Thank you Pilgrim for posting the article by Mr. Hoeksema.It could not have come at a more needful time.

The latest rage here in several of the local communities is the placing of a yard sign that says,"Happy Birthday Jesus".It seems as if I am waging a one man war against this blasphemy.One can hardly travel down a street anywhere without seeing at least one and in some cases one in every yard.When voicing my opposition to these signs I have been told ,among other things that I am ,"straining at a gnat",and "Oh,it's just a little sign letting people know that Christians live here."

Mr. Hoeksema is dead on when he says that violating the second commandment is a heinous sin,dragging down the glorious Creator of heaven and earth to man's own level.We Christians are to blame as much as the pagans we point our finger at when this subject comes up.

This is the part that does it for me,when Mr. Hoeksema says,"For the living God is the Creator,but an image is always the representation of a creature.God is the eternal One,but an image is the representation of a creature which drags God into the limits of time."

When asked by one lady why I didn't like those signs,I replied,"the Jesus that saved me doesn't have birthdays , He's eternal."She said to that,"Well, you don't have to be legalistic about it."


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