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Admin	People should know the truth: Posted : 7 Dec, 2010 09:51 AM Santa Claus OR Satan Claws: Why are Christians celebrating a pagan day this time of year. I thought we were to be proclaimimg the Gospel of Yeshua. 1Pe 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: Post Reply
View Profile History	People should know the truth: Posted : 7 Dec, 2010 07:07 PM We missed the Celebration 3 months ago, but look at all the snow this time of the year. White means so much in the Bible! On the other hand, we can now see that if Jesus were born on September 11th as Luke indicates, then Jesus would have been conceived around December 8th in 4 BC. The now mysterious Mary dates fit Jesus quite well. How might this have happened? In the late 4th century, in early 380 AD, Pope Damasus was endeavoring to force all Christians in the Roman Empire to yield to his authority. He got the Emperor to issue an edict requiring them to practice the religion of Rome. We know that it is about this time the Christmas midnight Mass was first celebrated and December 25th first identified as a Catholic holy day. It is said Damasus was seeking to lure the people away from pagan rites honoring the birth of the sun god at midnight by compelling Catholic attendance at a memorial in honor of Christ's death, in the Mass. The people confused this Mass with the pagan solar birth rituals conducted at that same time. Gradually, the Christ-Mass became associated with the Nativity. Meanwhile, the true feast around September 8th, which naturally honored Mary in giving birth to Jesus, was converted into a day commemorating her own birth, and an old holyday honoring the conception of Jesus was converted into a day commemorating the conception of Mary on December 8th. Strangely, there is still widespread belief among non-Catholics that this is the day Jesus was conceived -- a possible lingering remembrance of the original meaning of this date. Post Reply
View Profile History	People should know the truth: Posted : 8 Dec, 2010 06:55 AM @ everyone: Where does this Scripture fit in with Christian Theology of Yeshuas birth. Ecc 7:1 A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. Besides Yeshua was probably born in the fall.. Post Reply

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