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biblical basis?! PASKO and SYMBOLS...

 Q - Kung wala pong biblical basis ang Santa Claus, reindeers, snow men, Christmas Trees ---at may associations pa nga with unChristian practices, bakit po ginagamit pang symbols or decorations sa Pasko?

A - Those symbols are used by most, if not all, NOT for their religious associations but for their EMOTIONAL associations. Kung paano man o para saan man ginamit yun ng mga sinaunang tao sa malayo nang panahon ---religious man o hindi--- hindi yun ang dahilan sa paggamit ngayon. Nagdedecorate ang mga tao to evoke memories of their happy chilhood and family life associated with past Christmases colored and defined by those symbols/decorations. Nagdedecorate ang mga magulang para ituloy ang masasayang alaala ng kanilang kamusmusan at ipasa/ipamana/ipadama sa mga bagong bata at musmos sa pamilya ang ganoong damdamin. Hindi para mag-glorify ng pagan symbols.

And what's wrong with the idea of a gift-giving Santa Claus based on a real-life person who ministered to countless people with his generosity?

What could be so wrong with a snow man? Or with puto bumbong or Christmas lights, especially the Philippine parol that reminds us of the Bethlehem star?

To ask recently born-again Christians or those who have just shifted to evangelical or biblical Christianity in their midlife to stop such practices is to cut them off from their innocent and harmless but enriching and empowering emotional heritage.

To deny the new generation of biblical/evangelical Christians these colorful and enlivening practices is to make them grow up in a cultureless, heritage-less, vaccum-like iconoclastic bubble. And for what? Nagiging mas banal, mas malinis at mas maka-Diyos ba talaga ang mga hindi nagpapalamuti ng mga ito?

pag disagree ako sa post ng isang tao

 Q - Maganda po bang pag disagree ako sa post ng isang tao ay mag-message ako sa kanya and say so?

A - Kung disagree ka, mas mabuting wag ka na lang magbasa ng posts nya. Hindi ka naman pinipilit. Kasi, kung gagawin mo ang mag-message ng disagreement, eh di ang dami-daming posts sa mundo na gaganyanin mo?

Para yang: Papasok ka sa bahay ng may bahay, tapos sasabihin mo sa host na ayaw mo ng kulay ng kurtina nya, o ayaw mo sa interior design, o ayaw mo nyan at nito... WAG KA NA LANG PUMASOK kasi bahay nya yun. Castle nya yun

payagang magsong-lead sa church ang makasalanan?

 Q - Pwede po bang payagang magsong-lead sa church ang makasalanan?

A -

Puede bang payagang mag-preach /teach /administer /lead /usher /serve in any capacity ang may "kasalanan"?

Pag gagawing issue ang personal life ng church singer, ia-apply din yan sa lahat.

Ang magiging bunga ay

1. Manmanan /Silipan /Sumbungan

/Maritesan /Investigation /Trial

/Judgment etc. sa private lives ng

lahat ng nagse-serve. Magiging

parang police state ang church.

(Chilling Moral Lesson: Wag na lang

mag-serve para di makainitan.

Mag-asal bisita na lang kasi ang

"bait-bait" ng church sa bisita ---may

pa-kape at biscuit pa, pero

ewan na lang sa worker.)

2. Disqualification of all "sinners" from

service /ministry. Which leads to their

distancing /separation from church.

3. Baka walang matirang qualified!?

PAG NAGSIMULANG MAG-POLICE ng private lives ng mga tao ang church, ano ang mag-iincrease:

ACCEPTANCE or REJECTION OF

PEOPLE?

PEACE OR TROUBLE?

REST OR MORE PAGOD?

PHARISEENESS o JESUSNESS?