The Very First Christmas

Rating:
Summary: Still just fiction
Review: 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:
Summary: Still just fiction
Review: 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:
Summary: It's Good
Review: 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:
Summary: It's Good
Review: 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:
Summary: This book returns the Christmas focus to where it belongs
Review: 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."

Rating:
Summary: A great Christmas book for children
Review: Young Christopher is tired of fairytales, and wants his mother to begin reading real stories to him. With Christmas approaching, his mother comes to him with the Bible, to read him the story of the very first Christmas, as found in the Book of Luke. Together, they read the passage, and discuss many things.

This is a great book. The text of the story was simple enough for my 7-year-old son to understand, and I believe that his reading the story will have more impact than my reading it to him. The illustrations by Francisco Ordaz are absolute masterpieces, and add greatly to the impact of the story. I recommend this book 100%!