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That's a red herring logical fallacy. We don't need a command from Jesus to celebrate his birthday. An example is all that is needed to do it. I provided documentation for such. Providing a date on which to celebrate Jesus' birth is irrelevant. We do not have a date on which the men from the...

None of this documentation (without discussion by you) provides evidence for rejecting the celebration of Jesus' birth. In the evidence I provided above, there were celebrations at the first Christmas so annual celebrations do not contravene this tradition: The angel announcing Christ's birth...

That is a horrible put down that is not appropriate for this Christian forum of grace and consideration. I urge you to apologise to this brother in Christ for what you stated and inferred. Oz

Richard, Luke 18:9-14 (ESV) refutes your position. The Gospel of justification by faith for Gentiles was preached explicitly by Jesus: So what is the 'deadly error' in this? Oz

To all, I encourage you not to miss this Christmas treat at the Smithsonian (10 December 2015, YouTube). Oz

Stan, This is going way too far in putting down the other person, for these reasons: To claim that opposition to celebration of Christmas is a 'false teaching' is stretching it somewhat. I don't agree with it (as I've expressed my view in this thread), but it is a view that some espouse that...

Skitnik, You are speaking about Stan's post so your comment here is gossiping about what he said. Please address him directly, The context is the younger widows, 'And if they are on the list, they will learn to be lazy and will spend their time gossiping from house to house, meddling in other...

Stan, This is a comment that is flaming the other person. When you make an inflammatory comment, you are likely to provoke antagonism, as is evident in this thread. I urge you to apologise to Skitnik for this language. Oz

To the point of your post here, there was only one other person who had replied, Stan. Yet, you have the audacity to speak of 'some know it all arrogant experts'. This is gossip when you address your comment to somebody else and not to Stan. You have also misrepresented by using the plural 'all...

hereto, You seem to have forgotten what took place to celebrate the first Christmas. 1. The appearance of the angel of the Lord with the glory of the Lord to announce the birth of Christ to the shepherds (Lk. 2:10-12 ESV). 2. The response of the angels at the announcement of Christ's birth...

Skitnik, You'll need to do better than this with future posts. You provided not one piece of documentation to support your views of pagan holydays, etc. If you are going to convince me, you'll need to come up with evidence, not the assertions you provided here. I urge you to consider the...

Stan, Leading Greek exegete and commentator, the late Leon Morris, in his commentary on John 3:16 wrote: Oz Works consulted Morris, L 1971. The Gospel according to John (New International Commentary Series). Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

Stan, I can't see this gap ever being bridged between Arminianism (as understood) and Calvinism (as understood by TULIP) as the ULI of TULIP is incompatible with the teaching on apostasy (as in Heb 6:4-6 ESV). There is also the challenge of the differences among Arminians, Classical/Reformed...

KingJ, It is not now working for me either when I give the link as: http://www.ccel.org/ccel/arminius/works1.iii.vii.html It could be that you need to log in at http://www.ccel.orgto gain access to Arminius' works. Let's see if we can locate the article on another site. Here goes.... Here you...

Wormwood, I think we need to be careful about the language we use about Augustine's view of perseverance of the saints. He did not use the OSAS language and concepts. That's a modern view. This is what Augustine wrote (translated into English). It is from his writing, 'On the Predestination of...

KingJ, The link is: http://www.ccel.org/ccel/arminius/works1.iii.vii.html You can copy that link into your browser. Oz

King J, From the link that I gave to what Jacob Arminius wrote on 'The Perseverance of the Saints', we can understand that Arminius says that those who have been grafted into Christ by faith, have the continuing ministry of the grace of the Holy Spirit, are preserved by Christ from falling...

And we might get to fulfill Matt 25:31-46 (NLT): “But when the Son of Man[a] comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit upon his glorious throne. 32 All the nations[b] will be gathered in his presence, and he will separate the people as a shepherd separates the sheep from...

Logabe, Your accusations against me are false. I am committed to the exegesis of the inerrant Scriptures. I showed you how your view deviated from Scripture and this is how you come back to me. You create a straw man by accusing me of reading from Zondervan Publishing House instead of the...

Pamella, Our English language has similar kinds of nuances for faith. Pamella, In English we also have a number of nuances for the meaning of faith: Christianity Board has a 'Statement of Faith'. This is a statement of the fundamental beliefs of Christian theology accepted as a foundation for...