Subject: Re: [Homestead] Wrong Answer, was Who started this ChristmasThing?
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 18:11:20 -0600
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
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From: Lynda<mailto:lurine AT softcom.net>
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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.