Church Movement Aims to Restore 'Scandal' of Christmas

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Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:49 pm Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

"Just because the word Christmas comes from "Christ's mass" and was coined by the Catholic Church doesn't mean that I cannot celebrate the birth of Christ and call it Christmas with a heart of devotion free from the baggage of the past. "

The Israelites dedicated the calf to YHWH.
Didn''t they rationalize that in exactly the same way?

Was God happy?

The problem is that God himself said repeatedly "Do not learn the way of the Heathen."
Sadly, absolutely everything about the Nativity is taken directly from some or another pagan celebration, right down to the christ (simply "the annointed one" in Greek- there were MANY) being born in the time of winter solstice, being adored at his birth, and being born of a virgin mother.

To continue to celebrate the nativity is to continue the pagan festivals that God has specifically forbidden. To rededicate a celebration of Isis to Mary, of Mithra to Yeshua, and of Saturn to God doesn't make it holy in God's eyes.

People say "Well that's not what Christmas means to me."

That's fine, but GOD has made it clear what such celebrations mean to HIM.
God has also made it clear that we don't get to pick and choose how we should serve Him.

He has rules. We have the rulebook.

When you face God what will you say?

"I read your rulebook, but I didn't think you were really serious"?

Or "But it was CHRISTMAS"?