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Text Box: CHRISTMAS MEANS CHRISTMAS IS ALL ABOUT ________ _____ IS THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS IS ______ CHRISTMAS IS _____ Most of what is presented to and accepted by the general public concerning Christmas has been created by and promulgated by individuals and groups who and which have only one concern regarding Jesus Christ. That concern is to make Jesus Christ totally and completely irrelevant in the life of every individual. They use some of the principals which evolve from Christ’s teachings in their Christmas presentations, but for the most part mention of Christ or reference to Christ is studiously avoided. “They” say: Christmas is all about peace - hogwash; Christmas is all about learning to get along together - garbage; The message of Christmas is tolerance - that is a big fat lie: The message of Christmas is peace and good will towards all men - No stupid. It is peace to men of goodwill; The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of giving - idiotic. Every one of the preceding concepts

Text Box: and all of the platitudes commonly mentioned in conjunction with Christmas are potential results from the event of Christmas but none of them have anything to do with, no nexus to or with, Christmas. The event of Christmas is the birth of God incarnate. Expanded: one of the Three Persons of The Blessed Trinity which is God, the Person we refer to as the Son and as the Word of God, became incarnate - which means He took on human nature - and was born. He became incarnate in the womb of the Ever Virgin Mary through her being overshadowed by the Holy Ghost who is God and the one whom we refer to as the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity. And to further simplify matters, His birth was a - actually the - virgin birth - His mother was a virgin before His incarnation, all through her pregnancy with Him, and even during and after His birth, and remains a virgin even to this very day and will always be a virgin. It is a very simple matter when one contemplates it. The fact that this is so foreign to any human experience, ever, makes it difficult to formulate questions about it. But it is a simple matter. The name of this individual who has always existed of Himself in His divine nature and Who began existence in His human nature at a the instant of His conception (which

Text Box: is a definite instant in time) is Jesus Christ and while He is but one Person He has both a complete and total divine nature and a complete and total human nature. The reason for His incarnation, birth, life, teaching, example, passion, death, and resurrection is His being the perfect sacrificial victim which enabled each individual to become reconciled with God by that sacrifice making atonement for the sins of each individual who seeks reconciliation in accordance with the methods and system established by that very same Jesus Christ God. Obviously Jesus is very loving, compassionate, tender, forgiving, possessing all of the nice characteristics commonly associated with Him. But He is not tolerant. He will usually allow a person to do whatever it is they desire to themselves but that does not mean He grants eternal happiness to those who ignore Him or His requirements or who make no real attempt to learn His instructions and to live in accordance with His instructions. If anyone thinks Jesus is “all about peace,” that individual should contemplate hell and if they find any peace in hell they have not contemplated hell. If anyone, “can not believe a good and all loving God would send anyone to a place like the traditionally depicted hell,” that individual is calling the one, true, good all loving God a liar because that is exactly the fate which God Himself has proclaimed for those who fail to make themselves acceptable to Him. Go ahead. Believe those who misdirect you from the truth about Christmas and go to hell. God gave you free will so you could be as intelligent and as smart or as stupid and as foolish as you wish. Or believe God, worship Him instead of yourself, learn His instructions and follow them as best you can, and have a chance of obtaining the benefits of Christmas. +

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