As the Christmas season glow starts to fade for 2022, we remember what Linus got right.
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12 replies on “What Linus Got Right”
About 12 years ago, I had a bit to say about this … and along these lines.
Dear World,: God and Santa Claus (dear_world.blogspot.com)
My wife and I both love all of the trappings, all of the traditions (which vary from family to family) of Christmas and we do it up special every year. For ourselves, yes, but more for our children and grandchildren and family and friends who enter our house … I thought when I was a kid … “When you walk into my house at Christmas, you will KNOW that it is Christmas” and I have kept to that.
And along with that is the music – the carols. Big part of it. I’m with Bill on my favorite ones. I don’t mind some of the newer ones (like Rudolph and Frosty, etc) early on in the season. But the closer we get to Christmas I am practically listening to Church music. Often not just practically — but for real.
And almost anything written and popularized in the latter half of the 1900’s is shallow pablum, and the closer to today we get, the more inane it gets. I pretty much hate it.
I do love the renaissance and Victorian music the best. In the renaissance music and a lot of the subsequent classical music a lot of it was actually written as liturgical music as well. Listening to the Kings College Choir and The Sixteen and even the more boisterous Sneaks Noyse music that is probably more like what “blue collar” Victorian era people would have sung when they were out caroling … I love it all.
On the other hand if I hear another round of “All I want for Christmas is You” or “Last Christmas” or “Santa Baby” I’m gonna have to put a few rounds into whatever device is playing it. 🙂
Seems to me that what some secularists don’t understand is that paganism was practiced for quite a few years before God was actually introduced by the Old Testament. Not surprising that some pagan rituals carried over to Christianity. Unfortunately too many current pagans haven’t done their homework. Jesus Christ is the answer.
God did not start with Moses. God walked with Adam and Eve, was known and worshiped by Cain and Abel. He was known by others so that Cain was afraid of being killed for wearing the mark God put on him. People knew about God but forsook Him, leading to the Flood.
Noah and his family also knew God and listened to Him and would have told their children so that their descendants knew Him as well.
I think the claim that Christian missionaries co-opted the native pagan traditions is just the usual “noble savage” excuses people use for lots of other white guilt reasoning. They were savage and uncivilized. They were living a bare subsistence for a variety of reasons and there is no evil in helping them to live better. That the help included the salvation of their souls as well was a gift of Grace, which might be what some people find most objectionable.
1965 – left media is so scared that anybody would come to God that they begin their fight to replace God. No more information from the Bible, you WILL believe what WE tell you to believe. And a cartoon character says his lines on TV, and reaches more people in a few minutes than most religious and educational systems reach in a year. God bless Sparky.
Good for Charles Schultz – that’s precisely what makes this Christmas show so endearing and lasting.
Yes, Jesus was both fully God and fully man. However, to call Him a sinner diminishes His deity and the purpose of his coming the first time to those that are unfamiliar with Him and the scriptures:
“You know that He appeared in order to take away sins; and in Him there is no sin.” ~ 1 John 3:5
“He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.” ~ 2 Corinthians 5:21
“knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ.” ~ 1 Peter 1:18-19
That said, this has recently become my favorite Christmas song:
Joy to the World (Joyful, Joyful)
You are professing some flawed theology, Zo. Jesus was NOT a sinner!
As a human being, he was capable of sinning … yes. He was born as a baby boy into a sinful world … yes. He was tempted by Satan when he was a man … yes.
None of that makes him a sinner, which implies a participation in sinful acts.
Sorry Zo and Bill ~
You definitely are professing flawed theology! Jesus was totally SINLESS!!!!! I cannot continue to listen to the personal theology of Zo – whom I really like as a person – in some of the episodes recently – especially this one. Zo ~ you are entitled to your beliefs, but you cannot re-write my Christian beliefs.
The Charlie Brown Christmas should be about a beautiful moment in television history that is long gone and what a profound effect it had on the culture and not about personal beliefs and interpretations of the Gospels. I am very disappointed in Virtue Signaling episodes because I am not searching for theology “opinions!
See my comment above. You are not really thinking about or absorbing what is said here.
I think you may have misinterpreted Zoe’s comment. I believe he meant that all men/women are born sinful…except Jesus who was born pure.
I think Zo phrased it wrong and conflated being human with being sinful. Jesus was fully human, but he was not a sinner. He had to be man to be under the law and subject to it so He could keep it but there is a difference between sinful and human.
I cannot speak about whether Zo made a phraseology error or not, but you are correct about the dual nature of Christ: human and divine.
I misunderstood nothing that he said. He actually said that Jesus was born a sinner because he was born fully human. That is flawed theology. Listen again at time index 22:00-22:20. In those few seconds, he explicitly declared Jesus was born a sinner and that is the only way he could die. This theology is wrong on so many levels, that I cannot possibly cover the subject in a comment thread — I am not ACTS, I just don’t have the typing chops.
If you agree with Zo, then I suggest that you study in depth the Gospel of John and his three smaller letters, John 1-3, in which he addresses the gnosticism of the age that attempted to undermine the humanity (and subsequently the divintiy) of Jesus Christ.