Discuss holiday items, ideas, and cheer! | | One night with Jesus in Bethlehem | | I hope I can write a song - about this title- Jesus became man. He was a child born of a virgin. There was no room for Him. He was born in a barn - or a house for the animals. The shepherds - the children who watch over the sheep at night - came him and sung in praise. Alleluia! | |
| | | Christmas in Bethlehem | | Islamic militants may be in charge, but that doesn't mean there won't be Christmas in Bethlehem this year. The cash-strapped Hamas government is promising $US50,000 ($A64,000) to dress up Jesus's traditional birthplace for Christmas, more than twice the amount spent in previous years.Yet even the extra cash, if Hamas pays up, may not be enough to bring Christmas cheer to Bethlehem, hit hard by the past six years of Israeli-Palestinian fighting. The biblical town is now walled in by Israel's West Bank separation barrier, poverty is deepening and Christians are leaving Bethlehem in droves. Palestinian Tourism Minister Joudeh Morkos has modest expectations.Last year, only about 2,500 foreign visitors came to the city at Christmas, but he's counting on the usual busloads of Christians from Arab towns in Israel to boost turnout. Before the outbreak of the Palestinian uprising in 2000, Bethlehem drew more than 90,000 pilgrims a month. With just two weeks until Christmas, Bethlehem is only sparsely decorated.
Bethlehem Mayor Victor Batarseh, a churchgoing Catholic from a leftist party, said he won't start decorating until he has the money in hand. A few neon stars are... | |
| | | The year of the Lord must coincide with Jesus' death or the year He was born. | | Gregorian Christian calendar had placed the year of birth of Christ around 1 BC. Modern scholars, however, do not agree; they say Christ was born around 4 BC. Christian monk Dionysius Exiguus had fixed the birth of Christ in the year 753 after the founding of Rome. In Roman chronology the era of the founding of the city ‘ab urbe condita’, or AUC) dates from April 22, 753 ¼ and the Julian era date from the reform of the calendar by Julius Caesar in 45 BC. In face of such disagreement, I am wondering whether the ‘year of the birth of Christ has been fixed correctly?Bible says a star had appeared in the east. It says, “Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him", Matthew 2:1-2. May be that Star of Bethlehem was Hailey’s comet. The periods between Comet’s approaches to the earth usually vary from 75 to 79 years because the gravitational forces of other planets change the comet’s orbit slightly. Last, it had appeared in the year 1986, so it will appear next in the year... | |
| | How can such a beautiful lady like Hillary Clinton be a bad diplomat | | According to the writer Gordon Thomas in his book " The secret history of the Mossad ",President Bill Clinton was not an honnest man. In 1998, he promised PM Netanyahu to liberate Jonathan Pollard in exchange with territorial concessions. But after the territorial concessions, President Clinton lied and said that he could not keep his word, and liberate Pollard.
At the same time, the Mossad knew that Bill Clinton was doing forbidden things with Monica Levinski. They gave money to Monica, so that she convinced Bill Clinton to make phone calls to Monica from a public phone,more romantic, and not from the White House. The Mossad recorded all the conversations of Bill Clinton with Monica. So that when Bill Clinto said " I never had fun with that Monica Levinsky", the Mossad gave all the recordings to the FBI and the President was impeached.
Diplomacy is also in bed and we can see that Hillary refused to do certain things in bed with the President.
Also when she was a senator, Hillary said that it is impossible to divide Jerusalem. And now she is saying exactly the opposite, that Israel should make painful concessions. Nobody knows who should be in control: PLO? Hamas? Fatah? Saudi... | |
| | problem 25 December as Christmas Day | | When Jesus was born did not any a calendar, because the calendar has any and become a popular 100 years after Jesus was born, although there was no clear evidence.Current calendar we use is mistakenly called, we call it a calendar BC, whereas the calendar BC comes from Islam. American people and the Christian world current Calendar calls as calendar Julian not Calendar Jesus. Date and month of Christmas is not from Christian religion. Absolutely nothing to do.the date of 25 December as Christmas day it was not an option, but just a habit the Jewish especially the Jewish merchants usually sell cheap goods transitional period between summer into winter, and the date is set as the date of 25 December. Then this date was also adopted by most Christians in Germany because based on the story, Jesus was born in Bethlehem at the time of entry of winter. And they celebrate it automatically on every 25th December with a celebration of winter.problem 25 December as Christmas Day was actually not just the Christian religion, things like this happen in other religions such as the Chinese tradition with their holy day, also Hindu and Buddhist
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| | Who was behind the STAR that lead the wise men to Christ | | I attended a Christmas Cantata yesterday, it was so beautiful and the actors portrayed a beautiful story.After the show, what came in mind was this daunting question of who was behind the star that nearly lead to the death of Our Lord in his infancy. I personally don't think it was God. Looking at the account, it wont be a bad choice to place Satan behind it all. The wise men were astrologers, which God's words is against(Deuteronomy 18:10-12).The star had lead them from the East and instead of taking them to Bethlehem where Jesus was born it took them Jerusalem instead,to Herod the Great, the one man who wanted to kill Jesus.After Herod the Great have dispatched them to seek for the child, then the Star reappears to lead them to Jesus.Thinking about all this makes me think Satan was behind it all.What do you think....... | |
| | Where in the world would you like to travel | | I am always musing to set my foot on the holy grounds of Jerusalem. As we all know, Jerusalem has a lot of stories to tell, with its magnificently built temples, Dead Sea, Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, Mount Olives where he was crucified and The desert fortress of Masada . One that amuses me to see is the Wailing Wall. I've never been outside the Philippines, although there are scenic spots to enjoy here during summer but Jerusalem enthralls my imagination. How about you, have you been to a most terrific travel of your life? | |
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