During this time of year a lot of folks get hung up on the use of the term “Xmas.” Most think of it as the world trying to take Christ out of Christmas. I can fully understand their reasoning for it surely looks to be so. And to be sure, for some it is so. We are living at a time in history when the news media and most government and public sectors would like to see Jesus completely eradicated. But this is just a pipe-dream for them because it will never be. You may take Jesus out of the public eye but you cannot remove Jesus from the heart. The question is, “Is it ok to use “Xmas” in place of Christmas. Theologically, linguistically,  and historically the answer is yes. I have always known the “X” to stand for the Greek letter “Chi”. Chi is the first letter of the name of Christ in the Greek language which is the language that most of the New testament was written in.

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Well, the answer to that question is NO! As America faces Judgment (yes JUDGMENT) from God for its mounting sins against Him, more and more events like Hurricanes Katrina (2005), Sandy or Tornadoes that destroyed Joplin Missouri (2011)…or the current horrific massacre like the loss of over 20 children in Newtown, Connecticut are going to draw people’s attention to the time-worn question of “HOW CAN GOD LET THIS HAPPEN“?!!!

Whether it is an earthquake in Haiti or a Tsunami in the Far East where hundreds of thousands of lives are lost and millions affected, God always gets the blame – either the blame FOR it, or the blame for ALLOWING it to happen! We can go even farther than that – World War II and the Holocaust where six million of our Jewish brethren were murdered by the Germans and Hitler. Did God cause that? When the great American President Franklin D. Roosevelt REFUSED to allow the SS St Louis to land in the United States 1939 with 937 Jews fleeing Hitler by ship, and they were forced to return to Europe and sure death, did God cause that? NO! FDR did! They even made a movie out of it called the VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED.  We can look at the ill-fated voyage of the SS St Louis some other time. By the way, the Prime Minister of Canada Mackenzie King did the same thing as FDR! Apart from natural disasters like tsunami, earthquakes, hurricanes and tornadoes, criminal acts like what happened in Newtown are simply acts of Evil.

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