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To: caww
No...we ‘enjoy’ celebrating the Christmas season ‘with’ our children, family and friends....and for that matter most of the world. As said all the “Trimmings” surrounding Christmas “Point to Christ”....and this even to those who celebrate who are not Christian.

Yes, it's amazing how believers and non-believers are so closely yoked together in worship! Oh..wait...

2Co 6:14 Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?
2Co 6:15 And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever?

You know, the Lord Jesus Christ actually GAVE his followers holy days to observe. You can find these holy days of the Lord our God in Leviticus chapter 23. The traditional church didn't have to get rid of Jesus's holy days and create their own holidays, but I guess that's something they chose to do. Fortunately it's never too late to come back to the real Jesus.

158 posted on 04/14/2013 7:20:20 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: DouglasKC

Douglas....Christians are not bound to the Holy Days you allude to...which is another topic altogether. We are free in Christ...observing these does not make one more holy or less acceptable because our position now is IN Christ as Christians...and we walk by faith.

As for the Jewish Holy Days..they were ‘shadows’ of the gospel to come....they all ‘pointed to Christ’... until He came. We are “complete” in Him as Christians. Jesus was very clear that these not be forced on the new Gentile believers.

Romans 14:3 ...The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them.

Romans 14:5.... One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind.

Romans 14:17.... For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit,


159 posted on 04/14/2013 7:48:36 PM PDT by caww
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Bah! Humbug!

160 posted on 04/14/2013 8:02:15 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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