Concerning Christmas
Upon entering this Yuletide season, I’ve been pondering what Christmas truly means to me. Is it simply a time when we give and receive without barely one thought to Jesus? Or is it the time when we should thank the Father for giving us the most precious gift ever given: Jesus, His one and only beloved Son? Sure, it’s nice to get things that we want, but shouldn’t we give thanks to God for sending us that most holy and precious gift? I’m not saying that it’s wrong to give and receive presents, but we also should be thanking Almighty God for sending us Jesus in a manger. Not only should we be thanking Father for sending us His Son, but also Jesus who was willing to come in such a humble state as to be born in a feeding trough.
In Omnibus, we are reading The Ecclesiastical History of the English People, I found it interesting that when the monks came to Britain to evangelize the Britains, they took the pagan celebration of winter solstice, and turned it into a Christian holiday and celebrated Christ’s birth- hence Christ-mas.
I’ve come to the personal conclusion that spending Christmas with family and opening presents is all right as long as it is centered on my personal realationship to God, for all He’s done for me and saving me from my corrupted self. I also know that I shouldn’t just thank God once a year, but every day of my life.
On the Incarnation
Athanasius was a bishop of Alexandria who with much hard work defended the gospel.He lived from296-273 AD. Forty-five years were spent as bishop and seventeen of his years as a bishop were spent in exile for his faith. Arias was a priest who introduced the Arian heresy. He fought against this heresy for several years. After Athenasius’ death the Arian’s were finally defeated.
In Omnibus, we just read On the Incarnation. Athenasius made the Incarnation something real for me. In a lot of churches they make the Incarnation a nice little story , without truly believing the Word came down from heaven and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit and actually lived. This depiction made the story much more real to me. I have come to have a better appreciation of what Christ did for me.
Also , I never completly understood that through his death He restored the nature of man. I had been taught that He died so now we get to go to heaven when we die.But Jesus came to redraw us. Then I knew that Christ was fully God and fully man,but I never made the connection that he was both God and man while He was on the earth. Like the example that even as He was a baby just being born, He commanded a star to announce His birth and Persians came to worship Him. This book has cleared up many things for me.
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