I wonder why several Christian bible believer are celebrating Christmas
which they know that it not in the bible, are they blinded by tradition or
bonded? Some pastor tough that Christmas is not in the bible and if you are
bible believer you should be aware of it and will not do it. Maybe, you are
sleeping when pastor taught it; wake up my brethren, Christmas celebration is
not base on the bible.
Some reason why Christian-Bible believer celebrate Christmas;
They say, they just mingle with their friend who is not a believer, they
won‘t that their friend to call them killjoy, or they won‘t their friend to
keep bad feeling to them that’s why they join in Christmas celebration, Others
are saying their kids are jealous to other kids who have a Christmas decoration
in their home like Christmas tree, that’s why they also put the same. Some say
it’s just a tradition.
These are many reasons why some brethren join in Christmas celebration, if
we truly believe in the bible we follow God command;
“‘Whatever I command you, be careful to observe it; you shall not add to it
nor take away from it’” (Deut. 12:32 NKJV).
Christmas is not from what we believing, so, why we follow it. what we needs
to be follow is what God commanded in the bible, anything added to what He
commanded is extraneous and is, therefore, merely man-made. If a man’s worship
or follow a religious observance made by men, such worship is in vain. Jesus
made this clear during His public ministry when He quoted what God said:
“And in vain they worship ME, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men”
(Matt. 15:9, Ibid.). They taught the teaching of man as teaching of God.
In the case of Christmas, this celebration has no biblical mandate. no specific instruction in the Bible, either from the Lord or from His
apostles, that Christmas is to be celebrated. Consequently, in the absence of
such a command, we also do not find in Scriptures any instruction as to the
manner by which it is to be done. There is no scriptural command or prescribed
procedure in connection to its celebration.
It’s difficult to see that our child got jealous to other children who
celebrating a Christmas, or our friend got mad on us if we did not join them, but as a Christian we should practice what the bible
say, this is a part of our faith that we should fight for, we are in the light, we should be the light of the world, an example of
truly Christian bible believer.
Last Nov. 19 2013, from the poll of Abs-Cbn “Umagang kay Ganda” program,
show that, 58 percent out of 100 percent of the voters didn‘t want to abolish
the PDAF or Pork barrel.
I’m not against the Ruling of the Supreme Court, I’m just expressing my
views as a citizen of the Philippines, I’m just wondering, why only now, after
long years, if this called PDAF scam or the pork barrel scam, which is
involving the alleged misuse by several members of the Congress of the
Philippines didn’t come out or the whistle blower didn't shout, it will not found by Supreme
Court unconstitutional? It’s been sensational for the months, a group of people
and cause oriented group march for it for abolition, maybe it was one reason
why it was declared unconstitutional, to avoid further issues, that involved
our elected politician.
Too many people got help from this PDAF of politician mostly the student who
sponsored by some politicians for scholarship, those who seek medical help and
many other people, like me when my brother confined in the hospital and we have
no enough money to pay the bill, our congressman in our town help us to pay our
bills, this is one reason why the poll from abs-cbn are higher than those who
want to abolish it because of the help they can get.
I’m not a lawyer but for me like any other people, it should not be abolish,
change the name, maybe.
I’m thinking the poor, in my view, the one who want to abolish it, is the
one who can’t get what he want despite of his act in paying the taxes, he
thought that his taxes goes nothing, but for the poor who benefited it, is not.
the best thing to do to avoid like this scam is transparency, some
politician can freely use the pork barrel wherever they want because there is
no transparency, in case of where is the pork barrel used by other politician,
there is no report to the public, to the people where they use it, or at least
to their constituent, people of the Philippines has a right to know where the
money go through, why don’t show a check and balance to the people?, so, they
may know where it goes, on the contrary the politician will think twice if he
want to use it on his personal because he know people will learn it.
We know that some politicians use it for their constituent and to help the
poor. I hope the lawmaker will make a law in exchange of PDAF for the sake of
the poor people who is nothing to turn to, but their elected leader.
Until now this is a topic, I’m not anti or pro, just in the middle. On the other hand, abolition of
this PDAF will lessen the corruption.
