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Santa And Baby Jesus Picture Biography
Christmas is a private day on the mesa with more dancing in the church, gift exchanges and visits from family and friends.
Only around 30 people live on the mesa full time. Most Acoma live in the nearby communities. On feast days everyone returns. Tables are laden with food, including bread baked in a "horno"--a clay oven fired with wood--and posole, a mutton and hominy stew flavored with chilis and garlic. People go from house to house and there is always room for one more person around the table.
The next day, the public is again welcome to share in the festivities. In the church, I watch dancers doing a traditional Comanche dance as Santa Claus gives out presents and two men stand guard over Baby Jesus on the altar. There are toys and candy canes for the children and oranges for the elders. Everyone gets a present, including Baby Jesus.
Have you ever seen some of these pictures?
Do they concern you?
What are some reasons these may concern you?
How about this picture of the Madonna holding baby Jesus?
Or maybe the next ... surely offered in humor ...
Go to Google images and search for 'Santa baby Jesus'
These are but a few I selected ...
Here are my concerns:
- Such pictures imply Santa existed before Jesus was born
- Which means Santa also precedes Saint Nicholas
-Such pictures also suggest we are to worship the baby Jesus
- Instead of worshipping the risen Lord
Some folks would say there is no intentional movement
among men to put Santa in competition with Jesus ...
Actually, I would tend to agree on that point.
But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness,
your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.
2 Cor 11:3 (NASB)
And the great dragon was thrown down,
the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan,
who deceives the whole world;
he was thrown down to the earth,
and his angels were thrown down with him.
Rev 12:9 (NASB)
Nonetheless, I truly believe a deception is afoot ...
Writing letters to Santa Claus has been a Christmas tradition for many years, but a group of kids in Michigan are doing things a little differently this year. They’re sending letters to Baby Jesus instead of the old man in the red suit.
“We get gifts on Christmas, on Jesus’ birthday, to remind us what a gift he was to us,” Hope, 10, told the Kalamazoo News. “A lot of kids forget that. If Jesus had never been born, we wouldn’t even have Christmas.”
Hope is among 25 students at a Catholic School in Kalamazoo who are writing detailed letters to Jesus about their faith and spirituality. The children aren’t asking for toys; rather they’re sharing with Jesus how they celebrate the savior.
Here are a few excerpts from the children’s letters, as reported by the newspaper.
I celebrate Christmas by going to church. Then we all come home and read the bible passage about when you were born.
After we read the bible the angles (who were decorating ever so hard during Advent) rings jingle bells and we all go to the living room to admire their work. … Then fiannally we open the presents the angles gave us. Then we put on the pajamas the angles give us and go to sleep.
You are the one who saved us all. And that is why we celebrate Christmas.
We celebrate Christmas becase thats when our savior was born. It’s one of the happiest days of all time. The person with the most power in the whole universe is born.
Some Christian groups have long opposed teaching children to believe in Santa Claus. They say the Santa tradition detracts from the religious origins and purpose of Christmas. What do you think?
Despite nativity plays commencing in schools across the country, it seems many people struggle with the storyline of the birth of baby Jesus.
A majority of Britons appear to be unaware that Jesus was born out of wedlock and some believe that the first person to visit the manger was Santa.
Only 26 per cent knew that Mary and Joseph were betrothed when asked about the story of the birth of Christ, a survey revealed.
'Naivety' play: Children and their parents have sparse knowledge of the story of the birth of Jesus Christ, a poll has shown (file photo)
Over 2,000 children and parents were polled on behalf of the Bible Society about their nativity play knowledge, and the results showed some major holes in the story.
Two per cent thpught Mary and Joseph were ‘on their first date’ when they found out she was pregnant, The Telegraph reported.
A further 37 people thought Santa Claus was the first person to visit baby Jesus where a majority believed he was sleeping in a Moses basket – not a manger, polling company ICM revealed
Friend of Jesus: Some believed the first person to bring gifts to the newborn Christ was Santa Claus.
Santa And Baby Jesus Picture Biography
Christmas is a private day on the mesa with more dancing in the church, gift exchanges and visits from family and friends.
Only around 30 people live on the mesa full time. Most Acoma live in the nearby communities. On feast days everyone returns. Tables are laden with food, including bread baked in a "horno"--a clay oven fired with wood--and posole, a mutton and hominy stew flavored with chilis and garlic. People go from house to house and there is always room for one more person around the table.
The next day, the public is again welcome to share in the festivities. In the church, I watch dancers doing a traditional Comanche dance as Santa Claus gives out presents and two men stand guard over Baby Jesus on the altar. There are toys and candy canes for the children and oranges for the elders. Everyone gets a present, including Baby Jesus.
Have you ever seen some of these pictures?
Do they concern you?
What are some reasons these may concern you?
How about this picture of the Madonna holding baby Jesus?
Or maybe the next ... surely offered in humor ...
Go to Google images and search for 'Santa baby Jesus'
These are but a few I selected ...
Here are my concerns:
- Such pictures imply Santa existed before Jesus was born
- Which means Santa also precedes Saint Nicholas
-Such pictures also suggest we are to worship the baby Jesus
- Instead of worshipping the risen Lord
Some folks would say there is no intentional movement
among men to put Santa in competition with Jesus ...
Actually, I would tend to agree on that point.
But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness,
your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.
2 Cor 11:3 (NASB)
And the great dragon was thrown down,
the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan,
who deceives the whole world;
he was thrown down to the earth,
and his angels were thrown down with him.
Rev 12:9 (NASB)
Nonetheless, I truly believe a deception is afoot ...
Writing letters to Santa Claus has been a Christmas tradition for many years, but a group of kids in Michigan are doing things a little differently this year. They’re sending letters to Baby Jesus instead of the old man in the red suit.
“We get gifts on Christmas, on Jesus’ birthday, to remind us what a gift he was to us,” Hope, 10, told the Kalamazoo News. “A lot of kids forget that. If Jesus had never been born, we wouldn’t even have Christmas.”
Hope is among 25 students at a Catholic School in Kalamazoo who are writing detailed letters to Jesus about their faith and spirituality. The children aren’t asking for toys; rather they’re sharing with Jesus how they celebrate the savior.
Here are a few excerpts from the children’s letters, as reported by the newspaper.
I celebrate Christmas by going to church. Then we all come home and read the bible passage about when you were born.
After we read the bible the angles (who were decorating ever so hard during Advent) rings jingle bells and we all go to the living room to admire their work. … Then fiannally we open the presents the angles gave us. Then we put on the pajamas the angles give us and go to sleep.
You are the one who saved us all. And that is why we celebrate Christmas.
We celebrate Christmas becase thats when our savior was born. It’s one of the happiest days of all time. The person with the most power in the whole universe is born.
Some Christian groups have long opposed teaching children to believe in Santa Claus. They say the Santa tradition detracts from the religious origins and purpose of Christmas. What do you think?
Despite nativity plays commencing in schools across the country, it seems many people struggle with the storyline of the birth of baby Jesus.
A majority of Britons appear to be unaware that Jesus was born out of wedlock and some believe that the first person to visit the manger was Santa.
Only 26 per cent knew that Mary and Joseph were betrothed when asked about the story of the birth of Christ, a survey revealed.
'Naivety' play: Children and their parents have sparse knowledge of the story of the birth of Jesus Christ, a poll has shown (file photo)
Over 2,000 children and parents were polled on behalf of the Bible Society about their nativity play knowledge, and the results showed some major holes in the story.
Two per cent thpught Mary and Joseph were ‘on their first date’ when they found out she was pregnant, The Telegraph reported.
A further 37 people thought Santa Claus was the first person to visit baby Jesus where a majority believed he was sleeping in a Moses basket – not a manger, polling company ICM revealed
Friend of Jesus: Some believed the first person to bring gifts to the newborn Christ was Santa Claus.
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Santa And Baby Jesus Picture
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Santa And Baby Jesus Picture
Santa And Baby Jesus Picture
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Santa And Baby Jesus Picture
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