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So what? Do you do anything Jesus didn't specifically command you to do? Do you enjoy sports? Movies? Do you have any hobbies? Jesus didn't command us to do a whole lot of things, but that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with doing them. Good grief, this nutso freaking out over Christmas is just plain ludicrous.
With all due respect Katzpur, sports, movies, hobbies or the like are Not necessarily connected to religious worship but are secular things. As long as wholesome are not unscriptural.
Would God approve of religious lies ? Isn't there a lot of religious lies connected to the so-called Christmas story ?
Isn't the Christmas story just Christian names or labels pasted on an already pre-Christian existing festival ?
I'm not even christian and I know that Jesus wasn't born in December.
I am pretty sure everyone knows that.
It's just a nice time to celebrate kindness and love. Remember friends and family and gather.
No reason to lose sleep.
How would Jesus' apostles have celebrated Christmas? It was an already pre-Christian celebration in Jesus' day.
Don't some people ' loose sleep ' over this ' national holiday of excessive consumer consumption ' when the bills arrive ?
....but the Jews back then did Not celebrate birthdays.
Jesus said to commemorate [ honor ] the day of his death according to Luke 22 v 19.
That does Not make ' Good Friday ' so to speak, fall each year on a Friday, but that the Spring month of Nisan the 14th day should be set aside as a memorial of that first ' Good Friday '. That lunar calendar day or date corresponds closely to the Jewish Passover celebration from the time that the moon is full starting in Jerusalem.
There were censuses back then, that's why they were going to Bethlehem in the First place.
You'd think if there was one day in the year when Christians could put aside their differences and celebrate their oneness, it would be Christmas.
Yet there always seems to be a faction determined to find the dark lining in silver clouds.
The superstitious mind cannot overcome the belief that assigns import to external objects and rituals. The idea that we decide what we are celebrating by what we INTEND to celebrate is completely foreign to them. Truly sad!
Thanks for the warning, but most of your fellow human beings are likely just as informed on the subject as you are. No hard feelings, please understand, but millions of us are commemorating the birth of our Savior and don't appreciate being told by some do-gooder that the beautiful carols we sing, the nativity sets depicting the coming of the Son of God to earth, and the scriptural account of His birth have anything whatsoever to do with "the beast." So don't celebrate Christmas if you don't want to, but for crying out loud, leave the rest of us alone.
Beauty, without the beast mindset.
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Where in the Bible are we commanded to wear pants?
A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.
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The mark of the beast is a mark that people will be forced to have placed on their forehead or on their right hand during the Tribulation, which is still future, if they want to be able to buy or sell anything.
Revelation 13:16 And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, 17] and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name.
It has absolutely nothing to do with what day you worship on, or celebrating Christmas or Easter.
The mark of a beast has nothing to do with this nonsense:
"The predominant cord of perfection (maturity) resides within, reach for it!"
Revelation 13:16 And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, 17] and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name.
It has absolutely nothing to do with what day you worship on, or celebrating Christmas or Easter.
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The mark of a beast has nothing to do with this nonsense:
"The predominant cord of perfection (maturity) resides within, reach for it!"
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Are you claiming that Revelation 13:16-17 doesn't say what it plainly says?
It says, what it says, but not according to a literal interpretation.
But I am sure that you will continue to buy and sell this nonsense:
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The mark of the beast is a mark that people will be forced to have placed on their forehead or on their right hand during the Tribulation, which is still future, if they want to be able to buy or sell anything.
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Or are you referring to what the OP is talking about which is completely different and is nonsense?
It says, what it says, but not according to a literal interpretation.
But I am sure that you will continue to buy and sell this nonsense:
Now, that you mention it, both!
Actually, I deleted that post. But since you replied before I did so . . . the mark of the beast has nothing to do with the claims of the OP, but Revelation 13:16-17 means exactly what it says. During the Tribulation, the beast who is the man of lawlessness mentioned in 2 Thess. 2:3-9 will require that a mark be placed on the forehead or on the right hand of anyone who wants to buy or sell. And it's very literal.
But if, and you don't believe it, that is no concern of mine. And I truly do not care.
what is merry about it? if you knew where i had come from you would know why i am happy here.
as to who is the real jesus??? i havent met anybody yet who knew him so i cant discuss that subject with anybody.
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The idea that we decide what we are celebrating by what we INTEND to celebrate is completely foreign to them. Truly sad!
The mark of a beast has nothing to do with this nonsense:
