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Old 11-15-2007, 06:40 AM
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Originally Posted by Rico View Post
The difference is that the Bible clearly warns against adopting pagan practices and then doing them unto the Lord. If Christmas had no connection whatsoever to Jesus then I wouldn't have such an issue against it. God doesn't have a birthday and the only thing He said to do in remembrance of Him was communion, not set a day aside to celebrate the day He came to Earth as a man. He certainly never gave instructions to anyone to take pagan practices and call them Christian, as some method to win more converts. Any way I look at it, celebrating Christmas as a Christian holiday blatently goes against God's Word.
God doesn't have a birthday, but Jesus does.

And, to follow this line of reasoning, in our churches we sing songs to music that originated in worldly environments. Many of the songs we sing and dance and shout to are sung to blues and jazz music.

We also sing songs that were written by trinitarians.

Where do we draw the line?
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