Thank you Martin. You raise very important points.
I love celebrating the living Jesus Christ and having a close holy intimate relationship with Him each and every day moment by moment. I abhor compromise and going against the truths of worshipping heavenly father in spirit and in truth & according to His Holy Spirit, and appropriating the ways of the fallen corrupt carnal flesh and of worldly heathen infidel practices of the works & ways of the enemy, then passing them off as somehow Godly. And indeed we can work out roughly when Jesus was born by studiously reading and examining bible passages and understanding the months being referred to in such passages. I found this article breaks such down nicely: https://waterclear.tripod.com/messiahbirthdate.htm
thanks Hephzibah, it is very important to remember the truth at this time of year. Many people get positive benefits from celebrating the 25th of december, but mostly because it is a time for family to come together, and as such it can be difficult for those of us who are more serious about the meaning of the day, and where it's stupid practices come from, and don't want to have anything to do with it.
I have not kept for about 40 years, but even before then thought it was a really stupid excuse to have a day off work.
Hope it is not too cold for you in England at the moment, we have very high humidity and about 30+C, so very warm and sticky!
Thanks for that link, I had a quick look but will read it more tomorrow.
I read that article in full and it was great to see someone pointing out these truths.
What I had not identified was the relationship between the Feast of Dedication, Hannukah, and the birth of Christ, which most probably was the 25th of Dec, which is what I mention in my post on Constantine, but I will add something on Hannukah on that also.
As Hannukah is not a feast required in scripture I had not paid attention to it, but it seems to be an important day that God has identified, and even Jesus seemed to keep.
It also happens to be about the time of the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere (it is today here in Australia and it is 32C, which isn't too bad)
So it links in nicely with the pagan holidays giving Constantine the ability to switch them around.
Where did you get that link, I could not find any website it was associated with.
Thank you Martin. You raise very important points.
I love celebrating the living Jesus Christ and having a close holy intimate relationship with Him each and every day moment by moment. I abhor compromise and going against the truths of worshipping heavenly father in spirit and in truth & according to His Holy Spirit, and appropriating the ways of the fallen corrupt carnal flesh and of worldly heathen infidel practices of the works & ways of the enemy, then passing them off as somehow Godly. And indeed we can work out roughly when Jesus was born by studiously reading and examining bible passages and understanding the months being referred to in such passages. I found this article breaks such down nicely: https://waterclear.tripod.com/messiahbirthdate.htm
thanks Hephzibah, it is very important to remember the truth at this time of year. Many people get positive benefits from celebrating the 25th of december, but mostly because it is a time for family to come together, and as such it can be difficult for those of us who are more serious about the meaning of the day, and where it's stupid practices come from, and don't want to have anything to do with it.
I have not kept for about 40 years, but even before then thought it was a really stupid excuse to have a day off work.
Hope it is not too cold for you in England at the moment, we have very high humidity and about 30+C, so very warm and sticky!
Thanks for that link, I had a quick look but will read it more tomorrow.
Cheers for now, Martin
Hi H,
I read that article in full and it was great to see someone pointing out these truths.
What I had not identified was the relationship between the Feast of Dedication, Hannukah, and the birth of Christ, which most probably was the 25th of Dec, which is what I mention in my post on Constantine, but I will add something on Hannukah on that also.
As Hannukah is not a feast required in scripture I had not paid attention to it, but it seems to be an important day that God has identified, and even Jesus seemed to keep.
It also happens to be about the time of the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere (it is today here in Australia and it is 32C, which isn't too bad)
So it links in nicely with the pagan holidays giving Constantine the ability to switch them around.
Where did you get that link, I could not find any website it was associated with.
Cheers Martin