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["Paul Hillman" <chris_hillman AT msn.com>]

Lynda,

The word Christmas derives from, "Christ's Mass", ......duh!! Sort of a 
Christian thingy??

The season was melded with the "pagan" winter-rituals, for the sake of 
enlightening the ignorant to the true meaning of the "seasons" as God had 
first created them to be.

>From the very beginning of the Creation God knew that a salvation would be 
>needed for those who would go astray from there first intended estates. The 
>whole creation reveals God and His designs and intentions. Pagans could see 
>these things in minor ways, but never understood their deeper meanings until 
>God sent His Son, to reveal it all.

Sure is hard, trying to teach Neo, or long-term pagans all of this!!

Paul Hillman
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Lynda<mailto:lurine AT softcom.net> 
  To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org<mailto:homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org> 
  Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 3:10 PM
  Subject: [Homestead] Wrong Answer, was Who started this ChristmasThing?


  That's a nice story, Paul, but is simply that a nice story.  Fact is, we
  have the Romans and Northern Europeans to thank for the whole gift giving
  thing and it had nothing to do with Jesus.