Christianity

Pagan's Festival

Submitted by Lo Yuk Fai on Sat, 2008-12-27 14:17
Pagan's Festival

Contrary to popular beliefs, there's no explicit mentioning in the Bible that Jesus Christ was born on 25th December.

Many theories were proposed over the last 20 or so centuries to reconcile the fact - Isaac Newton thought the date was selected to correspond with the winter solstice. A German Protestant thought it was originally the date of the Roman solar holiday, and thus a "paganization" of the church. Some scholars tried to establish the legitimacy by using various Biblical sources, and assumptions.

Amusing that's, an elder-day theologian stated that (in the days of early Church), "only sinners who make great rejoicings over the day on which they were born into this world below."

Pagan's Festival

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The Least

Submitted by Lo Yuk Fai on Thu, 2008-11-06 05:25
The Least

For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

- Matthew 25:42-43

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The Elder

Submitted by Lo Yuk Fai on Tue, 2008-10-14 23:12
The Elder

Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

- Psalms 71:9

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The Ant

Submitted by Lo Yuk Fai on Tue, 2008-07-22 20:59
The Ant

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

- Proverbs 6:6-8

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The Grass

Submitted by Lo Yuk Fai on Mon, 2008-06-23 13:09
The Grass

Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

- Matthew 6:30

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The Preserving

Submitted by Lo Yuk Fai on Wed, 2008-02-06 02:03
The Preserving

The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even forevermore.

- Psalms 121:8

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The Servants

Submitted by Lo Yuk Fai on Wed, 2007-05-16 01:47
The Servants

They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy servants.

- Psalms 119:91

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The Path

Submitted by Lo Yuk Fai on Fri, 2006-12-29 03:36
The Path

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

- Psalms 90:12

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The Cross

Submitted by Lo Yuk Fai on Tue, 2005-09-06 02:16
The Cross

Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?

For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

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In memory: Dr. Joanna Tse

Submitted by Lo Yuk Fai on Tue, 2005-09-06 00:21
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