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9/17/10 5:20 PM

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Reformation Reversal: For the first time in 500...

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ehud wrote:
i can assure you that our situation in northern ireland christianity has compromised with evil

When Jesus can say this about His Church....
"Rev 3:15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire"

Then it is no surprise that our secular institutions have sin within.

Jesus prayed;
John 17:15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.

Trust only in God, not in men.

1/2/09 5:03 PM

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Where is Christ in Christmas?

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Neil wrote:
"Without the birth and incarnation of Christ, - this would clearly have not existed."
#1] Of course, but adducing these as a reason we ought to celebrate Christ-mass is a non sequitur. Facts do not imply duties.
"I see no reason for not praising and commemorating God for the incarnation of His Son."
#2] Inability to see a reason not to isn't a valid argument, unless choice of days of public worship has been wholly delegated to human imagination. We are always free to *privately* praise God for His revealed truths, however.
"Christmas may have been usurped by the worldly concerns of mankind,"
#3] Begs the question. One can't *usurp* a holyday that (as I argue) doesn't Scripturally exist.

#1] It's not a duty to praise worship and celebrate the coming of Christ. It is a JOY. As the HOST of heaven expressed at HIS Birth.

#2] I still maintain that their is NO reason NOT to celebrate. This worship is not public imagination as you imply. It is an expression of Joy to the Lord and goodwill to all men.

#3] Taking time off from the daily routine to celebrate the greatest gift mankind ever received, is an excellent way to worship God and His gift of life to those who follow His Son.
I'm only sorry that so many here can't see that.

1/2/09 12:40 PM

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Neil wrote:
if we don't even know the *day* Christ was born on, then such holydays are a non-starter anyhow, & nothing more than arbitrary human invention

The crucifiction, the death and resurrection of Christ is the churches greatest memorial to worship praise and remember Christ's sacrifice for His elect.
Without the birth and incarnation of Christ, - this would clearly have not existed.
I see no reason for not praising and commemorating God for the incarnation of His Son.
Christmas may have been usurped by the worldly concerns of mankind, but that is not what the believer is communicating to God and His Son in that event.
If you pray to God as a non-believer God does not listen. Therefore there is a difference to God in who and why He discerns and listens to.
Jeremiah 14:11 Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people for their good. 12 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence" (also 7:16)