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To: InHisService

Giving and sharing the gospel are done all year. But they are done even more at Christmas. Christmas is a highly visible reminder to even those who aren’t in church. It’s a reminder to even non-Christian nations about Christ.

And the pagans sacrificed humans on trees. The cut Christmas tree began in Germany and was a symbol of their break with paganism after a Christian priest cut their pagan tree down.

That kind of legalism where you are afraid of trees because once upon a time a pagan once used a tree in some form or fashion will have you so bound in knots that you’ll be afraid to do anything.

Pagans ate fish, should we avoid fish? Pagans ate meat should we avoid meat? Pagans prayed to their false Gods, should we avoid praying to the true God? Get your eyes off of pagans and back on Christ and maybe you can rediscover the spirit of Christmas.


101 posted on 12/14/2013 6:13:18 PM PST by DannyTN
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102 posted on 12/14/2013 6:20:31 PM PST by BipolarBob
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To: DannyTN

Pagans ate fish, should we avoid fish? Pagans ate meat should we avoid meat? Pagans prayed to their false Gods, should we avoid praying to the true God? Get your eyes off of pagans and back on Christ and maybe you can rediscover the spirit of Christmas.


No, we should not avoid meat, fish or praying to the Lord because pagans did. We should avoid their customs and traditions that we stole from them and wrongly say it’s part of celebrating Christ’s birth. Trees, mistletoe, and all the other trappings have nothing to do with the Savior coming into the world. You can’t have it both ways.


211 posted on 12/15/2013 11:12:23 AM PST by InHisService (Jesus is coming back. Are you ready?)
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