I have two challenges:
To Christians who observe Christmas: I challenge you to observe this holiday exactly as the authors of the Gospels documented it, no more, no less.
To secular liberal who observe Christmas: I challenge you to be honest to your secular beliefs and to your rejection that there is a God and that humans need “salvation.” If you are secular, what the hell are you doing (so to speak) by observing the birth of the Savior? Are you nuts? Stop it immediately. Go worship Gaia on the solistice if you must have a party. Do you realize how hypocritical you are being when you put up a tree?
BTW: you know that every human is going to spend eternity somewhere. What secular power or means do secularists hope to transcend the finality of death? If they say that they expect to live beyond death, then by what secular theory and where are the examples and proof?
Merry Christmas!
-JT
I will observe it exactly as the Gospel writers would have, if they had had Fraser firs, LED lights, Christmas carols, church organs, midnight services, Charles Dickens, Charles Wesley, Thomas Nast, Clement Clarke Moore, Hadden Sundblom, Red Ryder rifles with compasses their stocks, egg nog, and rum.
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To Christians who observe Christmas: I challenge you to observe this holiday exactly as the authors of the Gospels documented it, no more, no less.
According to the Calendar in His Word and in His Sky, His birth was commemorated on August 16th, in 2015.
That was the 1st day of the Father’s 6th month.
A day 2000 years ago where the sun clothed the woman and the moon was under her feet (Revelation 12:1)
Today that sign in the Heavens on His birth has moved to the first day of His 7th month, the Feast of Trumpets- that was September 26 in 2014.( a review of a calendar would show judaism was close)
In 2015, because there is an extra month in His lunar-solar calendar (to have His Sun and Moon catch up to each other in His Calendar), that sign (Revelation 12:1) was seen on October 14th. That day represented the first day of His 8th month.
Those 1st days would be called day of the new moon (new Moon Day) in His Word. And quite a story unfolds.
Not sure folks would like that it is found to be nowhere near December 25. That tradition of man blinds believers to Truth that would reflect the Word Made Flesh..
Quite a study that has zero to do with St. Nicholas or Rome’s calendar. And everything to do with His Word and His Creation that points to Him!
December 25 this year will be the 13th day of the Father’s 10th month. It will be a day that commemorates the 5th Day of His Work Week, when He created the creatures of the waters and the winged birds of the heavens. A work day. Not holy. But certainly prophetic.
"O Morning Star, splendour of light eternal and sun of righteousness: Come and enlighten those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death.
The very same Flash Performances which were put on by the Seventy-two Disco Disciples, the Cheering Cherubim and their back-up band the Cha-Cha Chachamim, the Twelve Apostles, their lovely wives the Twelve Epistles:
The famous Hallelujah Food Court Flash Mob. Classic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXh7JR9oKVE
Wonderful - Ode to Joy, from Sabadell, Spain:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87qT5BOl2XU
Air Force Band doing Christmas at the Earth & Space Museum. They're good!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu53onuBOXw
USAF again, from 2014, very nice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vniBBT7nRJg
This one looked like it had some shoppers singing, and it also had a Mary, Joseph, and Jesus baby (live), pretty cool IMHO!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vniBBT7nRJg
150 Students from Thomas Aquinas College at a mall in Ventura, CA):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vniBBT7nRJg
Another amazing one: a song called "Wana Baraka" in Swahili, as spoken in Kenya, as sung in Spain, in praise of Jesus. Name of the group: "Coro de Gospel Good News". Wow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsPDY606Joo
Special thanks to FReepers SES1066 and Seattle Conservative.
And Merry Christmas to you, the Buckwheat!