Posted on 12/19/2017 5:46:35 PM PST by Kaslin
I taped a candy cane to my door.
Upside down, oriented as a “J”.
Diversity is king...
Unless the queen is Christian.
Wonderful post Kaslin... what a loving person.
We all killed Him.
However we are free to recieve Him. Also Pilate washed his hands and just wanted him flogged. The Jews, back by the crowd, wanted Him dead. Pilate was already on notice due to Jewish insurrections and said Ok.
Pilate trolled the Jews however by ordering that “Jesus Nazarenus Rex Judaeorum”/INRI by placed above His head. Also who cried out for Barabbas? That sure as heck did not make the Roman authorities very happy, but again, Pilate was on notice.
I must have missed the part where he apologized to the kind, sweet Woman who took her time to acknowledge others.
What a putz.
[[Yeah, but Hanukkah was not a serious Jewish holiday until Jews of the West needed something in December to compete with Christmas. Prior to the post WW2 west, Hanukkah was basically unknown.]]
Hanukkah means dedication . You might think it was unknown but Jesus knew about it . It’s actually mentioned in the New Testament .
(John 10:22) And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter.
(John 10:23) And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon’s porch.
Such an act is one that inseparably mingles humility and grace . . .
Yeah, I pretty much just wish everyone Merry Christmas unless I know the people I’m speaking to to be Jewish or Muslim or they’re otherwise wearing garb or symbols of those religions. Then they get a Happy Holidays or maybe both if I’m not sure. There’s a difference between being anti-PC and being a jerk.
I agree, and do the same. I’ve never had anybody act offended when I’ve said, ‘Merry Christmas’; but I think we should exercise thoughtfulness when we are aware that someone is of another faith.
Like McGavin999, I remember my Jewish friends on the holidays of their faith; and they remember me on those of mine. Everyone appreciates it, and nobody is offended.
This is a picture of what God faces daily — people who trample His grace.
I personally found it easy as an unbeliever to hoot at the commercialization of Christmas, and yet there seemed to be a distinct undertone of something better in it.
Gentile Christians, especially, could stand to brush up on some details of soteriology. Jesus had been saving people well before they understood, on earth, who their Savior was.
God “took a risk” (in scare quotes since He always knows what He is doing) in introducing the Son to the world at all. This detail of salvation could have remained the way it always had been, had God wished it. The revelation of Jesus as a distinct person in history, even at all the risks of it being misunderstood, was important. It made explicit our relationship to the love that always exists in God, which is why it came with another revelation, that of a triune God.
And as for commercialization? I think even most advertisers know when it’s overdone, and refrain at that point. The fault is more that of shallow consumers. Once the divine story really comes home to the heart, one might wish that the marketplace glittered with Christmas regalia all year long.
Any apology is owed not to her, but to God.
[Any apology is owed not to her, but to God.]
And God is patient. Oy vey is He patient.
The line of Jewish traditional religious following that we see today is the legacy of the line that said no to Jesus. We Christians shouldn’t expect it to have a straight story and be ready to say “Aha! the Savior.” We get mad at modern “fake news” because we know so many people swallow it without thinking.
This fellow is doing something dangerous. He’s starting to think. Christ may arrive at the heart well before He arrives at the head.
And well I have been there and done that.
Modern Jewish theology is a difficult thing for Christians to understand. Even I didn’t really understand it. The unity of God is taken as a arithmetic singleness of person too, but people never had the right to make that assertion a priori. The secret things belong unto the Lord God. But among other things it makes the difference between a God who “can love” and a God who “is love.”
Perceived loyalty to God calls, and calls loudly. Even erroneous responses to that should be treated with respect. Conduct far worse than throwing away a card will yet meet with mercy if it is due to “ignorance and unbelief.”
Was he a jerk? If so, humanity itself has been jerks before God.
I have to disagree - I think it was thoughtless. Granted, it seems to have been so in a sort of benign, ‘ditzy’ way, instead of a deliberately arrogant one.
Just like today.
But yet the proof is in the pudding.
I would venture that it looks a lot like Jesus has found him.
Is there aught in his heart that could be moved unto everlasting acceptance by any amount of grace? If so, that grace will be furnished. Along with the trials that are necessary to highlight the need and use of that grace.
Some people just slam the door shut to God permanently, as though it were all about themselves and always would be. Neither God nor the devil will significantly trouble those persons on earth.
[Some people just slam the door shut to God permanently, as though it were all about themselves and always would be.]
Hence the biblical reference to an “unforgivable sin.” To the most holy One on earth, a person choosing to commit this sin will act with unmixed revulsion. We saw an example of this when religious experts were automatically blaming Jesus’ healing miracles on the devil, without any apparent attempt to delve into the question.
If this Jew is wearing a kippah, it is probable that he had a proper Jewish education and therefore will not be vulnerable to the proselytizing patter that Messyonic cult members use to try and convince Jews that J.C. can be part of their life AND they can still be a Jew. The 2 concepts are utterly mutually exclusive. Jews do not have any part of J.C. in their life. It's not part of our religion. Messyonics are a well known CULT, trying to pass themselves off as Jews. In fact, the vast majority of them are non-Jews and their efforts are directed toward trying to convince poorly educated Jews that J.C. is part of Judaism. They use Torah quotes taken out of context, Jewish prayerbooks modified to contain references to the N.T., Hebrew words in regular conversations and other such subterfuge. We had one of them at work who, over and over again, would come and sit at my cafeteria table and then start to spout this stuff, despite being asked to leave. I got him fired for harassing me and others. He certainly brought that on himself.
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