A Thought Just Occurred To Me
It has been a few years now since I had my seminal experience with regard to my understanding of God's opinion of Christmas. It has also been over the same number of few years that I have been wrestling and coming to terms with the idea that I may possess the gift of prophecy.
It is also during these years I have also been exposed to a song by Craig Ginn, a song with the lyric, "and we called the prophet a fool". What is my point? I am not saying I am correct about Christmas, but I do need to follow my own conscience; however what is to say that people do not need to stop, look, and inquire of God?
I feel like I am called a fool, or in the words of my father, "A God Damned Fool." I find myself having to cut myself off from fellowship because the alternative is to have something I have concluded God calls an abomination shoved down my throat.
I reiterate again, I am not saying I am absolutely correct. However am wondering if God has called me to this to draw attention to the fact most are more in love with tradition than scripture. We have no Biblical basis for the celebration and every year the religious seem to make a greater effort than the year before to "Keep Christ in Christmas" while I am asking, "Does Christ even want to stay in Christmas?" One of the biggest errors that reformist (meaning virtually all Protestant) thought levels at Catholicism is that they place tradition above scripture and so now I am asking, are "Protestants becoming Traditionalists like the Catholics?" Or to put it another way, "Are the Protestants becoming what they protest they are not?"
posted by rene the rugrat at 11:46 AM
2 Comments:
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To answer your question, yes many are.
Though many christians are also now caught in this other way of thinking that says lets make a self help seminar out of service, sprinkle it with some Bible verses, interpreted through a humanist filter and applied with psychology. Many people do not even see that this is what churches are doing.
It's made it challenging for me to go to church but I was reminded recently of the following verse from Hebrews 10:25, "not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near" We need fellowship but we also need to help guide each other away from false teachers and churches and not be afraid to stand up and call out the lies.
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