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1 posted on 12/21/2016 8:03:51 AM PST by DouglasKC
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To: DouglasKC

Get off your high horse and do it for the kids.


2 posted on 12/21/2016 8:06:18 AM PST by tjd1454
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To: DouglasKC

Get off your high horse and do it for the kids.


3 posted on 12/21/2016 8:06:23 AM PST by tjd1454
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I bet you don’t observe Easter as holy either?

I get where your coming from, though. I do.

IMO EVERY Sunday is Easter Sunday. Where Christians come together - observe the LORDS Supper - and celebrate the fact we serve a risen Savior.


4 posted on 12/21/2016 8:07:15 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
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The Entire world has chosen a consensus date to celebrate the divine birth of the man who saved us all by sacrificing himself in a painful, miserable way. He showed us all that through his single sacrifice we have nothing to fear, we have everything to be thankful for, and that we are free in the free-est way.

The actual holiday is not the birth of Jesus. It’s not his birthday. The church declared this day to be his to take the wind out of the sails of the Pagani and the Heathens who celebrated Yule, Solstice, or some other tribal harvest / sacrifice holiday.

In my house we know it’s not his actual birthday. We just know this is the day we celebrate Him and his, and what he gave us all to enjoy forever.


5 posted on 12/21/2016 8:07:23 AM PST by Celerity
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Bah, humbug to you, too!

CC


8 posted on 12/21/2016 8:11:45 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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Romans 14:5New International Version (NIV)

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.


11 posted on 12/21/2016 8:13:52 AM PST by Adventure gal
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So let me get this straight. You're telling me that Jesus and the Disciples did NOT have a Christmas tree with ornaments? No presents? nary a King James Bible in the house? Next you'll be telling me He didn't keep Sunday holy but instead kept Saturday as His day.

/s

13 posted on 12/21/2016 8:15:36 AM PST by BipolarBob
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The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector


To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable: 

10 “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 

11 The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. 

12 I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’

13 “But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’

14 “I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”


 

18 posted on 12/21/2016 8:29:54 AM PST by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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I'd get into a discussion with you but since you are so righteous, sanctimonious, omniscient, and have a direct line to God, I'll just say...

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

22 posted on 12/21/2016 8:36:17 AM PST by USS Alaska (Kill all muslim, terrorist savages, with extreme prejudice!!!)
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I am part of the 8% who doesn't observe Christmas at all. Now the primary reason why I don't observe it is that I KNOW and BELIEVE that the Lord God has given us HIS days to observe and that these days have purpose and meaning. They ARE holy days. Days that are set apart for God's purpose. These days are listed in God's holy word in Leviticus chapter 23.

I missed the part where God said DON'T celebrate Him on any other days.

What the myths of Christmas? Santa Claus. Flying reindeer. Elves.

Rejecting these myths in no way implies rejecting a celebration of the birth of Christ.

Jesus born on December 25th.

I don't know anyone who doesn't know that the actual date is unknown.

28 posted on 12/21/2016 10:12:30 AM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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I see you are using a computer—and electricity.

Absolutely NOWHERE in GOD’S HOLY WORD does it say we may use computers or electricity! Why do you disregard GOD’S HOLY WORD?!?!


29 posted on 12/21/2016 10:42:51 AM PST by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
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God sent his son among us to save us and we should not celebrate his having done so?

He did not send him to condemn the world, he sent him to save the world.

If you seek only condemnation, you will get it.

35 posted on 12/21/2016 10:59:10 AM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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Merry Christmas, grich.
48 posted on 12/21/2016 2:59:38 PM PST by cloudmountain
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