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"Christmas Before Christ?"

Q: I just read your article, "Christmas Before Christ?" I understand your point of view on the problem of celebrating Christmas but would like to make a couple of comments.

I wish that Dec. 25 was Christ's birthday and that all the symbols of Christmas were Christian in origin. But I realize they are not. I would never be in favor of compromising with this world or corrupting our worship of God to please or convert anyone.

When I read your article two passages of Scripture came to mind:
1Corinthians 8:4-6 and Romans 14. Within my church and family we do use the time of Christmas to celebrate the birth of our Lord. This is a special time for us, a time of remembrance. I think it is better to celebrate the birth of Jesus at this time than never to celebrate it at all.

There are many of us who have never considered that celebrating Christmas was worshiping a false god of any kind, for we know that all other gods are false. We worship God in spirit and in truth; our consciences are clean before Him. I am not trying to convince you that I am right but giving you another side of this. If my rendering of the two scriptures that I mentioned deal with this, I wonder if any young converts were caused to stumble because of this article.

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