[Faith_Machine]

Friends, I want you all to know I love you very much. But the more I think about birthdays, the more I think they should not be celebrated.

I've been meditating on Jeremiah 20:14-18 a lot lately:

14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.

15 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.

16 And let that man be as the cities which the Lord overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;

17 Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.

18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

Sounds to me like God is saying we should curse the day of our birth, and curse our parents for bringing us into this sinful, fallen world.

I don't know about you, but I'd much rather be in Heaven with Jesus, and not down here, rutting around like a pig in slop.

So, anyway, please don't be offended if you don't get an expensive birthday present from me this year. I might pay your parents a visit and curse them out instead.

Yours in Christ,

FM

[Mary Etheldreda]

Maybe Jeremiah cursed his birth because he knew he was a Jew and would likely always be a Jew because the Messiah hadn't come in his time and he was getting impatient.

Just a thought.

I would hate being a Jew, is pretty much what I'm saying. I thank Jesus every day of my life that I'm not a Jew or a Muslim or Hindu or Pagan or any one of those other false religions that exist only because people open their hearts to Satan and know how to brainwash their young children into believing their religion is the only one that makes sense.

But thank you for letting us know it's not that you're being cheap or think less of us, but that you're trying to follow God's Word wherever it leads you. Which may be a totally different place than where it leads me. Which is fine because He is God and we are not and it doesn't have to be consistent, or even make sense.

Glory!

[BrotherLarry]

Just remember, Brother Faith: the J-Dubs do not celebrate their birthdays. Do you want people to think you're a hell-bound J-Dub?

[Faith_Machine]

But, conversely, it's worth noting that in his vile Satanic Bible, Anton Szandor LaVey asserts that for Satanists, their own birthday is the most important day of the year!

[Elmer G. White]

Originally Posted by Faith_Machine

But, conversely, it's worth noting that in his vile Satanic Bible, Anton Szandor LaVey asserts that for Satanists, their own birthday is the most important day of the year!

Brother Faith, dear Brother In Christ!

Would you neglect Jesus's Sweet Birthday?! If it is acceptable, no, required, of us to Worship Him on His Birthday and Celebrate His Sweet Incarnation, why would it be sinful to celebrate the birthdays of His closest friends, us?

Matthew 2:1
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,

I do know that the vilest of the vile sinners used to have birthday parties, as well.

Mark 6:21
And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee;

How could we do less than the abominable Herod or the Pharaoh (Genesis 40:20) who was like the Queen of England of those yonder-year days.


Yours in Christ,

Elmer

[Faith_Machine]

Elmer, I have read the Bible from cover to cover, and the word "Christmas" doesn't appear in it even once.

Christmas is nice and all, but the most important day in my year is EASTER, the day we celebrate our risen Lord!

[Pastor Ezekiel]

In case you're wondering, it seems that someone is just trying to avoid paying his traditional birthday tithes.