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To: DouglasKC

No, you're wrong, this is an attack on Christianity and the way that we observe Christmas. Christmas, like many religious rites that do not derrive directly from admonition of Jesus, were made part of the early church worship service in an effort to make Christianity come alive for the many illiterate worshipers. The celebration of Christmas simply gives a special time of year for Christians to remember and celebrate the birth of Christ as told in the New Testament. What's wrong with that?


92 posted on 12/04/2005 1:33:28 PM PST by Eva
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To: Eva
No, you're wrong, this is an attack on Christianity and the way that we observe Christmas. Christmas, like many religious rites that do not derrive directly from admonition of Jesus, were made part of the early church worship service in an effort to make Christianity come alive for the many illiterate worshipers.

So it's based on tradition. I can't argue against that except to say it didn't really become tradition until hundreds of years after Christ died.

The celebration of Christmas simply gives a special time of year for Christians to remember and celebrate the birth of Christ as told in the New Testament. What's wrong with that?

Christ created holy days to mark, signify and portend what God knew to be important for man. Christmas was not one of these days. Christ also commanded to walk as he walked. He did not celebrate his own birth or command his followers to celebrate his birth. Instead, he observed the holy days that he himself created. Christmas distracts and pulls people away from the truths that are contained in the true, holy, days that he created.

96 posted on 12/04/2005 1:52:11 PM PST by DouglasKC
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