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Title: The Very First Christmas by Paul L. Maier, Frank Ordaz, Francisco Ordaz ISBN: 0-570-05064-2 Publisher: Concordia Publishing House Pub. Date: June, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (6 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Still just fiction
Comment: Christmas, Easter, Sunday and Halloween were around when Jesus walked this planet. Did He or His apostles celebrate ANY of them? NO! Why are you? Because for centuries, your uneducated ancestors were misled by the Catholic Church and it's daughters. Now you too can read. You have no excuse.
Research further. Don't buy this book if you want to know the REAL truth. Christmas is NOT about Jesus in any way shape or form. No matter how hard you try. It is about the pagan worshiping of Nimrod, Noah's grandson. When Nimrod was alive, he was a great hunter and great warrior. When he died, people thought if he was so great in life, he must be equally as great in death and worshiped him on his birthday, the winter solstace. They felt if they appeased him, he would help make the winter go away faster and bring the spring in sooner for good hunting and farming. To appease him, they burned yule logs and decorated trees.
Emperor Constantine wanted to keep his favorite pagan holidays when he adopted Christianity, so he turned the Judaic worshiping of the Jewish Messiah into a perverted religion full of pagan practice such as Christmas, Easter (worshiping Ishtar the goddess of nature and fertility, hence the eggs, grass, baby animals), Sun Day (worshiping the Sun God which had to be done on the first day of the week), Halloween (a Druid festival for the dead), etc. So he threw in some stuff about Jesus to make the Christians happy and packaged it around Jewish holidays (Easter around Passover, Christmas around Chanukah) and very, very few questioned it. Those who did were silenced forever.
Have you ever wondered why there are no Christmas trees in the bible? Why the apostles never did the holidays that the church as we know it is doing. It's because they were Jewish, not pagan.
No matter what you feel about this review, remember one thing:
In all of these things, you are breaking the first commandment, and He is indeed jealous!
My recommendation: Follow the biblical feasts and holidays just like God commanded. You will find it much more fulfilling and will make Him happier.
Now you know the REAL truth in a nutshell.
Blessings in Yeshua! (Jesus's real name. He is afterall Jewish, not Greek.)
Rating: 4
Summary: It's Good
Comment: I was a student of Dr. Maier's, and I found this book easy to understand and read. It's informative while keeping a level of humor and wit to it.
Rating: 5
Summary: This book returns the Christmas focus to where it belongs
Comment: This Gold Medallion Book Award title (for excellence in Evangelical Christian literature) is easy to overlook, since it appears to be yet another illustrated account of the birth of Jesus. Instead, what we have here is a recognized historian writing a kid-friendly book explaining some of the historical context of the Nativity story by having a mother answer her inquisitive child's many questions.
As Christopher's mom reads from gospel of St. Luke, chapter 2, she responds to her eight-year old son's questions about Caesar Augustus, registering for the census, why Joseph was not the father of Jesus Christ, why God chose Mary to be Jesus' mother, how old she might have been, where she lived, the lineage of King David, why Christmas is celebrated on December 25, what the stable was like, why there wasn't any room at the inn, why the shepherds were terrified at the sight of the angel, and how St. Luke knew "all this stuff."
This book is highly recommended to Christians of all traditions, as well as to non-Christian families who may be curious about what's really behind the Christmas story. As the author states in his brief introduction, many "children's Christmas books are often long on fancy and short on fact." I would agree when he says, "these pages...return the Christmas focus to where it belongs." The gospel story is no fairy tale, and here Paul L. Maier places it within the context of history, so children like Chris in this story can learn "about real people and real things that really happened."
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Title: The Very First Easter by Paul L. Maier, Frank Ordaz, Francisco Ordaz ISBN: 0570070538 Publisher: Concordia Publishing House Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: In the Fullness of Time: A Historian Looks at Christmas, Easter, and the Early Church by Paul L. Maier ISBN: 0825433290 Publisher: Kregel Publications Pub. Date: January, 1998 List Price(USD): $22.99 |
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Title: The Very First Christians by Paul L. Maier, Francisco Ordaz, Frank Ordaz ISBN: 0570071755 Publisher: Concordia Publishing House Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Pontius Pilate by Paul L. Maier ISBN: 0825432960 Publisher: Kregel Publications Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.99 |
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Title: The Story of Christmas by Lorraine Schreiner Wells, Patricia A. Pingry ISBN: 0824940911 Publisher: Candy Cane Press Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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