“The literal simplest meaning of “Christmas” = Christ as the “Sent One.”” A nonsense statement…. the term Christmas comes from a combining of Christ and mass….not Chris is the sent one but Christ’s mass (i.e. the celebration of his death because that is what a mass is)From a Bible church...can find other sources if you wish:
We have entered into the Christmas Holiday season. In light of this, I think it is important for us to recognize some things. One is concerning the word "Christmas." We get the word Christmas from two Latin words: Christus, and missa. Putting these two words together, we get the compound word, Christ-mas. Christmas, like all compound words, has a meaning that the particles explain. It literally means "Christ is sent." This morning I want us to prepare our hearts for a sermon that has to do with the great event of the sending of Christ. The theme is, God's Christmas Plan: Christ is Sent
God's Christmas Plan: Christ is Sent
And Missa est is recognized by Catholics as "go/sent":
QUESTION: WHAT DOES “ITE, MISSA EST” REALLY MEAN?
“Ite, Missa est” is the Latin concluding prayer of the Catholic Mass. Non-Catholics listen up: the Mass is highest form of worship for Catholics. It concludes with a brief dialogue between the priest and the congregation. Here’s how it goes in Latin: Priest: Dominus vobiscum [The Lord be with you] People: Et cum spiritu tuo. [And with your spirit.] Priest: Ite, missa est. People: Deo gratias. [Thanks be to God] Normally translated today as “Go, the Mass is ended,” “Ite, missa est” literally means “Go, it has been sent.”
From this phrase we get the word “Mass” as well as the word “missal,” which is the name for the book containing the prayers of the Mass.
Sorry, Nifster, even the Catholics here say that "mass" comes from the Latin Missa...
I don’t give a rat’s behind what the Mormon’s chose to worship or do because that is not my faith. I do care deeply about the overall decline of my church and it’s inability to find a way to stay true to the original teachings of the Nazarene.
I think your FIRST sentence here is an example of the SECOND.
As Christians we are told to not put up with false teachings.
THAT is what is wrong with today's 'church'. Not just Mormonism - a really BIG 'false teaching', but the myriad little things that are permeating 'Christianity' today.
You MUST start caring about the future of the rodent's posterior region; as it's on it's way to
HELL
if it is not turned around!!
Quit just 'caring' and start DOING something about it.
Acts 17:18-19
18. A group of Epicurean and Stoic philosophers began to dispute with him. Some of them asked, "What is this babbler trying to say?" Others remarked, "He seems to be advocating foreign gods." They said this because Paul was preaching the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.
19. Then they took him and brought him to a meeting of the Areopagus, where they said to him, "May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?
Acts 18:11
So Paul stayed for a year and a half, teaching them the word of God.
Romans 15:4
For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
Romans 16:17
I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them.
1 Corinthians 4:17
For this reason I am sending to you Timothy, my son whom I love, who is faithful in the Lord. He will remind you of my way of life in Christ Jesus, which agrees with what I teach everywhere in every church.
1 Corinthians 11:2
2. I praise you for remembering me in everything and for holding to the teachings, just as I passed them on to you.
Ephesians 4:14-15
14. Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming.
15. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ.
2 Thessalonians 2:15
So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the teachings we passed on to you, whether by word of mouth or by letter.
2 Thessalonians 3:6
In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we command you, brothers, to keep away from every brother who is idle and does not live according to the teaching you received from us.
1 Timothy 1:3-4
3. As I urged you when I went into Macedonia, stay there in Ephesus so that you may command certain men not to teach false doctrines any longer
4. nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies. These promote controversies rather than God's work--which is by faith.
1 Timothy 1:7
They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not know what they are talking about or what they so confidently affirm.
1 Timothy 2:7
And for this purpose I was appointed a herald and an apostle--I am telling the truth, I am not lying--and a teacher of the true faith to the Gentiles.
1 Timothy 4:1-2
1. The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons.
2. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.
1 Timothy 4:6
If you point these things out to the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, brought up in the truths of the faith and of the good teaching that you have followed.
1 Timothy 4:11
Command and teach these things.
1 Timothy 6:3-5
3. If anyone teaches false doctrines and does not agree to the sound instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly teaching,
4. he is conceited and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions
5. and constant friction between men of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain.
2 Timothy 1:13
What you heard from me, keep as the pattern of sound teaching, with faith and love in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 2:15-17
15. Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.
16. Avoid godless chatter, because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly.
17. Their teaching will spread like gangrene.
2 Timothy 3:16-17
16. All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,
17. so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
2 Timothy 4:3-4
3. For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.
4. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
Titus 1:11
They must be silenced, because they are ruining whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach--and that for the sake of dishonest gain.
Titus 2:1
You must teach what is in accord with sound doctrine.
Titus 2:15
These, then, are the things you should teach. Encourage and rebuke with all authority. Do not let anyone despise you.
Hebrews 13:9
Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings.
2 Peter 2:1-3
1. But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves.
2. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
3. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
2 John 1:10
If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take him into your house or welcome him.