That's Totally Outrageous!
A Catalog of Extreme Personal Perspectives.
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Christmas Apologies
Enough has been written about the pagan origins of most Christmas traditions to fill many books. Let’s not dwell on that, as anyone can verify the connections from an easy internet search.
It is so easy though, for a non-observance of the day to be interpreted as an assault on the traditional values of charity, generosity, peace, and goodwill, that I have chosen to be discrete about my abstention. Yet, for those who sincerely wish to restore “Christ to Christmas”, there are some difficult to impossible questions. Foremost would be, “when was he ever in it to begin with”?
But even setting that aside, how can we be so distracted with these imaginative innovations, when our cup runneth over with traditions to commemorate from our very own Bibles? If we observe the Sabbath day of rest from our labors once a week, then commemorate the Salvation from bondage in Egypt of the Children of Abraham in the spring of the year, our life only begins to fill with celebration. As we remember how our Rabbi Yahshua suffered and died on that Passover day so long ago, not for his own sins, but for those of his persecutors (which includes us) our hearts are saddened. But then they are filled with joy, as we read how he was in Yahweh’s mercy to us restored to life three days later. Should we not do as he commanded his disciples, rather than adopt vain traditions based on fear of the dark?
As the yearly cycle of the seven annual holy days that honor Yahweh progress, in each one we can see connections to Yahshua’s restoration ministry, as he himself observed them. Can there be anything so terribly wrong with obeying Yahweh the Father and his prophets and his instructions in the Bible? After we keep the approximately 65 holy days per year that Moses, Yahshua, and all the other faithful, holy prophets kept at Yahweh’s instructions, how can we find the time off work to double or even triple that number by adding a host of other religious and secular “holidays” to our schedule? It would be nice to be so independently wealthy…
Anyway, please forgive me if I do not match your enthusiasm in returning the seasonal greetings. My excuse is that I am suffering some SERIOUS holiday overload, and that something just had to give. So I got “Back to the Bible.” You can too; try it, you might like it!
Yahweh Bless!
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