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“The Sunday Morning Bray”, by Bray!

And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways; To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins, Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us, Luke 1:76-78 KJV

Christmas is such an amazing time of the year. For the Christian this is the most holy of all holy days which gives them hope for the future as well as embracing their pasts. It brings joy and peace as they celebrate the greatest gift man has ever received. What makes Christmas so special for Christians is that it encapsulates the entire faith of a believer. It is the most impossible story ever told and has withstood the worldâ€™s scrutiny for 2000 years.

For a Christian they have to believe without a doubt there is a God who created the world in an organized way with science revealing God rather than dispel him. They also need to believe God is perfection and has perfect love for his creation and would provide a path to eternal relationship with him rather than struggling to reach him. The ways of God are not the ways of man and man can never cross that divide.

The proof of his love and man’s faith, God provided the way with the most unlikely path for man to follow, he sent his son through a virgin birth. This is the ultimate test for mankind to believe that a woman could conceive a child without the seed of a man. It defies logic and common sense, although it is a perfect symbol of Christ as he was described throughout the Old Testament. This not only tests God’s love of man, but man’s ability to have enough faith in his perfect gift to believe and follow him. This is what brings hope and joy to the entire Christian world.

Christmas and Christ stands in contrast to the rest of the cult worship. How empty can your life be when you have to earn your way into heaven or whichever New Age equivalent the rest of the world has to attain. Everyone worships some god even if they deny it or profess to not believe in gods or religion, their mind requires a worship of a god and it only is a matter of which they choose.

The emptiest of Godless worship is atheism or agnosticism which says you are so sure of yourself there is no God you will profess to everyone you know he does not exist. They believe they are the top of the evolutionary chain and the only thing higher is a group of men. The most fundamental become incensed others believe in God and feel they are sent to the earth from their primordial soup to ruin Christmas for everyone who believes in Christ.

Their faith is tenfold what a Christian believes. They have to believe in a basically unproven belief that man came from random selection and even though there is no proof of one transitional species they believe there were billions of transitional species which eventually transitioned into man.

This makes the virgin birth elementary since there would have to be billions of virgin births before reproductive organs evolved for evolution to occur. Then after believing all of that your highest goal is to attain the height of good person by whatever standard you choose. Atheism is a truly empty faith which tries to hold people down to their emptiness leading to dust.

Then you have the man made religions like Islam, Scientology, Environmentalism, Marxism and Middle Eastern worships. These are all earth or star/moon worship and are all written by man without the one true God or his Son, Jesus. They force you to follow a set of tenets to make the church larger and by doing these things you can earn your way to heaven. In addition like all man made religions they have different levels of heaven so the more you do the higher you get.

Islam is the most brutal of these cults since the more fundamental you become the more you want to kill non-believers. This cult was written by a sadistic murderer who made Hitler into a choirboy. He believed you could conquer the world with the sword using a vast army of mass killers to force his religion by raping and pillaging. Where is the hope or joy in this religion as well as all of the religions that leave out the love of the Father? There is no hope, only a daily and yearly effort to reach the next level of accomplishment without ever reaching God.

The difference between all of these empty cults and Christianity is mercy and grace. This is what makes Christmas special and different than any other faith. God is perfect and man is evil so no matter how hard we try to reach God all we can offer are different levels of evil. Man has been corrupted and we see that corruption every day around the world with every evil imaginable. This is all we have to offer God and it will continually fall short.

God loves man perfectly so he fixed our imperfect gifts by sending his son as a baby through a perfect birth and he lived his life as man without sin. This made him a man who could reach God since he was without sin through a virgin birth. He was man and God in one making him the prefect sacrifice for man as was told in the Old Testament. This gave man a path to God through the blood of Jesus Christ. This is nothing man did or can do; it was everything God did for man.

This is what we celebrate, Jesus and the perfect gift given by the grace of God. There is nothing man did or can do to reach God or perfection. The only thing he can do is believe that God is perfection and only he could provide the perfect gift for man to reach him and did.

This gives Christians hope that they will be with him in spite of our evil he would love man so much they would be with him for eternity. This makes sense and brings joy and hope for all mankind if they will humble themselves to believe in this impossible story and ask for his Salvation. This is what is meant by Merry Christmas and why Christians love this holiday, since God gave man a way out of evil and will bring them into his perfection through a moment in time in Bethlehem which unites us all.

Merry Christmas

Note: The above opinion is not necessarily my own, but FReeper Bray’s. If you wish to discuss this, please ping Bray.