there are practical things which we do, but when worship I follow what the Bible says, Christmas is not in the Bible, its founded of Pagan symbols and rituals and whitewashed with Christianty.
I don't believe the holiday of Christmas is a nationally-sanctioned day of worship.
I'm pretty sure it is, actually, but no one is required to celebrate it, because, y'know, freedom.
Yep, and maybe William Shakespeare was my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather's 6th cousin.
Shakespeare didn't live in the 900s. :tounge:
There, I took out a few greats, is that more accurate?
It does in Psalms, which I already showed you. Being in the Old Testament does not make it irrelevant. Jesus quoted Old Testament scripture to fight temptation in the New Testament.
He also said we have a new covenant, why don't we have animal sacrifices or Priests, or Temples?
Jesus fulfilled those things. But he didn't fulfill music, that doesn't make any sense. We can praise the Lord any way we want, as long as it's honest praise, it's okay.
It's not law that you have to celebrate Christmas and Easter.
But the very idea of it is wrong, do you even know the origins?
I know about the origins, the Romans used to worship the sun on December 25 to celebrate the return of longer days, but Julius I told them that was wrong and they should worship Jesus instead. So December 25 became a day to worship Jesus and celebrate his birth, instead of worship a ball of burning gas. The date used to be that of a pagan holiday, but it was "rededicated" to the Lord. I'd say that's a good thing.
Holy: "dedicated or consecrated to God or a religious purpose;" "sacred." It doesn't mean sinless, it means set apart. It doesn't mean better than, it means different than.
But Holy is set apart, apart from this world apart from Sin.
We are set apart from this world and from sin. We still sin sometimes, because of the influence of the flesh, but our souls are saved and being sanctified. We are covered by Jesus' righteousness and set apart by God, therefore we are holy. God is holy in a different way, the second definition was "sacred." God is not set apart for God because He is God, He is set apart from everything because He made everything.
I'd say it's founded on Christianity and whitewashed with pagan things by our secular culture.
Far from it, there was Sinterklaus or something like that in Pagan Germany.
I just looked it up, it's spelled Sinterklaas, but anyway, it's not pagan. Sinterklaas is the German spelling of Saint Nicholas, who was a Christian that gave money to the poor. A good person spreading the love of Jesus, but today he is remembered as Santa Claus bringing presents to all the good little children. He was a Christian man, but he has been incorporated into our culture in a non-Christian way.
And the true worship of God has never exactly been just another "religon" anyway.
From a historian's point of view, it's not a religion until it's institutionalized. Before that it's not a religion.
Religion just means belief. If someone believes something, anything, that is their religion. If someone thought that the world was a giant gumball created by Elvis, even if they didn't write a book about it, it would still be their religion.
That is an example of a good thing done by a bad person, then.
So I'm gonna guess you're not a fan of Jefferson?
I'm a fan of many of his accomplishments, but he was apparently a very immoral person. I can't get over my new knowledge of his Bible-editing. He has joined Abe Lincoln in my list of people who are regarded as heroes but I have learned otherwise.
Hey, Keplers, how did you trace your family history back, anyway?
Ancestry.com for most of it, I believe. Lots and lots of research into local/federal records. We compiled it in... 2007, I believe, for my grandparents' fiftieth anniversary. We traced my paternal grandmother and grandfather's lines.
(And I agree too)