christmas has NOTHING to do with the Jesus of the Bible

You understand much wopik in this discussion we are having. Where are you picking-up Paul adheres to the Sabbath? Galatians 4:11 leads us to believe otherwise, for Paul is baffled (do they understand about Grace) by the Galatians for they still wish observe days, times, months, and years. Christian faith, ituttut

 

Merry Christmas, and Happy Holidays. Santa Clause is coming to town.

 

Hello Christian friend. When is Your birthday? Christian faith, ituttut

 

QUOTE]Originally posted by NarnianSoldier:
if "all things are lawful" (1 Corinthians 6:12), then is celebrating this momentous occasion prohibited? [/QUOTE]

"All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

The Catholic church is a powerful church for all her departed children still mind their "mommy".

If Christians are going to have a "Holy Day" of gift giving then just call it the "gift giving season" for it is much better to give than receive. Then give to the poor, the downtrodden, the orphans, the homeless, and give out the Pure Word of God to the Lost.

We only fool ourselves, when we think it is just fine to "add to the Word of God". Christian faith.

 

Words of wisdom. Christian faith, ituttut

 

Didn't Paul just get finished speaking to the Jews in the synogogue - preaching God and Jesus to them - on the Sabbath Day, "and when the congregation was broken up.....Paul persuaded them to continue in the GRACE of God" (acts 13:42-43.

The Gentiles wanted Paul to speak to them the next Sabbath Day (acts 13:42).

And the next Sabbath Day, almost the whole city came to hear Paul preach the word of God (acts 13:44.


When a governor pardons some one from death row, to me that is what GRACE is -- unmerited pardon.

That doesn't do away with laws. That person who was pardoned by the governor better not commit any more crimes or he will be back in jail again. </font>[/QUOTE]Where else would Paul go to preach to his brethren. Paul has the authority to preach to the Jew also, not just to the Gentile. The Christian church has just gotten started, and at this time Christian’s meet in homes. They did not go to synagogues or the Temple for they were not allowed in the Temple. Paul went to where the lost of Israel went every Sabbath. He is preaching the gospel of the Cross of Jesus to his people, preaching the Christian message of grace through faith, without any works.

Paul preached on the Jewish Sabbath Day, on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.

”But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter,” Romans 7:6. Jesus said the Law and the Prophets were preached until John the Baptist. Today it is by grace that we are saved Through the faith of Jesus Christ. We are not under the curse of the law, for we have been made righteous in Him.

Gotta get to bed. Talk later. Christian faith, ituttut

 

the law is not a curse. Paul called the law, holy, just and good (Romans 7:12).

Paul served the law of God (Romans 7:25).

Hello wopik. The law is holy, just and good, but we are not. We are in the Body of
Christ through faith, and not the law for we can never be justified by the law. It is Christ that is righteous, and we in Him are made righteous.

Galatians 3:10-14, ”For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. 11. But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith. 12. And the law is not of faith: but, the man that doeth them shall live in them. 13. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: 14. That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith."

We today are OSAS as in the Spirit we serve the law of God, but as long as we are in these bodies, we remain in sin as that is our nature we acquired from Adam, and Eve.

yes, some Christians did meet in their private homes (Rom. 16:5).

But there were also Christians in the synagogues on the Sabbath day. Paul was headed to Damasus, to the synagogues in Damascus, in hopes of finding Christians there -- in the synagogues on the Sabbath day:

Meanwhile Saul, still
breathing threats
and murder against
the disciples of the Lord,
went to the high priest
and requested letters
from him to the synagogues in Damascus,
so that if he found any
who belonged to the Way,
either men or women,
he might bring them
as prisoners to Jerusalem (acts 9:1-2, Holman Christian Standard Bible). </font>[/QUOTE]Saul was rounding up those of Israel. Saul was a Pharisee and would not have any thing to do with a Gentile dog. This is how the children of God viewed the heathen. Matthew 15:22-28 shows Jesus was not interested in any but His own, and the Apostles were no different. Jesus, or His Apostles, never approached a Gentile as to salvation, and had no desire to be associated with them in any way.

The first scattering of those of the Pentecostal church was done by none other than Saul/Paul. He was the instigator at the stoning of Stephen, and he didn’t let up of rounding up the Jew (that accepted the imposter Jesus called the King of the Jews) for jailing or death. Paul had papers in hand from the house of Israel, the Sanhedrin; to now go get the Jew’s in towns of the Gentile’s. Paul, of course with help had forced (the Apostle’s were hid and never left Jerusalem for a good number of years) most of the Pentecostal church out of Jerusalem, and Israel. Saul was out to destroy those Jew’s that worshipped a “false god”. Paul knew no Gentile would ever be allowed into the Temple of God, so Paul was not concerned with the “dogs”.

We find that no Gentile had been preached to or at (proselytes yes), in that day, and not for a number of years afterwards as witnessed in Acts 9 (Paul is to go to the Gentile); then in Acts 10 God forces Peter to preach to the first Gentile, verse 28, and when we read carefully verses 43 and 44, we see for the first time the way the heathen are saved. After this one time of preaching to a Gentile, scripture indicates Peter never preached to another Gentile, and neither did any of the other Apostles, James included, as long as the Temple and Jerusalem stood. Christian faith, ituttut