People constantly over-analyze these things-especially Christmas. The article sounds like someone who can’t afford fancy gifts and wants to justify not buying presents because the “Holy Spirit” told her to do it. Sorry, but if people think Christmas is about giving gifts (even expensive ones), then they completely miss the point.
I for one love Christmas. I love the lights, the decorations, the cookies. I love going to church and singing the carols that we don’t get to sing through the year. I have my USB Christmas tree up at work and proudly display my Santa on the mantle (we always told my son that we pretend there’s a Santa Claus). The snowman collection is out and the nativity is in the breakfast area where we see it at every meal. I don’t need or want presents. I’d be happy with a bit of fruit cake on Christmas day. But I told my family that if they feel the need to get me something, they can get me one of those plastic drawer containers from Wal-Mart or Target for $7 bucks. I love those things.
And what tweeks every atheist’s nose and hand-wringing Christian is that Christmas does come round-year after year after year. And every year we see articles like this saying why we shouldn’t have Christmas. I say bah humbug. It’s really man that doesn’t want it. But it’s God that ordained it. So let “Joy to the World” play once more. I never grow tired of it.
You're the first person I know of who actually LIKES the stuff.
Yeah, I've tried it.
As Snoopy would say.... *Blech!!!*
That may be your interpretation, by which attribution of motive you impugn her argument, in supporting your position due to motive (which is not to be impugned) and thus proudly displaying your Santa on the mantle.
But that is certainly not my motive, and i think my position is far more consistent with NT Christianity sola scriptura than Christianizing distinctively pagan holydays, and basically making observing the yearly observance of Rome mandatory.
Well said.
For the first time I put some thought into the argument that celebrating Christmas is not mentioned in Scripture and therefore we should not celebrate.
As I showed on that I asked myself about the feasts and festivals that were required in the Old Testament. The question is, what was the purpose of these events. Simply put, they all point to the Messiah. Every one of them.
So now that Jesus has come I see Christmas as a these feasts rolled up into one big feast.
People, being the sinner’s that they are, will corrupt any and everything God has given us. Why are we suprized that Christmas has been corrupted? It is our job to do the right things with our gifts, wether creation, our work or our private lives, not to hide them under a basket.
The article sounds like someone who can’t afford fancy gifts and wants to justify not buying presents because the “Holy Spirit” told her to do it. Sorry, but if people think Christmas is about giving gifts (even expensive ones), then they completely miss the point.
Could you show the scripture that says that?