Christmas Facebook Post
Dec
24
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12/24/2011 11:04 AM
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=375537
In the above wnd.com article, “Should Christians Celebrate Christmas?” a video was posted that tried to prove Christians should celebrate Christmas. It was encouraging to see the number of posts denouncing the lies in the video. We also posted one. Below is the longest post, and quite a good one.
Steven Blackledge: Watched the whole video and as sincere as this man was there is no evidence that Christmas was celebrated by anyone claiming to be of God. Yes, the verses he declared are all true, but it was not Jesus Christ that was born on Dec. 25th.
In fact if you look in Jeremiah chapter 10 this portion declares not to learn the way of the heathen while describing a man cutting down a tree, bringing into his home, decorating it, and then worshipping it.
Christ Jesus was born during the late summer, early autumn timeframe. The reason there were no inn's available for Joseph and Mary to stay in was probably due to the fact that the God's Feast of Tabernacles was being celebrated. The shepherds tending to their flocks at night was also an indication that the weather was still comfortable enough to keep the sheep in the open plain. During December this is not the case.
Not celebrating Christmas does not mean one is a non-believer of God coming in the flesh either to die for our sins..... Even athiests celebrate Christmas! Those of the Muslim faith, Hindu faith ect.....Those whose religion is witchcraft even celebrate this time of the year as the Winter Solstice or Saturnalia. The rebirth of the actual sun....In fact those who are of the the pagan religion celebrated Christmas long before those who had faith in Christ Jesus...... The practice of keeping Christmas amongst Christians began during the 4th century AD when the Emporer Constantine decided to adopt Christianity as being Romes official religion in order to keep his empire together.....What he did wrong was to bring pagan practices into his version of Christianity. One of these practices was Christmas. Constantine still loved to worship Mithras or the sun-god Baal. Part of that worship did entail Christmas or what was called the re-birth of the sun.....Cleverly he replaced pagan names with Christian ones....But you cannot take the pagan out of these days through deception....They are what they are......But time has covered up the truth. And after severe persecution of those who would not accept his version of Christianity not only by Constantine, but by other so called "Christian" sects throughout the centuries, we now have a great many of my brethren, as I once did, celebrating a falsehood.
WND has a series of DVD's entitled "Time is an Ally" on this subject for sale which I myself have not seen. There is also a book by Alexander Hislop titled "The Two Babylons" which goes through this subject in great detail. You can look up on-line as well with the abundance of resources available on this subject.
Sometimes the Truth hurts or even angers some, but it does set us free. But we are called as believers in Christ Jesus to work out, not for, our salvation. Part of that is making sure we are not adhering to the doctrines of men, and interpreting the bible according to our Creators will.
Our Savior left us an example of what to observe before His death on the cross and that is the Passover. Yes, He was God born in the flesh...But He was born to die for the spiritual salvation of mankind. His death and resurrection are to be observed. And this was not just for the Jewish folk, but for all of mankind. Keeping God's holy days contained in Leviticus chapter 23 does not grant us salvation, but reminds us of how important they are concerning the plan our Creator has for all of mankind. Thankfully our God did come in the flesh in order to save us and showed us the great love He has for His creation.
We must remember to worship Him in "Spirit and in Truth." Blessings, and sorry Carl you are wrong about this...Thanks for bringing up scriptures reminding us who our Savior is and what He did for us though.
By the way I am not of the Jehovah Witness sect.....Just a believer in Christ Jesus and the Truth about Him.
19 comment(s) so far...
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I like christmas because I know it makes fools of christians and makes it easy to convert them to Islam. Why else would it be so popular?
By Admar on
12/24/2011 11:28 PM
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I just celebrated the most beautiful christmas morning that I have ever had. I am sure the the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit were present to make it so good. Surely this is proof enough that God wants us celebrating christmas.
By Vallery F on
12/25/2011 10:46 AM
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Vallery,
There is a way that seems right to a man (or woman), but they are the ways of death (Prov. 14:12; 16:25). Adam and Eve also wanted to depart from God's revelation knowledge to experiment ways that seemed and felt good. They partook of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Christmas is a deadly mixture of good and evil, but the evil pollutes and overwhelms it. What Adam and Eve did felt good for the moment, but it proved nothing except that Satan's ways, no matter how good they may look and feel, bring death. God does not support and anoint Christmas day, no matter how much you may want to bring them into this day. The proof of light and truth being in something is the proof of the Word (Isa. 8:20), and not one word of the Bible tells us to keep December 25. In fact, in principle God's Word condemns keeping this day. Mixing pagan customs with the worship of Jesus is a manifestation of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. It is sin, which eventually brings death.
By Robert Scott on
12/25/2011 12:19 PM
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But did not Jesus come to set us free from all incumbances? And give us what is to be new and exciting?
By Vallery on
12/25/2011 3:01 PM
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Vallery,
Jesus came to set us free from sin, and keeping Christmas is, to the great surprise of a deceived, confused majority, sin. Even new and exciting sin leads ultimately to death.
By Robert Scott on
12/25/2011 3:19 PM
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I have not read any comment from God that clearly says Thou shall not keep Christmas. Therefore christmas can be used to celebrate the birth of Jesus.
By Vallery on
12/26/2011 12:57 PM
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Vallery,
If God's commands, when not expressed as clearly as you desire, you not satisfy you or convince you, that means something is wrong. You are not willing to be corrected by the Word of God. Jesus makes clear which days He commands us to observe in Leviticus 23, and He and the early church observed those days. If you can't see that the Christmas tree is one of the meanings expressed in Jeremiah 10, there is something wrong, and it is not something wrong with the Bible, but with your willingness to obey it. Examine yourself to see why you want to follow your feelings and seek justifications for disobeying God. We pray God's blessing of discernment upon you so you may receive the blessings of coming out of this world and the "it feels good, so it must be good" and "everybody's doing it" concepts that make people choose the father of lies rather than the Father of love.
By Robert Scott on
12/26/2011 1:19 PM
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The first commandment is, You shall have no other gods before Me. christmas is loaded with foriegn gods.
By Marilyn on
12/26/2011 2:09 PM
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Marilyn, Are you trying to say that Jesus is a foriegn God? Christmas has been dedicated to Jesus.
By Ella on
12/26/2011 9:38 PM
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Ella, Whatever has not been authorized by God the Father, it is rebellion and it is sin. The bible nowhere says to keep christmas or even Jesus birthday. Those things are only important to those whose seek rightiousness in the flesh and by the flesh. Again those things are sin. Read the word of God and start to prove all things so that you can hold fast to the truth.
By Hunter C on
12/27/2011 10:08 AM
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I suppose that now that christmas is over you will be attacking the next great fun time, Valentines Day. Do you not think that a little love going around is a very good thing when there is a so much trouble and pain in the world.
By Ravee on
12/27/2011 10:35 AM
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Ravee,
A little and a lot of love God's way would be great. But Valentine's day has its origin and its practice today principally in lust, which is not love. And a little sin spreads to become big sin (1 Cor. 5:4-8), so why not face the troubles and pain God's way by keeping His days of love not Satan's days of lust and deception. Why add to the pain with a little compromise with God's Word that will grow bigger?
By Robert Scott on
12/27/2011 10:38 AM
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Is bargin shopping on boxing day part of celebrating christmas? Our family has not kept christmas since the sixties.
By Bev G on
12/27/2011 11:19 PM
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Bev,
No. That is not a part of the pagan celebration, unless you are shopping for Christmas items.
By Robert Scott on
12/28/2011 8:42 AM
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I asked my church to not keep christmas this year but to put the money that they normally spend into a fund to help feed the strave people in northern Kenya and Somalia. To my surprise, I found out that only 1/3 rd considered not keeping christmas. The rest were fearful of what the neighbors would think of them, so they refused to listen to my instructions. That seems like a lot of defiance from people that are supposed to be obey Jesus in love.
By Pastor Arnold on
12/30/2011 6:43 AM
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Now that christmas is over and a new year is about to begin, can anybody show me where the joy and the peace is? If christmas was all that good and with everybody celebrating it, where is the rewards for keeping it?
By Carl on
12/31/2011 11:54 PM
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Carl, You cannot get a long term good out of anything that God has not blessed. The New Year is the time whenthe pain of the wrong choice set in. Therefore pain, debt and discomfort are the reward for celebrating Satan`s day of creation.
By Tamara on
1/2/2012 10:04 AM
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Tamara, is it only the pain of the wrong choice of celebrating Satan's day of creation or the pain of any wrong choice a person has been making sets in at this time?
By Alanna on
1/2/2012 2:58 PM
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I watched the first part of the video "Should Christians Celebrate Christmas?" I could not get past the very beginning where he says that the word Christmas has something to do with Jesus. The word "mass" is strictly a Catholic word and it means the celebration of the death of a victim. Jesus was not a victim and Jesus was not Catholic. Jesus didn't celebrate his own birth and we are to do what he did and didn't do.
By Charlene B. on
1/5/2012 9:15 AM
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