Posted on 11/27/2009 7:01:22 PM PST by paltz
But the Greek letter Chi looks like X, and the Greek letter Rho looks like P. So the first two letters of Christ would be XP.
The history of Xmas in America comes more from greed then as an abbreviation of Christmas. It fit better on advertisements then the longer word “Christmas”.
I figure it would also be a shorter way of saying it. I imagine some children when first starting to write would rather write that than spell it out fully. Can’t exactly yell at a 7 year old for that.
Weird, at the link it looks like a “p” but when I copy and paste it comes out as “r or R”.
The X doesn’t bother me. It’s the use of the word “holiday” as a substitute for “Christmas” that torks me off. I scream at most commercials this time of year.
I don’t like it either.
It’s all part of the master plan to turn the US into a Godless communist gulag. Zimbabwe here we come.
“Therefore, the only people who have a right to be cheesed about Christ-Mass being modified are the Catholics, who had their Mass warped into a Protestant holiday, the European pagans, who had their retarded winter rituals warped into a Catholic holiday, and Jesus Christ, who never initiated any of it and would rather you obey Him instead of fighting over a day he never commanded you to lionize.”
Ah! A breath of fresh air at a time of year stifled with superstition!
“You are one of many false dichotomists.”
No. The falsity is in the date of Christ’s birth. The Feast of Tabernacles foretold the incarnation, God Himself moving into a human body. He was born in late September or early October. The shepherds aren’t out in the fields in December.
December 25th is the pagan feast of the unconquered sun from Babylon and the Roman Saturnalia, celebrated by the exchanging of gifts and much drinking..
No, it’s not pseudo-intellectual junk. There are still people who read the NT in Greek and the Septuagint OT - which is the version Christ himself quotes on numerous occasions.
I'm no Greek scholar, I probably know less about the greek alphabet than most frat boys; and about the only thing I actually know how to say in Greek is "Thank You" (afgaristo). However, as a student of the Gospel (especially since much of the early church spoke Greek and Paul wrote most of his epistles in Greek), a rudimentary understanding of how the greek culture influenced Christianity is a good thing.
So, the first two letters of Christ in Greek are “XP”. Windows operating system before Vista was “XP” and now Vista is being replaced by Windows 7, which is the number of perfection and completeness in Scriptural symbology. Hmmm, could Bill Gates be secretly trying to convert the whole world to Christianity?
(I don’t need a sarcasm tag, do I?)
Or, Bill Gates thinks he is god!
You too misidentify the correct issues.
“You too misidentify the correct issues.”
Which are - - - - - ?
Let’s start with what they aren’t, idem est: substantially strawman matters.
Strawman matters, like worshipping the wrong God? Saturn?
False accusations that Christians are doing that.
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