Comments on: What’s Christmas Without a Good Fight? http://burnsidewriters.com/2009/11/07/whats-christmas-without-a-good-fight/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:13:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Lou Ehrlich http://burnsidewriters.com/2009/11/07/whats-christmas-without-a-good-fight/comment-page-1/#comment-13808 Lou Ehrlich Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:31:35 +0000 http://burnsidewriters.com/?p=7760#comment-13808 Terrific piece you have prepared here! The web is overflowing of bad authorship and I was grabbed by your lucidity. Your determinations are dead-on and I will straightaway subscribe to your rss feed to remain up to date with your up future postings. Yes! I acknowledge it, your authorship style is fabulous and i will now work harder on improving mine. Terrific piece you have prepared here! The web is overflowing of bad authorship and I was grabbed by your lucidity. Your determinations are dead-on and I will straightaway subscribe to your rss feed to remain up to date with your up future postings. Yes! I acknowledge it, your authorship style is fabulous and i will now work harder on improving mine.

]]> By: Larry Shallenberger http://burnsidewriters.com/2009/11/07/whats-christmas-without-a-good-fight/comment-page-1/#comment-13295 Larry Shallenberger Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:52:57 +0000 http://burnsidewriters.com/?p=7760#comment-13295 You left out the Slaughter of the Innocents (catastrophic turn)-- instead of Jesus dying for people, people--babies--are dieing for him. There is struggle that comes with the humanity of the situation, and there's struggle that comes with the powerful being threatened by the Christ. You left out the Slaughter of the Innocents (catastrophic turn)– instead of Jesus dying for people, people–babies–are dieing for him. There is struggle that comes with the humanity of the situation, and there’s struggle that comes with the powerful being threatened by the Christ.

]]> By: Jim http://burnsidewriters.com/2009/11/07/whats-christmas-without-a-good-fight/comment-page-1/#comment-13294 Jim Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:15:55 +0000 http://burnsidewriters.com/?p=7760#comment-13294 I wonder if the christmas story is told to show the humanity (i.e. the imperfection) of God comming to earth. It plays out like a bad sit-com, where everything that can go wrong will, and yet we have a happy ending - We have a child concieved out of wed-lock (negitive turn), then Joseph tried to end the engagement (negitive turn), angels come and save the marriage (positive turn), then there's a census called when Mary is 8 months pregnant and they're called to travel (another negitive turn). Then as they get into Bethlehem all the rooms are full (negitive turn), then Mary goes into Labour (extreme negitive turn, as they're away from much of the family, and have no room to stay). Then the rest of the story all magically works out (child is born safely, placed in a manger (cute) while the animals quietly coo over him, and then gifts are brought for the baby-shower). The conflicts, while big for the characters in their life, are quite small in regards to most of the naritive of the bible. Its as if the point really is to be that God didn't come in fan-fare and perfect child-birth, but came through all that Humanity has to deal with. Nothing ground-breaking or fancy, just the simple plain occurances of every-day life. I wonder if the christmas story is told to show the humanity (i.e. the imperfection) of God comming to earth. It plays out like a bad sit-com, where everything that can go wrong will, and yet we have a happy ending – We have a child concieved out of wed-lock (negitive turn), then Joseph tried to end the engagement (negitive turn), angels come and save the marriage (positive turn), then there’s a census called when Mary is 8 months pregnant and they’re called to travel (another negitive turn). Then as they get into Bethlehem all the rooms are full (negitive turn), then Mary goes into Labour (extreme negitive turn, as they’re away from much of the family, and have no room to stay). Then the rest of the story all magically works out (child is born safely, placed in a manger (cute) while the animals quietly coo over him, and then gifts are brought for the baby-shower). The conflicts, while big for the characters in their life, are quite small in regards to most of the naritive of the bible. Its as if the point really is to be that God didn’t come in fan-fare and perfect child-birth, but came through all that Humanity has to deal with. Nothing ground-breaking or fancy, just the simple plain occurances of every-day life.

]]> By: Garrett http://burnsidewriters.com/2009/11/07/whats-christmas-without-a-good-fight/comment-page-1/#comment-13284 Garrett Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:41:32 +0000 http://burnsidewriters.com/?p=7760#comment-13284 I agree. I think we take the gospel out of Christmas a lot of the time. I'm actually surprised even though the gospel has been taken out of many things throughout the years. People like drama, yet many times we take love and war out of the Christmas story and only remember the birth story as it appeared by the human eye. This is the story of our salvation! Revelations 12 depicts the epic battle between God, as the Christ child, and Satan, as a red dragon. Perhaps this was the version the angels saw. Beautiful. Thanks for this. I agree. I think we take the gospel out of Christmas a lot of the time. I’m actually surprised even though the gospel has been taken out of many things throughout the years. People like drama, yet many times we take love and war out of the Christmas story and only remember the birth story as it appeared by the human eye. This is the story of our salvation! Revelations 12 depicts the epic battle between God, as the Christ child, and Satan, as a red dragon. Perhaps this was the version the angels saw. Beautiful.

Thanks for this.

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