Another Letter About X-Mas
SUBJECT: XMAS? ;(
Hi there, Thought you might be interested, too, in the fact that it is a VERY “new” thing for the Christian world to be SO GULLIBLE about “Xmas”!
There is Spurgeon, below, but it wouldn’t even take that much discernment to watch drunken “carol-ers” who blaspheme their Maker in their daily lives, with “Little Town of Bethlehem” coming out of their mouths, in between sips of liquor, or the pagan revelry and immorality at “office parties” using Jesus’ Name in vain as their “reason for the season” or the filth of materialism. And the fact the Jesus’ own mother and brothers and the apostles never MENTIONED His birthday or give us any reason to think they ever even thought about it, or did anything to recognize such a thing as Jesus’ birthday? As if that’s actually His birthday anyway, as opposed to an ancient pagan day, renamed. Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord they God in vain. But, it’s not just the United States.
There are things all over the world to further demonstrate the demon-nature of this “taking of the Lord’s Name in vain” by calling the demon-celebration by Jesus’ Name! For example in Bulgaria, there is a Thracian “christianized” pagan “christmas” ritual festival every year. Sacrifice of animals, magic water rituals, pictures of mother god and sun god, fire dancers, dreams will come true this night, and many more things such as this, for the Xmas Dec.25 flesh-orgy, as well as the fertility goddess worship with eggs and bunny rabbits that pagans call “easter”….
Charles Spurgeon (considered probably the most Christ-centered teacher since the Apostle Paul) wrote these words about Christmas, in the late 1800’s, in London:
“When it can be proved that the observance of Christmas, Whitsuntide, and other Popish festivals was ever instituted by a divine statute, we also will attend to them, but not till then. It is as much our duty to reject the traditions of men, as to observe the ordinances of the Lord. We ask concerning every rite and rubric, “Is this a law of the God of Jacob?” and if it be not clearly so, it is of no authority with us, who walk in Christian liberty. (from Charles Spurgeon’s Treasury of David on Psalm 81:4.)
“We have no superstitious regard for times and seasons. Certainly, we do not believe in the present ecclesiastical arrangement called “Christmas.” We find no Scriptural warrant whatever for observing any day as the birthday of the Savior, and consequently, its observance is a superstition, because not of divine authority. Superstition has fixed most positively the day of our Savior’s birth, although there is no possibility of discovering when it occurred…. It was not ‘till the middle of the third century that any part of the Church celebrated the nativity of our Lord; and it was not ‘till very long after the Western Church had set the example, that the Eastern adopted it.… Probably the fact is that the ‘holy’ days were arranged to fit in with the heathen festivals.
We venture to assert, that if there be any day in the year, of which we may be pretty sure that it was *not* the day on which the Savior was born, it is the 25th of December. “How absurd to think we could do it (celebrate the birth of Christ) in the spirit of the world, with a Jack Frost clown, a deceptively worldly Santa Claus, and a mixed program of sacred truth with fun, deception, and fiction. If it be possible to honor Christ in the giving of gifts, I cannot see how while the gift, giver, and recipient are all in the spirit of the world. The Catholics and high Church Episcopalians may have their “Christmas” one day in 365, but we have a Christ gift the entire year.” (Charles H Spurgeon December 24, 1871)
12/22/2003
