“During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.” FirstsChristianJesusCenturyBirthSettingSettingsCelebrateHolidayEasterBethlehemJesus Birth Author:Nancy Pearcey
“... for our sake loosing within Himself the bonds of bodily birth, He granted us through spiritual birth, according to our own volition, power to become children of God instead of children of flesh and blood if we have faith in His Name (cf. Jn. 1:12-13). For the Savior the sequence was, first of all, incarnation and bodily birth for my sake; and so thereupon the birth in the Spirit through baptism, originally spurned by Adam, for the sake of my salvation and restoration by grace, or, to describe it even more vividly, my very remaking.” IfsFirstsChildrenChristianSpiritualSpiritNamesGraceBloodBirthSalvationSakeFleshGrantedOrthodoxSaviorHave FaithAdamSequenceRestorationIncarnationOrthodox ChristianChild Of GodBaptismCfsFlesh And BloodVolition Author:Maximus the Confessor
“Men in all societies possess the biological equipment to remove their hats or shoes, but it is the birth within a particular culture that decides that a Jew will keep his hat and shoes on in his place of worship, a Mohammedan will take off his shoes, and a Christian will keep his shoes on but remove his hat.” MenChristianCultureParticularBirthBehaviorWorshipShoesJewHatsRemoveEquipmentPlaces Of Worship Book:MAN'S RISE TO CIVILIZATION Source: MAN'S RISE TO CIVILIZATION
“Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.” CountryChristianSidesBirthDareChristmasSecularFestivalsBlasphemy Book:Letter from America, 1946-2004 Source: Letter from America, 1946-2004
“All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more to be feared than the theater. It is a representation of the passions so natural and so delicate that it excites them and gives birth to them in our hearts, and, above all, to that of love.” WorldLoveGivingHeartChristianPassionNaturalDangerousBirthTheaterChristian LifeDelicateRepresentationAmusement Book:Pascal's Pensées: Selections Source: Pascal's Pensées: Selections
“What if tomorrow someone digs up definitive proof that Jesus had a real, earthly, biological father named Larry, and archeologists find Larry's tomb and do DNA samples and prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the virgin birth was just a bit of mythologizing the Gospel writers threw in to appeal to the followers of the Mithra and Dionysian religious cults that were hugely popular at the time of Jesus, whose gods had virgin births? Could you still be a Christian? Is the way of Jesus still the best possible way to live?” IfsWayStillsRealChristianFatherJesusBitsReligiousDoubtBirthTomorrowProveShadowProofAppealsWhat IfFollowersCultVirginsDnaTombsWay To LiveLarrySampleVirgin BirthBiological FathersReligious Cults Author:Rob Bell