Talking about religion - Round 2!

[JenBKR]

That may be true of the individuals you know, but I have been part of many ecumenical gatherings where peoples of various branches of the Judeo-Christian tradition worked together. Happens all the time!

Me too - happens quite a bit actually

[Argranade]

I would say I'm pretty much just a regulare Christian,

But I belive God, Jesus, The lord ect ... is all one person, It may sound weird that jesus would pray to god him self but that's what I belive and I learned about it threw church.

I also belive god was not born on Christmas becase there's no snow in jerusalem and almost all the photo's I see of the manger have snow and baby lambs which does not make sence because lambs are born in the spring.

In some bible photos I don't see snow but I see lambs, sand, flowers ect .. this I belive and from the baby lambs part I would say he was born in the spring around April, again that's what I think because that's the time of year baby sheep are born NOT in mid december lol.

How did god come to be? .. how was he created? how did this happen? I was taught he came as a thought expressed it was just a unnatural phenomenon that came to be, I also wounder who thought of this thought? lol ... it's kinda confusing for me but all I know is that I belive in god with all my heart and know he's real with in me.

[JenBKR]

I also belive god was not born on Christmas becase there's no snow in jerusalem and almost all the photo's I see of the manger have snow and baby lambs which does not make sence because lambs are born in the spring.

Actually that is true, the actual date of Jesus' birth is not known, but it is believed to be in springtime. The holiday celebrating His birth (Christmas) was made on Dec. 25th to coincide with a pagan holiday.

[smokey the elder]

I'm like Twisterdog; I believe that there is a Supreme Being, who manifests him/her/itself in different ways throughout the ages and to different folks. I am not very religious per se, but my beliefs resonate most with polytheistic philosophies. A different aspect of Deity speaks at a different time, as needed. I have come to think that many organized religions attempt to quantify the Infinite, which is of course, impossible!

[lady_zana]

I also belive god was not born on Christmas becase there's no snow in jerusalem and almost all the photo's I see of the manger have snow and baby lambs which does not make sence because lambs are born in the spring.

I think the snow in the scenes is mostly so that pictures look like what what we would expect. We have the idea of a "white Christmas" so they put snow in the pictures to make it more "Christmas-y". I have also seen pictures of the Virgin Mary where she is very pale skinned with blue eyes.....while no one knows what she looked like, she probably didn't look like a little white girl

On that note, a few years ago, scientists and historians were working together to find an astrological signs that might have been the Star of Bethleham and I think they decided it would have been in April/May based on the location and descriptions of the star in the Bible.

Christmas is about the time of the Pagan Yule holiday and many of the traditions, such as Christmas Trees and spreading holly around come from the Pagan traditions because when many of the pagans at the time converted, they began a new religion but took parts of their old religion with them.