Featured Should Christians celebrate Christmas?

Not at all. Virtually every civilization believed it til the Greex of the 6th century BC proved otherwise by sailing ships over the horizon both ways in sight of crowds.

Yes, from the beginning of the creation of this present arrangement. He made male and female in prehistoric life as well.

The Great Unconfromity is simply gaps between different types of rock layers, where one type ends & another begins.It supports an OLD earth much-more than a young earth. It's different all over the world. Living in Appalachia, I can see such gaps every time I travel a road cut thru a hill. While the Appalachians & Alleghenies are quite-old, there's evidence across the continent of older mountain ranges that have been completely eroded away.

"Young-earthers" use SELECTIVE "EVIDENCE", while ignoring the mountains of REAL evidence that prove them wrong. Remember, the first verses of Genesis show God was then preparing to work on an EXISTING EARTH. His Spirit moved over the face of THE DEEP.

While God coulda made everything INSTANTLY, there's massive evidence that he didn't, and He's left us mucho evidence to see that. Time for you young-earthers to take an unbiased look at that evidence!

 

Yes, almost life of the previous arrangement before this one was extinct. Only a few critters survived, most of them fish, such as the coelacanth. or water critters such as alligators, as well as some insects such as roacher & dragonflies.

"Examining" , but not COMPREHENDING, instead applying imagination, opinion, & guesswork to it.

There are SEVERAL unconformity layers seen in the Grand Canyon alone, let alone in other gorges & mountains where roads have been cut.

Yes, but it ALREADY EXISTED. You conveniently skip that fact.

Sorry, but you YECs are bringing a knife to a gun fight.

 

I haven't read the thread, but I wanted to post on the topic. It all depends how we celebrate. We can celebrate as a family, as a church family, with the opportunities provided by special services & holiday time. I hate the emphasis of so many occasions on snow & Santa Claus - I liked the idea of him becoming a Calvinist & only giving to good children!

At a Carol Service this evening, the preacher introduced "O come all ye faithful" saying words to the effect of "You don't have to be faithful... "

I suggest the alternative -

O come all you sinners,
weary, heavy laden,
come to the Saviour born at Bethlehem.
Come in repentance,
find new life in Jesus,​

O come let us adore him...​

 

OF COURSE they were present at their own creation ! !

No mention of the world before God created the present arrangement because there were no people to worship Him in Jurassic Park.

 

Yes, A&E were present at their own creation! No-brainer there!

Another indicator of old earth: large coral reefs. Even the healthiest such reef grows very slowly, and even as one such as the Great barrier reef grew at max rate all its existence, it has to be at least 25K years old.

Again, that's only one indicator of an old earth. That's a FACT, not opinion & guesswork such as YEs use.

 

Thanks, I will watch after Christmas - we will be away a few days. I am not familiar with either. Where we are, radio reception - including digital is poor so I listen to tapes - I've made a huge collection over the years. Music & radio programmes. The only consitent radio quality is through the TV. I'll have to enquire about satelite radio.

 

Some SR is great; other is porn.

Can't be of much help, as I have the musical ability of a turtle, & our church doesn't do music. The pastor sometimes plays a recording of "Just As I Am" or "The Old Rugged Cross" during altar call, but that's about it for us. No Christmas music.

 

OF COURSE I do. Don'tcha believe A&E were present at their own creation soon as it happened?

 

EASY! There are many clues & mucho evidence indicating such. I've presented just a tiny portion of them.

Now, how did all that evidence get there? BY GOD'S PROVIDENCE, of course. And it's by His providence that we are able to decipher those clues. remember, God said that in the last days, knowledge & travel will greatly increase.

Luke 19:40 He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.”

And in this case the very stones "cried out" evidence for us.(Yes, I realize jesus was not speaking about this in that Scripture!)

 

Back to the THEME of the thread:

Observing Christmas is up to the individual. One should follow Paul's guideline & not criticize anyone else who observes, non-observes, or observes differently from you, according to that person's own beliefs.

While jews don't observe it, the merchants among them certainly take advantage of the season, as they do in Bethlehem.