Posted on 12/21/2016 8:03:51 AM PST by DouglasKC
Get off your high horse and do it for the kids.
Get off your high horse and do it for the kids.
I bet you don’t observe Easter as holy either?
I get where your coming from, though. I do.
IMO EVERY Sunday is Easter Sunday. Where Christians come together - observe the LORDS Supper - and celebrate the fact we serve a risen Savior.
The Entire world has chosen a consensus date to celebrate the divine birth of the man who saved us all by sacrificing himself in a painful, miserable way. He showed us all that through his single sacrifice we have nothing to fear, we have everything to be thankful for, and that we are free in the free-est way.
The actual holiday is not the birth of Jesus. It’s not his birthday. The church declared this day to be his to take the wind out of the sails of the Pagani and the Heathens who celebrated Yule, Solstice, or some other tribal harvest / sacrifice holiday.
In my house we know it’s not his actual birthday. We just know this is the day we celebrate Him and his, and what he gave us all to enjoy forever.
Pass on profane old wives fables like scripture says not to do??
I do not....Leviticus 23 has God's days listed.
Bah, humbug to you, too!
CC
I don't think it worked. God said specifically:
Deu 12:29 "When the LORD your God cuts off from before you the nations which you go to dispossess, and you displace them and dwell in their land,
Deu 12:30 take heed to yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods? I also will do likewise.'
Deu 12:31 You shall not worship the LORD your God in that way; for every abomination to the LORD which He hates they have done to their gods; for they burn even their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.
Deu 12:32 "Whatever I command you, be careful to observe it; you shall not add to it nor take away from it.
And so what have we done? Taken every pagan custom, myth and observation of non-Christian societies and polluted our worship of the Lord...exactly what he said not to do.
No Christmas. No Easter. I get that.
So. What Holy Days DO you observe? In the New Testament we see Jesus and his disciples observing...
The Feast of The Tabernacles.
The Day of Atonement.
Pentecost.
Feasts of Trumpets.
Etc.
You DO celebrate these then, right?
Romans 14:5New International Version (NIV)
5 One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind.
Definition of humbug: something designed to deceive and mislead.
Christmas was designed to deceive and mislead people about what days God has made holy.
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Exactly...
This verse has nothing to do with holy days. The greek text doesn't mention "holy" or "sacred". In context this verse is referring to eating practices. It's most likely referring to a problem in the early church where clean animals had been sacrificed in pagan worship and later sold in the meat market. The issue as that early Christians were conflicted on whether they could eat meat that had been sacrificed to idols. Some became vegetarians. The "days" were likely those days that pagans sacrificed and put their meat out in the market.
If they did all these things it was only a couple of months after they had their Halloween party. :-)
Prov. 14:12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
9 To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable:
10 “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
11 The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.
12 I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’
13 “But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’
14 “I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”
Obviously we disagree on this. Have a nice day. I’d wish you Merry Christmas, but it would just piss you off.
CC
I love that parable. However I don’t think I’m more righteous for observing what God said to do in the bible. I’m humbled that Christ wrote what he wrote and that he allows a sinner like me to obey him.
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