Do you research before you write?

St.John 21:25 might fit the bill.

We don't know much about Jesus' childhood. I do find St. Luke 2:51 exceedingly interesting.

After the Blessed Virgin and Joseph found Him in the Temple, "and He went down with them and came to Nazareth and was obedient to them; and His mother kept all these things in her heart."

Here the Gospel sums up Jesus' life in Nazareth in three words, He was "obedient to them".

Do you research before you write?

Most definitely, but I still find that research is never ending. Today, one might think one has a great answer to a question, and tommorrow one might find a better answer and so on. I used to have a lot of questions but then I began to ask God about things that were bothering me, instead of asking forums all the time. Your question about the birthdays was interesting and it led to a whole gamut of ideas that took quite a bit of reading. It is clear that birthdays were celebrated by Pharoah and Herod, and the Jehovah's Witnesses use this to insist that birthdays are evil etc. I normally try to answer the question as simply as possible and often that is not enough. Jesus is waiting for your questions.

Love,
Aeryck.

St.John 21:25 might fit the bill.

I agree. Seeing this is the last sentence of John's Gospel, it is one that was foremost in my mind.

Here the Gospel sums up Jesus' life in Nazareth in three words, He was "obedient to them".

Jesus was about his Father's business and so aught we to be perfect as our heavenly Father is perfect. (Phil. 2:5-11)

Aeryck.

Celebrating the birth of a child is one thing I was referring to birthdays (beginning with 1st birthday).

I am having trouble understanding the fault of celebrating a birthday, because it may or may not be documented in the Bible. The fact that it may or may not have pagan origin? To him that esteemeth something is wrong to him it is wrong. It almost seems like the allowance of the forbidding is nothing more than legalism.

It appears that God established a birthday of sorts for His people when He led them out of bondage....

"This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.... and this day shall be unto you a memorial: and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations: ye shall keep it a feast by ordinance for ever." Exodus 12: 2 & 14

This deliverance from Egypt was comparable to a new birth the were delivered from the bondage of the enemy and God chose them as His people, not because they were mighty or righteous, but He set His love upon them and called them His children. Every year they were to celebrate this new birth of sorts and to remember where God had brought them from.

hamartano

In case you didn't notice I asked you a question that yes I already knew the answer but to get you and others to research. Your response was ill received and unwarranted. It's no wonder people treat you poorly. You want respect you gotta stop treating people like they are idiots.

In case you didn't notice I asked you a question that yes I already knew the answer but to get you and others to research.

Help me understand Adventure -Dude the problems with birthday. Did you see my comments above? Why birthdays?

hamartano

In case you didn't notice I asked you a question that yes I already knew the answer but to get you and others to research.

So you say. Loaded questions are devisive and remind me of the carving style of the Scribes and Pharisees, who tried to entrap the Lord. Shame on you.

Your response was ill received and unwarranted.

Well, if that is all you were trying to establish, then perhaps you should start your own threads. Generally it is polite to ask a question and then express what you know instead of thinking that your answer is the only correct one. (It seems all you are interested in is sowing seeds of discord, O Wormwood.)

It's no wonder people treat you poorly.

Now there is an old English expression. One thing you will come to discover is that you cannot please all of the people all of the time and neither should one be so puffed up to think that you can.

You want respect you gotta stop treating people like they are idiots.

Until you actually begin to own your questions, by presenting what you know, you will simply be viewed as another 'Great Pretender'.

Aeryck.

Hamartano,
I don't think you will get much out of A-D, then again it would be nice to read something more than one-liner-wisecracks from our veritable scholar of silence.

Aeryck.

The head of John the Baptist was the first birthday present ever recorded in the Bible.

Mat 14:6 But when Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod.
Mat 14:7 Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she would ask.
Mat 14:8 And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger.
Mat 14:9 And the king was sorry: nevertheless for the oath's sake, and them which sat with him at meat, he commanded it to be given her.
Mat 14:10 And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison.
Mat 14:11 And his head was brought in a charger, and given to the damsel: and she brought it to her mother.

Please explain how you came to that conclusion ?

Aeryck.

Um, she came to that conclusion because that's what it says, Aeryck - in the part you just posted. You're so dense that it makes me giggle.

On the larger topic: You can't do it if the Bible doesn't say it, and you can't do it if Jesus didn't do it and have it recorded in his perfect, infallible book.

In other words: None of you retards can ever take a shit again, because it doesn't talk about Jesus taking a shit in the perfect, infallible Bible.

In other words: None of you retards can ever take a shit again, because it doesn't talk about Jesus taking a shit in the perfect, infallible Bible.

SanChonino brings up the train of thought I was headed, not the relieving the body of excrement, but the liability of the believer, just because it is 'not' clearly stated in the bible as being right or wrong, how should the believer handle it?

For instance we are talking about Christmas the birth of Jesus Christ. Is celebration of ones birthday 'unbiblical'? I realize there are different doctrinal positions on this, but I am wondering why it is considered 'non-biblical' because it is not clearly mentioned in the bible that "we should celebrate annually the birth of an individual"?

It would be kind of like saying that a Christian is forbidden to use a Norelco electric shaver, because we have no evidence of anyone in the bible doing it and the Norelco shaver (have, just using in a hypothetical setting) was invented by a pagan. And to purchase a Norelco shaver supports the pagans that work for Norelco thereby prospering them financially this Christmas Season. And to top it all off they are not even going to say 'Merry Christams' (again used hypothetically) to the participants of the Christmas Holiday when they shop this Christmas HolyDay........ but they will say thank you for buying this Norelco electric shaver while you are celebrating your Saviour's Birthday; even-though there is no evidence that He was born on this day.

hamartano

On the larger topic: You can't do it if the Bible doesn't say it, and you can't do it if Jesus didn't do it and have it recorded in his perfect, infallible book.

That is not what I am saying SanChonino..... that was why I posed the question- what is biblically wrong with celebrating one birthday?

hamartano

I wasn't saying you were, I'm saying the mindset of the infallibility of the Bible is laughable.

I'm saying the mindset of the infallibility of the Bible is laughable.

What do you mean when you say 'it is fallible'?

.H.