Merry Christmas to one and all !!

[coksiw]

Originally Posted by diakonos

Ho ho ho

If you think about it, Santa shouldn’t be invading houses and bringing gifts. He is old, and obese, and always exposed to cold weather. He would die of covid if he gets it.

[Nicodemus1968]

Originally Posted by coksiw

If you think about it, Santa shouldn’t be invading houses and bringing gifts. He is old, and obese, and always exposed to cold weather. He would die of covid if he gets it.

It’s ok, Dr. Fauci went to the North Pole and vaccinated him prior to Christmas Eve.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucele...ore-christmas/

[coksiw]

Originally Posted by Nicodemus1968

It’s ok, Dr. Fauci went to the North Pole and vaccinated him prior to Christmas Eve.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucele...ore-christmas/

White privileges.

[Nicodemus1968]

Originally Posted by coksiw

White privileges.

Let’s not forget rich.

Rich, White privileges.

[n david]

The absurdity of 2020:

Dr. Fauci talking with kids and telling them that he vaccinated Santa...

Wolf Blitzer on CNN hosting a segment about NORAD "tracking" Santa and they zoomed in to show and mention that even Santa is wearing a mask...

Neil deGrasse Tyson tweeting that Santa has misgendered the reindeer because only female reindeer have antlers during the Christmas season...

[Evang.Benincasa]

Originally Posted by Originalist

Can't you see what poor hermeneutics you are promoting here?

Poor hermeneutics???

Your statement is a red herring.

Anyway, it is a Catholic mass which Protestants baptized into their religious practices. Anabaptists when distancing themselves from the Roman and Protestant churches refused to continue in the Roman practice. I find it sadly humorous, in a bleak sort of way. To watch defenders of the mass make their excuses why they continue to practice. I have family members who are Jewish, Roman and Greek churches, also atheists. My desire is not to make it up as we go along hoping that God is cool with it, or my relatives are going to give it a pass. When they ask good questions, they want even better answers.

[Evang.Benincasa]

Originally Posted by n david

The absurdity of 2020:

Dr. Fauci talking with kids and telling them that he vaccinated Santa...

Wolf Blitzer on CNN hosting a segment about NORAD "tracking" Santa and they zoomed in to show and mention that even Santa is wearing a mask...

Neil deGrasse Tyson tweeting that Santa has misgendered the reindeer because only female reindeer have antlers during the Christmas season...

My brother, this sadly is the new normal.

[Esaias]

Here are the facts:

Christmas is wholly a pagan holy day in celebration of Saturn. Saturn was a Roman personification of Baal, the ancient Canaanite fertility god, who was also the god of the Sun. Mithra (known in Rome as Sol Invictus, the Invincible Sun) is the Persian version of Baal. The Winter Solstice was the time of the "birth of the Sun God", celebrated anywhere from around December 20-January 5 or thereabouts. Eventually, December 25th was settled on. The holy day was simply part of a week or so long festive season (hence the whole "twelve days of Christmas").

Christmas is an ancient holy day of the Baal religion. It is part of Sun worship, the worship of the Sun god. (Yes, that's why you go to church every single SUN day, the Dies Soli, the Day of the Sun, which was also a major holy day in ancient Canaan in honour of Baal.)

"But, we practice the rites of Baal, Mithra, and Saturn in honour of Jesus! It's all about Jesus!"

But what does the BIBLE say?

Deuteronomy 12:30-32 KJV (30) Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. (31) Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods. (32) What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

It is expressly forbidden to worship God using pagan rites and customs!

[Esaias]

Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God

Thou shalt not do SO - meaning "in that manner". What manner? Enquiring after the pagan religious customs, as to how they worshipped their demon gods.

Thou shalt not do so UNTO THE LORD - you shall NOT take pagan religious customs and ADAPT THEM TO THE WORSHIP OF THE TRUE GOD. It is EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN. Repurposing pagan holy days, and ceremonies, to the worship of God, is SIN.

What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

God has ordained the worship He wants us to give Him. It is in the Bible. We are not allowed to "add" or "take away" from the worship He has ordained. If you think you can take pagan religious practices and offer them to God, if you think He accepts such vain will-worship, YOU ARE MISTAKEN. It is ABOMINABLE to God. He literally HATES it.

"Oh, but God hears all my prayers, even though I'm steeped in pagan traditions!"

2 Thessalonians 2:11-12 KJV (11) And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: (12) That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

God will make sure you believe lies and are damned, if you reject the truth of His Word.

[Esaias]

Exodus 31:13 KJV Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.

Exodus 13:6-10 KJV Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD. (7) Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters. (8) And thou shalt shew thy son in that day, saying, This is done because of that which the LORD did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt. (9) And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the LORD'S law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee out of Egypt. (10) Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year.

Holy Days and religious festivals are a sign, or token, of which god you really worship. If you are keeping the holy days of ancient pagan demons, THAT'S WHO YOU ARE WORSHIPPING. If you have been baptised into Christ, and yet you keep the holy days of satan, you are committing SPIRITUAL FORNICATION, HARLOTRY, and ADULTERY against your Saviour.

The Sabbaths of God were to be FOR A SIGN "upon the hand and ... between the eyes" (forehead) of God's people. It was a mark of ownership, covenant, fealty, loyalty, and belonging.

What do you think the following verses are referring to?

Revelation 13:16-17 KJV (16) And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: (17) And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Revelation 14:9-11 KJV And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, (10) The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: (11) And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.

The beast institutes false worship among the nations, and causes them to be marked in the hand and the forehead. John is seeing in vision a spiritual reality concerning the world and its inhabitants. Just as God has a "mark" on His people, in their foreheads and their hands, so does the beast, satan's earthly power and influence. Just as God's mark includes His Holy Sabbaths, the beast's mark includes his "holy days". Holy days, or religious festivals, repeating observances of set times, observed in commemoration of religious ideas and concepts, intended to pass on religious ideas from one generation to the next, are part of the MARK, either of God... or of satan.

Which one do YOU have?