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   No response need be made; the poor; often silly; jw vatican think is even   
   more/better illustrated below as friend james attempts to salvage it.  Note   
   also the expansion of irrelevant info in an attempt to divert and change   
   the subject away from the really lame logic used by the jw vatican:   
      
   >>Note the false uninformed logic about 1st century birthdays.   
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   >>>10) No date given on Jesus birth. Some think 4 B.C.E.   
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   >>And this is relevant exactly how concerning jewish birthdays?   
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   >It is a fact concerning the Jewish birth day of Jesus.   
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   >>>11) After astrologers and sorerers and shepherds visit Jesus, NO ONE   
   >>>ELSE in Bible ever celebrated his birth. Is the Bible trying to tell   
   >>>us something?   
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   >>Smile; the absence of a mention in the NT doesn't mean it was not   
   >>observed.   
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   >Neither was cross-dressing observed. Does that mean it was?   
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   >How important is Christmas throughout the world today? Just a passing   
   >thought? Just a little bit? You know, that it is VERY IMPORTANT to   
   >Christians world-wide. (and even some non-Christians)   
   >   
   >The Israelites celebrated many things. For example, the Festival of   
   >Booths. Toward the end of their agricultural season, they had a   
   >celebration thanking God for His blessings on the crops.   
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   >NOW, HOW MUCH MORE IMPORTANT IS THE BIRTH OF OUR SAVIOUR OF THE WHOLE   
   >WORLD? Yes it most certainly would have been celebrated and mentioned   
   >in the Bible if it was. BUT IT WASN'T!!!   
   >   
   >But why? Because celebrating birthdays was considered a pagan custom   
   >and the early Christians would not do it.   
   >   
   >In the Holy Bible there are only TWO recordings of a birthdays being   
   >celebrated. Both were pagans, and both had some one die on that day.   
   >(see Gen 40:20,22 and Mt 14:6-10)   
   >   
   >The Bible actually says that the day of a person's DEATH is better   
   >than the day of their birth. Ec 7:1,   
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   >"A name is better than good oil, and the day of death than the day of   
   >one's being born."   
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   >"Down to the fourth century Christianity rejected the birthday   
   >celebration as a pagan custom." (The German periodical "Schwäbische   
   >Zeitung" (magazine supplement Zeit und Welt) of April 3/4, 1981, p.   
   >4.)   
   >(https://abcog.org/birthday.htm)   
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   >Sincerely James,   
   >Men with panic disorders.   
   >What can help?   
   >Go to jw.org   
   >12/12/23   
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   >>Here is how it was used and why Christ observed life events   
   >>based on birth; think of going up to the temple with his parents at a   
   >>certain age:   
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   >>The jw vatican has no scholors of 1st century palisten culture.  With that   
   >>kind of ignorance any idea can be suggested, ignorance is bliss, no?   
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   >>BIRTHDAY - JewishEncyclopedia.com   
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   >>https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/3322-birthday>   
      
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