| My family always has a Christmas tree
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| | end of December.Secondly, Luke 2:1,3
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| every year because it was the popular
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| | tells us that at the time of the birth of
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| thing to do. We have ornaments, holly
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| | Jesus Christ it was decreed that, "all
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| wreaths, presents and everything else
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| | the world would be taxed...And all went
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| that goes along with the Christmas
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| | to be taxed, every one into his own
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| celebration. I know it was borderline but
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| | city." This couldn't have taken place in
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| in that everyone liked it so much and
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| | the winter. Caesar Augustus, the ruler of
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| it's supposed to be in honor of our
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| | Rome, would certainly not call for such a
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| Lord's birthday I went along with it all
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| | taxing in the depth of winter. Travel at
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| these years. This year I have looked at
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| | this time of the year is extremely
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| the weight of Scriptural evidence that
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| | difficult; hence, it would be virtually
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| has caused me to reconsider how harmless
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| | impossible for everyone to comply with
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| and good this holiday is. Just where in
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| | the decree if it had been given then. The
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| The Bible does it tell us not to
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| | Lord Himself testified to the rigors of
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| celebrate Christmas?Christmas Not a Bible
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| | traveling in winter, for He told the
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| DoctrineIn the first place, Christmas is
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| | people to pray that their flight at the
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| not a Bible Doctrine. If our blessed Lord
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| | end of this age would not be in winter
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| had wanted us to celebrate His birthday,
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| | (Matthew 24:20).No one knows the exact
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| He would have told us when to celebrate
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| | day when Jesus Christ was born, but in
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| it and how to celebrate it. But Christ
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| | all the probability He was born sometime
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| never told anyone to celebrate His
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| | during September. We can be reasonably
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| birthday. Furthermore, we know from the
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| | sure of this because His earthly ministry
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| Bible and from church history that the
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| | lasted approximately 3 1/2 years, and He
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| apostles and the early church never
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| | was crucified on the 14th day of the
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| celebrated Christ's birthday.The Bible is
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| | month of Nisan, which corresponds to our
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| God's complete and final revelation to
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| | April (John 19:31, Leviticus 23:5). If we
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| man, and it tells us everything we need
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| | go back about 3 1/2 years to the time
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| to know for our spiritual lives (II
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| | when Jesus Christ was 30 years old - when
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| Timothy 3:16). We don't have to go
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| | He began His public ministry - we come to
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| outside the Bible for anything. God's
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| | the month of September. This was probably
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| Word tells us how we're to worship, how
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| | the month when our Lord was born into the
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| we're to give money for the support of
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| | world.Origin of ChristmasThousands of
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| the Lord's work, how to evangelize the
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| | years before Jesus Christ was born,
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| lost, how to observe the Lord's Supper
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| | heathens in every country observed
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| and everything else pertaining to the
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| | December 25th as the birthday of a god
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| Christian life. But not once in the Bible
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| | who was called the sun-god. Semiramis,
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| does God tell us to celebrate Christmas!
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| | the widow of Nimrod, was his mother. She
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| We're told to remember the Lord's death,
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| | claimed to be the queen of heaven. And
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| but nowhere are we told to celebrate His
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| | she had a son who was supposed to have
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| birth.God's people are supposed to be
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| | been born on December 25th; his name was
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| Bible people. We are supposed to live by
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| | Tammuz.According to all the heathen
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| the teaching of the God's Holy Word. So
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| | religions of that time, Tammuz had a
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| the very fact that Christmas is never
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| | miraculous birth; and for centuries his
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| mentioned in the Bible is sufficient
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| | birthday was celebrated with feasts,
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| reason for us not to have anything to do
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| | revelry and drunken orgies. The heathen
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| with it. But that's not all.Christ Not
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| | celebrated Tammuz birthday according to
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| born on December 25The second reason I
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| | the very example he set for them. He was
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| not to celebrate Christmas is that Christ
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| | the world's greatest lover of women,
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| was not born on December 25th.
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| | strong drink, dirty jokes and other
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| Notice:"And there were in the same
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| | sensual fun. It is said that he loved
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| country shepherds abiding in the field,
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| | everybody and that everybody loved him.
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| keeping watch over their flock by night."
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| | And it was on December 25th that all the
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| Luke 2:8Don't miss the point: the
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| | pagan religions celebrated the birthday
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| shepherds WERE IN THE FIELDS taking care
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| | of Tammuz, the son-god.This is all
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| of their flocks on the night Jesus Christ
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| | clearly brought out in Alexander Hislop's
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| was born. As the shepherds were watching
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| | great book, "The Two Babylon's". Any
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| their sheep, the message came to them of
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| | reputable encyclopedia will also verify
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| the birth of Jesus Christ.It's a well
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| | these facts.It's plain to see, isn't it,
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| known fact that December falls in the
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| | that Christmas is a pagan holiday that
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| middle of the rainy season in Palestine,
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| | came out of old pagan Babylon.Christmas:
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| and the sheep were kept in the fold at
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| | A Catholic HolidayThe fourth reason I not
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| that time of the year. The shepherds
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| | to celebrate Christmas is because
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| always corralled their flocks from
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| | Christmas is a Catholic holiday. Why
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| October to April. They brought their
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| | should I steal Christmas from the
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| sheep from the mountainsides and the
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| | Catholics? They got it from the pagans,
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| fields no later than October 15th to
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| | and I'm happy to let them keep it.Notice
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| protect them from the cold, rainy seasons
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| | what Encyclopedia Americana has to say
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| that followed that date. So the birth of
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| | about Christmas and Catholicism.
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| Christ could not have taken place at the
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