"Birthdays rob the glory of God"

sabastious

Humans are unique. Each one is unique in his/her own regard. Like your thumbprint, your life is unlike any life in existence.

Celebrating your day of birth does not rob God of his rightful glory. Quite the opposite as it glorifies the life of a single unique individual in the scheme of all time, a testament to it's designer!

The fact that humans even feel the want to celebrate life separates us from all other known life! That "want" was put into us from our creator.

And if you don't believe in a creator it is still a testament to a intricate and beautiful process of how this unique life came to be.

I know forgoing birthdays doesn't seem like a large request of an organization... but it's the principle! JWs gross misconception of birthdays is but the tip of a large iceberg of absurdities and contradictions.

-Sab

debator

Jesus didn't celebrate Birthdays (despite being fully aware of them! His cousin being beheaded at one) So we Christians don't celebrate Birthdays. It is as simple as that. It wasn't till the third century and again under the heavy influence of Rome that Christians started celebrating pagan inspired Birthdays.

We can be unique without needing an annual marking of time passing by which would be irrelevent to God anyway who is beyond time.

sabastious

It is as simple as that. It wasn't till the third century and again under the heavy influence of Rome that Christians started celebrating pagan inspired Birthdays.

And a fine reason to do what you see fit, debator.

But this reason is not good enough for a lot of people out there. So the GB of the WTS have taken the reasoning further because Birthdays, under no circumstance, are to be celebrated. And if so, action will be taken.

Part of this "further reasoning" (when what you described is not good enough) involves Birthday's robbing the glory befitted to God through a menial human celebration of life.

This is the topic of my thread.

-Sab

booby

For Debator - hundreds of Jehovah's Witnesses drowned today in a mass demonstration of walking on water. why were they trying to do this? Because Jesus did.

notverylikely

Jesus didn't celebrate Birthdays (despite being fully aware of them! His cousin being beheaded at one)

Well, taking the bible at face value, Jesus also didn't poop, urinate, ever prepare his own meal, change his clothes, actually learn any carpentry, help an old lady across the street, eat a vegetable, etc.

Pooping therefore is a work of the devil.

debator

Then print the watchtower that says this because (while I'm not saying that won't be mentioned) our main thrust against Birthdays including the false one given to Jesus in December is the paganess of their origin and make-up, right up until current times and also the simple fact that niether Jesus or his Appostles celebrated them despite knowing all about them.

booby

Jesus did not confuse his followers with conflicting changing ideology and doctrinal beleif. In a newsflash from the gb it has been stated that they will no longer be publishing vaccilating new light confusion because Jesus didn't.

sabastious

Then print the watchtower that says this

This is from the current circuit assembly:

Birthday celebrations have pagan roots. Furthermore, humility, modesty, and a desire to glorify Jehovah would rule out placing undue importance on any human. Since a person’s life comes from Jehovah, the glory should go to him. (lv 150-151 pars. 9-12)

-Sab

Satanus

Poor wt god. He can't get enough glory and worship. The slightest bit of extra attention anything of a lower nature than his gets him all him all hot and bothered to the point of being pathological.

S

Ding

How does anyone know if Jesus and his disciples celebrated birthdays or not?

The fact that the NT doesn't say that they did doesn't prove a thing.

It's no big deal either way, except to the Watchtower, which makes all sorts of rules regarding matters on which the Bible is silent.

Read Romans 14 about the unimportance of which days are or are not observed.

"Birthdays rob the glory of God"

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