Posted on 10/31/2013 10:10:25 AM PDT by Gamecock
Where’s the ‘Aw, Geez’ guy when you need him. Yep, it’s a sin to celebrate the birth of our Savior. Ridiculous. How in the world could I be worshipping two mythical beings I have never heard of? Who cares if it is not the right date? It is a day set aside a long time ago to recognize and celebrate the birth of our Savior. Which is what we do.
Today it’s “Liberalism: the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”
This is not about me. I felt called to give a word of warning. Heed it or not. Free will is fundamental to Christianity.
And no, I don’t feel that way about Christmas. The admonition that Jehovah’s Witnesses take so seriously was meant to warn people about festivals and pageants when they ignore the word of God in their daily life. It’s the second part of that that is important. If you show kindness to others as your rule of life, then when you celebrate the birth of the Messiah it is from the heart, and goes with the rest of your life. It is not just about the fun of the celebration itself.
My thoughts on this, anyway.
Yeah. I would add “and free” to that quote when it comes to liberalism
It’s Samhain, appropriated and renamed.
It’s the Celtic new year and the night when the veil between the worlds is thinnest.
It’s a LOT older than the church.
It begins at sunset tonight and ends at sunset tomorrow, hence November 1 getting thrown into the mix.
The only thing anybody really needs to know about Halloween is that it can be a lot of fun and people shouldn’t get so uptight about things. Especially not anybody that puts up a Christmas Tree (pagan roots) or decorates Easter Eggs (pagan roots).
It’s a superstitious folk-corruption of a religious day. Mostly harmless, but the fixation on death, blood, and gore says there is something gravely wrong with some people.
Because this is the time of year when the dead can hear you through the veil.
It’s all pagan.
The demons themselves are real. As in the Gospel. Why give them a free day pass, even if that day is arbitrary?
The correlations in dates probably stem from the fact that getting pagans to understand and believe in Christ and even a Triune God was relatively easy compared with getting them to abandon their cherished holiday practices. So the Church accommodated and altered the associated holiday stories into Christian themes. Nobody is actually forced to celebrate these or any holidays, whatever their origins, and if they believe doing so is bowing to the Devil then they are certainly welcome to not partake.
We were discussing origins not doctrine.
Yep.
:)
All Saint’s Day started in the Christian Church, I believe that was before Christianity spread to the Celts.
Samhain is older, and Halloween today may carry traditions from Samhain, but I do not believe All Saint’s Day started with Samhain. I understand their origins to be separate.
>> “Yep, it’s a sin to celebrate the birth of our Savior. Ridiculous.” <<
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Great strawman!
Dercember 25 is NOT the birth date of our savior, even the past two popes admit that.
If you wish to celebrate Yeshua’s birth, His Father provided a way to do that; its called the Feast of Tabernacles, or more properly, Sukkot.
It occurs in the Biblical seventh month, which generally coincides with the latter part of September, and the early part of October. This year it was Sept 22-28.
>> “Who cares if it is not the right date?” <<
Yehova said that he cares, and if you are one of his, then you care. Simple, huh?
>> “Which is what we do” <<
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Its not what Yeshua’s sheep do! (its what the lost do)
I’m pecking replies on an iPhone so we’ll have to wait but my history is correct.
I tried to explain that the sunset to sunset observance of time accounts for “halloween” ending up two days for us and one day for them so All Saints got tacked on to take up the slack, as it were.
I ignore Hallowe’en, Christmas and Easter...in the process, I save a LOT of money; which I’m going to need to pay for ObamaCare. :-)
>> “It begins at sunset tonight and ends at sunset tomorrow, hence November 1 getting thrown into the mix” <<
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Biblically, all days begin at sunset
If Byzantine Christians started a celebratory feast of in rememberance of saints that had died, before they contacted the Celts, how did that happen?
I know I can be wrong on this, I’m not a great historian with lots of detailed reference. I’m looking to learn.
1. It’s fun.
2. It’s innocent.
3. Kids love it.
4. Adults love it.
5. Anyone who thinks religion is so weak as to be harmed by such a fun day is a fool.
:D
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