CHRISTMAS QUESTION

CHRISTMAS QUESTION

I posed the question: Is it possible to have authentic Christmas without Biblically personal resurrection?

Responses:

Several “Nope” or “No” sans any explanation as to why the responders believed so.

CK: Cant answer that until you explain to me what personal resurrection is??

DJK: I have never understood this question of “personal resurrection”. “Born again” or much better “born from above” is the word the Bible uses.

EBB4 in reply to CK & DJK: Ephesians [MKJV] 1:1; 2:1-3  Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus, and faithful in Christ Jesus. … And He has made you alive, who were once dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience; among whom we also had our way of life in times past, in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. [Col.2:13; 1Pet.3:18]

Jim wrote: Ed, "Authentic Christmas" without personal resurrection would mean your Christmas would be secular Xmas. On the other hand, I'm not sure what you mean by "personal resurrection" unless you are referring to being dead to sin and then being spiritually resurrected.   [I do. Jn.3:3; Eph.2:1-10]

Patty wrote: Good question, I’m not sure but I think that celebrating Christmas may lead to personal resurrection. Especially if we are talking about Jesus during the Christmas season.

Al wrote: Well our Lord Himself was resurrected and one day we also will be resurrected physically.  At this present time we have been resurrected in a newness of life but not yet bodily. Without faith it is impossible to please him [Heb.11:6], so in order for one to have an authentic Christmas one must have faith that Jesus Christ personally came here in the flesh. That He came for us by name as an individual and He shed his blood for the remission of our sins, He was crucified, He was raised from the dead, He ascended into heaven and is coming back for us one day. I say one can celebrate Christmas as a holiday, but without a genuine belief that Christ resurrected from the dead there is no true Christmas.

Anon.: John 11:25  Jesus said to her, I am the Resurrection and the Life! He who believes in Me, though he die, yet he shall live. …

Summarizing responses from several others; Without John 3:3 rebirth and the resultant “mind of Christ” (1Cor.2:1-16) we cannot spiritually clearly see the kingdom or King Jesus. Consequently those without John 3:3 personal resurrection celebrate a cultural Christmas sans trusting belief in the Word living (Jesus) and written (The Bible).  

One punster said without personal John 3:3 rebirth with its enlightened sight it is like worshipping an orange when you’ve never really seen or tasted one.

EBB4