good for you that is important...to you
I expect most people who celebrated it had a good one.
you would be surprised as how many don't and need the eggnog or something stronger to kill their conscience madness and/or loneliness...many are stressed anxious and frustrated and further in debt...
normal day...a bit saddened to see the amount of neglect and waste of these commercial holidaze...
Follow the thread of your question. If we don't know when, one day in honor of the event is as good as another. So, December 25th it is for most of Christendom.
as if the real date was unknown or impossible to better estimate...but hey good for them...convenient too
Which would mean something were it required, but as it isn't, doesn't.
so there it is...just as they wanted it...their tradition
That said, the Bible made a fairly big deal of the birth too.
yup and much less in fact nothing at all about still celebrating it...ironically the handing out of the the instructions NOT to keep it was pretty big...
yup and that's exactly the type of thinking that made Him have to be born to start with...and that attitude killed Him too...more compelled to its own traditions than to repent and keep His...
As per one of my answers, most religions share more similarities than differences, as crucial as the distinctions in difference are.
"You guys worship the Sun? How nice! We worship the SON! See how clever we are? Come lets party together shall we?"
I notice you don't notice that I disagree with your exegesis. As does most of Christendom, which is probably important to you, given your more serious points of divergence.
I notice...and that you make it about what you want...christendom wants...I want...yet nothing about what He wants...
Which doesn't fairly characterize what's happening OUTSIDE of your noggin.
please explain why you need a date to celebrate the birth? And props? And why now that you have a better approximation of that date why dec 25? I mean it is about His birth yes? or tradition?
I'm compelled in the sense that anything we find rewarding and enjoyable compels us.
Said Eve to herself taking the fruit and eating...compelled as every defiled mind since...is why we are to die to that compulsion and be reformed in Him become more like Him to find what HE finds as rewarding and enjoyable...and do IT...
You're the only one protesting people.
yes I have seen and heard the Protestants are giving up...giving in...going alone to get along is the new age....
I have any number of disagreements with my Catholic brothers and sisters, but they aren't salvific
really? NOT surprised you think that way...
and I don't "claim to protest". That's another pile of...straw you're spinning, if not into gold.
...lukewarm never will protest...
gold matters nothing...especially when the streets are made of it...what matters is that we get there because we wish to continue to live as He does...on earth as it is in heaven...
You should read Tolkien and Lewis on the true Christian myth. It would do you good.
the way you read scripture I can't trust you have understanding as to what is good...Christian myth...LOL so bored you need that now?
The thing is, again, only one of us confuses your ways and your thoughts with His ways and His thoughts.
Merry Christmas
the thing is again you are merely compelled to rewards and joy different than mine...
