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To Suddenly be confronted with the fact that some of your fondest family memories are of Pagan worship practices can be emotionally traumatic.
Of course being a Christian means we must change even at the expense of suffering persecution for our beliefs. Imagine the response when you announce to your family that Pagan trees in the living room are not of God.
Your spouse, kids, parents and all the rest that are still Celebrating this holiday will try to pressure you into joining in the practices and traditions of this overly comertial holliday with pagan roots.
over on the right is a list of link to the history of birthdays celebrations, Trees, Red suited norse gods (and the black suited st nick).
Rather than fill up MySpace and Face Book pages with the Reactions and Debates associated with this topic, and other discussion about sudo christian practices I started this blog.
The Idea Being to post a link to this blog when I or others see this type of error or discussion and provide it with a better forum. The Rules of conduct are on the top right.
Yours in Christ,
Donald C Phinney II
http://www.donphinney.com
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ReplyDeleteIt is hard to debate the rest of it once it is show conclusively that yearly celebration of a birthday is pagan in origin and something a good jew would not even consider during the time of christ
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All the debate of when he is born and if it is ok do celebrate on a different date is pretty much meaningless when the idea of celebrating a yearly birthday of a person who would be against it.
I have noticed a lack of any posting here, but there have been quite a few visitors.......
Hi Don, let me be the first to comment. I know that Dec 25th is originally a pagan holiday and has returned to its roots as being pagan. Personally, we don't put up a tree or decorate for Christmas. Christ's birth is NOT about trees and tinsel OR santa who has become the god of Christmas nowadays although the real Bishop Nicholas was a godly manin the 3rd century. He also suffered for his faith. As I have seen in many other instances people have lifted him (and other godly people) up into a god status. I will give gifts to people who are special to me though. I will also celebrate Christ's coming to earth as a human so he could sacrifice Himself on the Cross. Birthdays may be rooted in pagan astrology, but what about just (for kids anyway) a birthday cake w/NO reference to astrology at all. You will notice that on my skype I no longer have any reference to my birth date. That's b/c a woman tried her best to link it to astrolgy. I flat out refused to let her do that although one of my friends let it slip b/c they didn't understand. I suppose, when you look at things w/a microscope, everything we know has roots in paganism (except our foundation faith). Even the stars on our national flag. I know you can probably out argue me in no time flat, but I will continue to at least celebrate Christ's coming incarnate as a human. So, is God going to judge us for celebrating Christ's coming? God looks on the heart and if our heart is focused on shopping obssessively, tinsel and santa and not Christ, then yeah. Nuf said. :o)
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