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Putting back Christ this CHRISTMAS!

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

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If Christmas <Middle English Cristemas, from Old English Crīstes mæsse: Christ’s festival > is to be called depending on how it is practiced today, I could think of the names: Santamas <festival of santa>. Giftmas <festival of gifts>. Lightmas <festival of lights>. hmmmm… murag pangit paminawon. Dapat jud Christmas <Festival of Christ>.

Seriously.

It is apparent that a Christless Christmas has been dominating the modern-day yuletide. This season seems to have been stuffed with gift-giving, decorating, partying, festive eating, get-together, shopping.. what else? There is definitely nothing wrong with those stuff. There just have to be something more meaningful and something profound other than the celebration.

“A lot of the Christmas celebration is a nostalgic veneer that doesn’t really connect very deeply theologically,” says Mary Helene Rosenbaum, head of Dovetail Institute for Interfaith Family Resources, based in Boston, Ky. (USA Today)

Christmas, as it is very obvious, is for Christ- His coming from the highest of highs to the cursed cross.

Michael Horton, a professor of theology and an associate pastor shares in his book Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church. that Christmas without the specter of the cross, without awareness that this is a baby born to die for mankind’s sins, is a fancied-up fraud. (USA Today)

Christ has been relegated to the peripherae as Santa is being considered the ‘Father of Christmas.’

“Santa becomes a substitute for Christ. It’s hard to imagine Santa returning to judge the human race and consign anyone to hell. But that (judgment) is what Jesus came to save us from,” says Horton, who tells his children Santa works for Jesus.


 Credits to Mr. Arnie of Speaking Hammers, Buhangin Community Church.

 

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