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I’m so sorry! I forgot to reply to you, and now Christmas is OVER! Well, I can still reply now.
That’s okay, technically there’s still the 12 days of Christmas.
Well, now that Christmas is over, how did it go?
It was fine, it was nice to be with my family. I kind of realized that no day belongs to certain people, so I just enjoyed the day and had fun.
Well, over the years we’ve been studying the history of Christmas. We realized that there was nothing wrong with celebrating Jesus’s birth, and there wasn’t anything wrong with celebrating it with certain traditions either: like Christmas trees, candy canes, and giving gifts.
Nice, I’m glad for you. How was your Christmas?
“He sure is a frog-walker, he heaves a big sigh
He only lacks wings for to be on the fly.”Ah, right! I forgot about the 12 days of Christmas.
I’m glad to hear that you had an enjoyable time with your family!
Christmas for my family was a blast! My siblings and I did Secret Santa (or Secret Sibling as we call it) and that was so much fun! It was even more of a blessing giving our parents gifts.
It was a very grand time!
“Do what is right, let the consequences follow.” -Truth and Treason
I’m glad to hear that you had an enjoyable time with your family!
Thank you!
Christmas for my family was a blast! My siblings and I did Secret Santa (or Secret Sibling as we call it) and that was so much fun! It was even more of a blessing giving our parents gifts.
It was a very grand time!
Aw, that’s so sweet! I’m glad you had a good Christmas as well. Hard to believe it’s already over…
“He sure is a frog-walker, he heaves a big sigh
He only lacks wings for to be on the fly.”Yeah, I’ve heard some Christians don’t celebrate Christmas because it integrated some popular winter traditions from pagan cultures.
Personally, I see it as taking back the culture for Christ. Taking something pagan and turning into something that is meant to glorify God.
That’s actually one of the primary missions of Kingdom Pen.
But if you throw out Christmas for pagan origin reasons, then you also have to throw out attending church, as just about every tradition we have during Sunday meetings today came from a pagan source.
In the first century, disciples of Christ just met in homes, and everyone contributed and participated. Basically what modern small groups look like is what church attendance was supposed to resemble.
But from the pagans, the church adopted the idea of church buildings as sacred spaces (temples), the modern order of worship, the weekly sermon as the centerpiece, the professional pastor and clergy hierarchy (now there are “special” christians or “super saints”), special clothing worn for church, professional church musicians and choirs, turning baptism and the Lord’s supper into impotent and sterile religious rituals, seminaries, etc.
All came from outside the Bible and were commonplace in other religions that christians adopted. A really great book that goes through how pagan the modern church is, is this book “Pagan Christianity“.
Or, you can watch this video. WARNING: this is very much like taking the “red pill” and may cause you to rethink everything about Christianity and religion. Lol!
That said, it’s totally fine if you don’t want to celebrate Christmas. The Bible even says it’s totally fine if you want to have holidays OR if you want to just treat every day the same.
Romans 14 really just renders so much of the things we Christians argue about completely irrelevant. Haha!
One person judges one day to be more important than another day. Someone else judges every day to be the same. Let each one be fully convinced in his own mind. 6 Whoever observes the day, observes it for the honor of the Lord.[a] Whoever eats, eats for the Lord, since he gives thanks to God; and whoever does not eat, it is for the Lord that he does not eat it, and he gives thanks to God. – Romans 14
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Learn Music production: https://www.orpheusuniversity.com/Yes! We celebrate Christmas in my family. We celebrate it in different ways depending on which side of the family we are at, but we always go to church on Christmas Eve and have Christ at the center. Christmas for us is a celebration of the hope and light that came when Christ entered the world as a baby and served as the greatest gift of love humanity could ever receive.
I believe the pagan festival on the 25th thing is actually a myth. It was much farther away from Christmas if I remember. I watched a video on the subject once. As far as Christmas not being stated directly in the Bible, there’s no commandment that says you can’t celebrate Christmas or any other festival for that matter. While there are several festivals God gave the Israelites in the Old Testament to celebrate, later we see they also threw festivals as a way of thanking God when they won a great victory. As long as they weren’t disobeying any other commands inside of their festival and honoring God with the way they celebrated, God was pleased with their festivities.
There was even once when David’s wife got annoyed because he was so happy about the festival he wouldn’t stop dancing, lol.
There once was a snail who was depressed and would do anything for his girlfriend. Didn't end well.
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