wishing all a Blessed Christmas

[IreneM]

Wishing you all a Blessed Christmas

and remember Jesus is the reason for the season!!!!

May God Bless each and every one of you EVEN of you don't belive in Him He still believes in you.............

In Christ

IreneM

ps I know it is early but wanted to get this in before relitives or travel keepy you away from the board for awhile.....

[FaithfulFollower]

Amen IreneM!

Happy Holidays to you as well. May God bless you this Christmas.

With Love In Christ,

Danielle

[salt and light]

I mean no offence, but Jesus is NOT the reason for the season. Jesus has nothing to do with Christmas. Christmas trees, yule logs, mistle toe all have pagan origins, and pagans have been using these things to worship false gods hundreds of years before Jesus came to earth, and in fact, read Jeremiah chapter 10 talks about decorating trees, and it says in verse 2, "Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen....." Verses 3 and 4 says, "....... for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the ax. They deck it with silver and gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not." Now some of you might say, "Well that is the old testament", and I say, where in the new testament does it mention anything about worshipping the Lord with trees or celebrating His birth with trees?, in fact, where does it even say that we are to observe the Lord's birth every year? The bible gives no date of His birth, and it certainly wasn't Dec. 25th. There is nothing in the bible that even says that the early church observed the anniversary of the birth of our Lord and Saviour and celebrated it. What does a decorated tree have to do with Jesus anyhow? We know what the word "merry" means, it means happy, "joyful", and the word "mass" or mas" means "death sacrifice", and Jesus has absolutely nothing to do with mass, for He is alive for ever more. He offered His body once and for all as it says in Hebrews chapter 10, and He does not reoffer His body, so Jesus has nothing to do with mass, and when a person says "Merry Christmas", they are basically saying "merry death of Christ", or "have another death of Christ" unknowingly. What does a fat man in a red suit and flying reindeer have to do with our Lord and Saviour? NOTHING. Christmas is not a holy day, it is not christian. If christians are going to celebrate the birth of our Lord and Saviour, I don't think the Lord would be displeased, as long as we leave out the pagan customs {trees, yule logs, mistle toe}. John 4:24 says, "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." I think we ought to celebrate His birth in spirit and in truth. Christians shouldn't celebrate this pagan event the way unsaved Christ rejectors do, "Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye seperate, saith the Lord...." {2 Cor.6:17}. We as christians shouldn't borrow pagan customs to celebrate the Lords birth every year, for I think it is an insult to the Lord to do so, and we should heed God's word, "Learn not the way of the heathen", we shouldn't even practice them. Parents, especially christian parents shouldn't lie to their children about some fat man in a red suit who rides in a sleigh with 8 flying reindeer who doesn't exist. Even though we are not commanded to observe the birth of our Lord, and even though there is no hint in the bible that the early church did, I still believe that the devil uses Santa Claus to lure children away from Jesus Christ on this so called holiday. I believe that Santa Clause is the devil's joke on Jesus, because you see a man in a red suit saying, "ho ho ho, merry Christmas, {ho ho ho, merry death of Christ}. I know I probably opened up a can of worms with this post, but hey, truth is truth. My wife and I told our two small children that Santa Claus does not exist, we didn't feel right lying to them. We still buy them gifts, but they know that mommy and daddy bought them. I believe if we are going to erect something in our home and nail it down with hammer and nails, it ought to be a cross, and not a decorated pine tree. Yes Jesus Christ was born in the city of David, and was layed in a manger in swaddling clothes as the bible says, but decorated trees, Santa Claus, mistletoe etc., what do they have to do with it? nothing. When our church sings carols, or when my family sings carols, we sing the traditional carols like, "Hark the Herald Angels Sing", "Joy to the World", "Silent Night", not "Deck the Halls with bows of Holly", or "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer", and so on. Some lady told me last year that we need to keep Jesus in Christmas, and I told her that Jesus was never in Christmas. As far as most christians go, Jesus is the reason for the season, ok, then lets celebrate it without doing it the pagan, heathen way. I am not trying to ruin anybody's Christmas, but ever since I found out that it is really a pagan thing a few years ago, I felt the need to tell other christians, and if anybody doesn't like what I posted, just check out the origins of Christmas.

[IreneM]

Look can't anyone post a meesage without someone contridicting it??

I know what you stated but we do celebrate Christimas and we as christians have a reason other then presents so let it be................

In Christ

IreneM

[salt and light]

IreneM,

Sorry if the truth offended you, I know a lot of well meaning christians don't know the origins of Christmas, and I thought I'd share it with you all. Again, I'm sorry if the truth offended you. I do suggest you ask the Lord what He thinks, since it supposedly has to do with Him.

[IreneM]

So nolw its a sin to wish some one a blessed christmas???

OK !!!

IreneM

[Guest Thomas I believe]

Thank You Irene and happy Holidays to you too. I pray that God blesses you in this New year that is to come.

[DaNcInAnGeL]

Irene...Thank you for wishing all of us a Merry Christmas. And I agree why cant people just let things be. Jesus is the reason for the season. And Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all of my family here at Worthy.

Love in Christ,

Dancin

[salt and light]

Irene,

I'm sure that when people say Merry Christmas, or "Have a blessed Christmas", they aren't meaning any harm or disrespect to the Lord, for the Lord knows their hearts, and if they say it without knowing what it actually means, they are not sinning, but now you do know what it means, and if any christian has a problem with what I said, that is between them and the Lord, and if they want to disrespect the Lord and continue the practice of pagan, heathen customs, after they were enlightened, go ahead, but you all were told the truth, and the problem with christians today is, if they hear the truth, they get offended and angry, because the truth inconveniences them, and gets in the way of their plans. Whether you like it or not, Jesus has nothing to do with Christmas, and that is a fact, sorry.

[Guest Thomas I believe]

Irene,