#40221 - 12/22/11 08:21 AM
Is christmas a biblical observance?
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Almighty Yahweh thunders in the Book of Jeremiah not to observe practices like Christmas tree worship: "Learn not the way of the heathen... For the customs of the people are vain: for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not," Jeremiah 10:2-4. Allfather! That's some good reading right there. Source: .pdf viewable.
Edited by 5th (12/22/11 08:25 AM)
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#40229 - 12/22/11 10:29 AM
Re: Is christmas a biblical observance?
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I'd feel uncomfortable using the JW's as a source (after all, they're just using a different interpretation of the same book of hooey to justify their hooey), but it is interesting to note the Pilgrims and the Puritans banned celebrating Christms.
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#40237 - 12/22/11 11:28 AM
Re: Christmas in the Bible.
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You're arguing with the wrong dude. It's your christian brethren who say your going to hell. Funny thing is the whole diatribe in the .pdf sounds a lot like iKayak. Maybe she thinks your going to hell too?
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#40240 - 12/22/11 12:00 PM
Re: Christmas in the Bible.
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You're arguing with the wrong dude. You are the one who posted the question, dude!
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#40247 - 12/22/11 12:35 PM
Re: Christmas in the Bible.
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You're right. Then I posted the answer your christian brethren offered. Seemed like a closed conversation. Stash just pointed out his reservations as to where I got the answer to the question from. Yes, the birth of Jesus is in the Bible. Not sure where the JW's dispute that in their .pdf. Maybe you read it wrong. But if you want to argue it and argue over the the "right" answer, I'm pretty sure the JW's got a hall in GH somewhere. Have at it 
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#40248 - 12/22/11 12:42 PM
Re: Christmas in the Bible.
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You are funny, you ask about Christmas Trees, and then I answer your question, then you say you don't care about Christmas Trees.
What a waste of time!
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#40249 - 12/22/11 12:46 PM
RE: Celebrating christmas send you to hell.
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You are funny, you ask about Christmas Trees, and then I answer your question, then you say you don't care about Christmas Trees.
What a waste of time!
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Huh, Where is "my" christmas tree question? I see no christmas tree question.
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#40252 - 12/22/11 01:45 PM
Why do you care?
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Enough is enough from you.
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#40257 - 12/22/11 05:28 PM
Re: Is christmas a biblical observance?
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Whew! Good thing that all my decorated trees are artificial, in rotating stands, and done in red and white! It's also a good thing that I don't worship them. Yup, they go back in the boxes and up in the attic on January 7th...no thought given to them until the weekend after Thanksgiving Day.
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