Once again, Lizzy, you throw up some more of the rote and rituals of your group. It just makes me want to throw up!
You want to celebrate an angel, and try and tie it to my birthday? What could be further from my mind? There is only one to celebrate, and that is Jesus Christ. My birthday is inconsequential in the overall scheme of things, and the angel appearing to Mary is just more of your groups attempt to pervert God's plan. There should be no feast for an angel of any type. They are created beings for the sole purpose of ministering to God. With Michael, his ministry included talking to the Virgin. God spoke through that Angel so that the woman would not misunderstand when she became pregnant without knowing Joseph.
The Scriptures you quoted do nothing to celebrate Christ. The Scriptures you quoted were not entirely from the Bible, unless you want to include the Apocrypha. But the Apocrypha isn't Canon. Even the Catholic Church doesn't think so, but includes it for reference and to make their feeble attempts to convince blind people that they can see something that is not there.
So thanks for the birthday wishes, but no thanks for the rest of your post which does nothing to promote the gospel. The only gospel I know speaks of the saving grace made available through Jesus Christ. We are not told to go into all the world and preach the church. Paul didn't tell everybody that must be saved by the church. Paul didn't tell everybody to celebrate the church or the coming of some angels. The entire record we see in Scripture has one purpose only. The purpose is to prepare the world, which God has created, for His entry as a man, demonstrating holiness, and sacrificed for our sin.
Before the beginning of creation, God planned everything we see in Scripture. How else could the profits for tell the coming of Jesus Christ? How else could the record be established and passed to us through the written word that we have? The Catholic Church will claim that the only reason we have it is because they wrote it. It was written by instruments of God. It was written by the Holy Ghost. The Catholic Church may have a claim of assistance, but it's certainly cannot claim a role in salvation which it tries to do.
So, Lizzy, thanks for the birthday greeting of sorts. But your attempt to further the Catholic errors in doctrine are falling on deaf ears here in my house. There is no other besides Jesus name, by which we are saved. Not by works! Not by celebrations! And, most certainly not by taking our eyes off of the author and finisher of our faith. Your post is just another attempt to make us look down instead of up!!! That is how the enemy works!
Hebrews 3: 3 Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge as our apostle and high priest. 2 He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all Gods house. 3 Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. 4 For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. 5 Moses was faithful as a servant in all Gods house, bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future. 6 But Christ is faithful as the Son over Gods house. And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we glory. ...
Hebrews 12: ... 1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, 2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
You, WVKayaker are a treasure in the Body of Christ. I know you don’t want to hear that, that Christ is the true treasure, but I tell you, as long as we remain on this earth, in our natural bodies, you are a treasure. I am so glad you are here with us, to help steer the wheel in the storm. Thank you!
Regards,
smvoice