Did God command us not to do Christmas?

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4enlightment said:
Matthew 5:43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’

Matthew 5:44 But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,


To me this sound like acceptance...But since you are law-keepers then let's see if you can keep this one that is the above verses. The minute that someone have slapped you on one cheek, you'll start pulling out a knife at that person that had slapped you. So do you want God's acceptance.
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The quoting of these two verses does not change His name from JEALOUS to DO WHAT YOU WANT.
Does one think the sinners remain in sins after dining with the Messiah?
Was the Messiah hated because He spoke the truth?
What's that false accusation of pulling out a knife about? Did I speak something against your ideology? Do you realize you are speaking exactly like whom you want to speak against?
 
chubbena said:
The quoting of these two verses does not change His name from JEALOUS to DO WHAT YOU WANT.
Does one think the sinners remain in sins after dining with the Messiah?
Was the Messiah hated because He spoke the truth?
What's that false accusation of pulling out a knife about? Did I speak something against your ideology? Do you realize you are speaking exactly like whom you want to speak against?
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Let look at it this way; Say if You were dying on a cross, while people were gambling to see who can keep the keys to your car. Those people will look like that they doesn't have any sense at all; and can someone goes into a hospital for the mental ill and tell the patients that they don't know how to do things the right way? But if someone does that, they are arguing with their own peers. A mental ill patient can see another mental patient problem, because they think it is normal. But God said that we all need a doctor, but we say," that we aren't crazy, but that person over there is". So if we claim that we have sense, then are guilt remains. But if you are sick and like hanging things on a tree, then God over look it, because He know that He is walking around a hospital for the mentally challenge looking for the ones that admit that they aren't perfect, and that they need a doctor. Once a person admitted that they are sick in the head, God will prepare them for treatment. So if I were you, I'll just let the patients hang utensils on the tree to make the tree look pretty, but don't be like the other patients that come and knock down the patients pretty tree.
 
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Hashe said:
The answer is no - God didn't command anything like that.
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When you read the scripture given in this post so you know God does not approve of mixing pagan ideas in with God's ideas, it is right before your eyes, how can you say that turning a pagan holiday into a Christian holiday is something God didn't command us not to do? I was unaware that was how Christmas came about for years and years, now I am aware of it.
 
isfreewilltrue said:
So you don't think Christmas trees fall under the category of false Idol.
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No, I do not. By your reasoning everything in this world must be considered a false idol. What is the difference between a false idol and a true idol?

Is a wife decorating a dinner table with flowers for her familiy setting up an idol on an altar?
 
I haven´t read about Jesus cuttind His x-mas tree neither hearing about Santa traveling to those deserts (too COLDt for them). ;)
 
RedTent said:
When you read the scripture given in this post so you know God does not approve of mixing pagan ideas in with God's ideas, it is right before your eyes, how can you say that turning a pagan holiday into a Christian holiday is something God didn't command us not to do? I was unaware that was how Christmas came about for years and years, now I am aware of it.
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Acts 10:14 “Surely not, Lord!” Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean (Pagan's food).” But Jesus didn't got mad at peter for disobeying a direct command, and it was hard for them also to mingle with the Pagan's as well. When people celebrate Christmas, they doesn't bow down to the tree, and God isn't a stiff-neck person that only look at what you are physically doing, but He listen to our heart and see what a person truly has meant.
 
I can't even think why God's people would even want to get involved with something that is not even true. Satan is doing away with everything that represents and testifies of God in His creation and he's replacing it with a form of godliness. These forms of godliness teach us nothing of God or His plan. They distort the truth with a religious tint and we fall for it. Christmas is not Jesus' birthday, Jesus did not rise from the tomb on Easter morning, Forty days of Lent has nothing to do with God but everything to do with weeping for Tammuz, Sunday observance is not the Lord's day nor has it ever been the Lord's day, Jesus didn't die on Good Friday, there is no secret rapture and people don't die and go to heaven or to a burning place under the earth called, hell. All these beliefs and practices came into God's people through Babylon via the papacy and has replaced all of God's ways and has distorted all of God's plan. This is why God is calling His people to come out of Babylon. Did you notice how God is calling them His people? This means His people are involved in these things and they don't even know it. Oh how clever and crafty the Serpent is.
 
4enlightment said:
Acts 10:14 “Surely not, Lord!” Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean (Pagan's food).” But Jesus didn't got mad at peter for disobeying a direct command, and it was hard for them also to mingle with the Pagan's as well. When people celebrate Christmas, they doesn't bow down to the tree, and God isn't a stiff-neck person that only look at what you are physically doing, but He listen to our heart and see what a person truly has meant.
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Do you think our heart and what is done is disconnected? God is patient and long suffering. But if we do what God has said not to do, then our heart has led us to that doing.
 
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