Aw come on. I thought you were the big Christian and now you're skipping Christmas."

 

[gord44]

I know what you mean. My extended family spends a whole month on Christmas without ever mentioning Christ, except as Baby Jesus. I usually go to church twice on Christmas Eve, so I can't come join in the festivities and they lay the guilt trip on me, "Aw come on. I thought you were the big Christian and now you're skipping Christmas."

That sounds maddening. :o

 

[GQ Chris]

I hate this secularized holiday.

 

[A New Dawn]

I hate this secularized holiday.

This.

 

[twin1954]

I love Christmas! But come on! Ugh! I HATE when people say x-mas!

I makes me so mad! Gosh!

I want to thank you and your husband for your service. He isn't the only one serving and going through the hardship of service to our country. The family of a military man serves as much as He does. May our glorious God put His hand of mercy on you and your whole family.

 

[JM]

I hate this secularized holiday.

It was a pagan holiday before it was a "Christian" holiday...it's just being reclaimed.

 

[gord44]

I read a book a few years back by a Puritan fellow. Called Bahumbug or something. He made a good case for why christians should embrace 'happy holiday' instead of 'merry Christmas'.

 

[A New Dawn]

I read a book a few years back by a Puritan fellow. Called Bahumbug or something. He made a good case for why christians should embrace 'happy holiday' instead of 'merry Christmas'.

What was it?

 

[gord44]

I'll take a look for the title and get back to you.

 

[gord44]

It's called Bah Humbug: How Christians Should Think About the Christmas Holiday by C Matthew McMahon.

 

[JM]

This is the first year in recorded history that my wife wants to put up the Asherah, I mean "Christ's Mass" tree early.

Here's a pic from a few years ago of us setting up the pole, I mean tree.

(#sarcasm)

 

[A New Dawn]

This is the first year in recorded history that my wife wants to put up the Asherah, I mean "Christ's Mass" tree early.

(#sarcasm)

You know, I don't get why people make such a big deal about claiming days that were used by pagans to worship other gods and making them into holy days for Christ. It was used as a means to convert the pagans. The secularness of Christmas in today's world aside, what is wrong with it? If one has the intent of worship Christ and not Asherah, what is the problem? The Jews were commanded to create days of celebration to remember, this is not too far of a step removed from that.

 

[JM]

To each their own according to their conscience…as long as that conscience is immersed and informed by scripture. If you want to celebrate Christmas go for it. I would ask that you accord me and other Christians the same freedom to not observe it.

The church I attend really digs Christmas and more than once fellow parishioners have looked down their noses at my family for not making a big deal about “Keeping Christ in Christmas.” I has nodding off during last Lord’s Day service (insomnia had me up until 5:30am Sunday morning) but I think the Pastor mentioned selling signs for your lawn that read “Keep Christ in Christmas.” No biggie. If that’s what you want to do go for it just don’t be pretentious with others who disagree.

We keep Christmas as a secular holiday, a day off to spend with each other and family. The government allows us that freedom and forces employers to give us that day off so I’ll take it and use it to spend with family.

The London Baptist Confession, 1689 chap.22 tells us that we Christians should be free from cultural holidays, holy days, etc. and worship according to the word of God alone. “…the acceptable way of worshipping the true God, is instituted by himself, and so limited by his own revealed will, that he may not be worshipped according to the imagination and devices of men, nor the suggestions of Satan, under any visible representations, or any other way not prescribed in the Holy Scriptures.”

I could be wrong, so could the confession…but I just do not see the need to Keep Christ in Halloween or Christmas. God has changed my mind in the past...maybe again on this issue.

Yours in the Lord,

jm

 

[abacabb3]

I'm with JM on this one, though I may not be a Christmas iconoclast. I don't find the XMas tree offensive to my sensibilities, nor Apsaras from my wife's country, but Christian religious imagery I find to by idolatry and difficult to look at without being drawn to it in an inappropriate way in which I feel a sense of worship. The tree does not invoke that in me.