Do Messianic Jews Celebrate Christmas?

Jonathan Bernis talks from a Messianic Jewish perspective about the celebration of Christmas on our Jewish Voice monthly webcast November 18, 2010.

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[afternoondliter]

@PinkkDroid I know lots of people that do the Christmas tree thing and it is not, in any way, an idol to them. It's like anything else that they use to decorate their houses. I think idolatry is about the heart. Hindu people worship cows (idolize them) yet, I can see a cow, or even own one, and, in no way, hold it up as a god or an idol. For the record, I don't like Christmas trees because the needles get everywhere and they're a fire hazard :~)

[PinkkDroid]

Read Jeremiah 10. Its talks about the Christmas tree as an idol. The christmas tree is part of Pagan traditions to worship the god of nature! Wake up people! What does the tree have anything to do with Jesus? NOTHING. Its incredible how people are blindly following the world and not the ways of God.

[KingOystar]

the greeks beleived in alot of divine men. this yeshua crap is similar to the assimilation the Maccabees were fighting!

[407rudeboy]

YESHUA was born during SUKKOT,(sept-oct) that when we should celebrate his birth and he died and resurected during PASSOVER. XMAS AND EASTER ARE PAGAN HOLIDAYS WITH NO BIBLICAL BASIS, WAKE UP CHURCH!!! BARUCH HASHEM, L'CHAIM B'YESHUA!

[knightsofstjoan2004]

@polylingue=If you think that the Torah never mentions that a Messiah will come and die on a cross you're sincerely mistaken. Read what says in Daniel 9:24-26 and Psalm 22, they're both messianic prophecies. Numbers 24:17 is a messianic prophecy and it is connected to Isaiah 7:14, both Isaiah 7:14 and Isaiah 9:6 speaks about the birth of the Messiah, and Jeremiah 23:5-6 is also a messianic prophecy.

[GodHasNOMother]

@stephen22564 Amen and Shalom from Israel.

[GodHasNOMother]

@polylingue The Tanach mentions it....if you can read prophecy. Jeremiah 11:19. For I was like a docile lamb led to the slaughter; I did not realize that it was against me they fashioned their plots: “Let us destroy the TREE WITH ITS FRUIT [or “sap”], let us cut him off from the land of the living. That his name be remembered no more!” Read also: Ps. 41:9; ref. Luke 22:47-48, Zech. 11:12; ref. Matt. 26:14-15, Ps. 35:11; ref. Mark 14:57-58, Is. 53:7; ref. Mark 15:4-5, Is. 50:6; ref. Matt. 26:67.

[GodHasNOMother]

@polylingue Or where did Moses receive the instruction to "first put on your right shoe then your left shoe, then to tie your left shoelace and then your right shoelace? Point me to the Torah scripture for this PLEASE!!! As for the Tanach (which no one bothers to read, it's easier to just gobble up what a Rabbi spits out from his Talmud)... (continued)

[GodHasNOMother]

@polylingue Your knowledge or lack of it of Torah is shocking!!! Yeshua Himself NEVER told anyone NOT to follow the Laws of Moses. What He did say though, is NOT to follow the MANMADE oral Laws of the Pharisees (insert here Orthodox Rabbis). Show me PLEASE where in the Torah did Moses receive the "Law of the Washing of Hands"? The ritual washing where a two eared cup is used and G-d is thanked for the "Law of the washing of Hands"?!!! These are the Laws He said to ignore. (continued)

[polylingue]

The Torah never mentions that a Messiah will come and die on a cross. That greek guy Zeus or Jesus never appeared nor will appeared in the Torah. He was created by Constantine, check it out "The Nascene Creed." The Torah says that anyone that tells you not to follow the Law is not a prophet. He was a renegade, he wanted to be God, but he is not.