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Santa Claus = Satan's claws

The Pope will will be the Pope no matter what... He is infallible in as much as he speaks the " true Faith " if he doesn't, " the seat of Peter ramains Infallible ".

John 6:66-68 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition 66 Because of this many of his disciples turned back and no longer went about with him. 67 So Jesus asked the twelve, “Do you also wish to go away?” 68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom can we go? You have the words of eternal life. The government of the church is the teaches of God and his apostles. 6:2? Large crowd “ women, kids, elders man’s 6:10 5 thousand man All those people left Jesus, and only 12 man stayed with Jesus, his apostles. Not a man-made organization. But a group of men establish by God himself. Who led the teachings of the church. When everyone else abandon Jesus. I believe in one Catholic and apostolic church. We Catholics go by the teachings of the apostles. The word Catholic means universal church for everyone. Ephesians 1:20-23 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition 20 God[a] put this power to work in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the age to come. 22 And he has put all things under his feet and has made him the head over all things for the church, 23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all. Jesus is the head of the church What church Matthew 16:18-19 A church establish in the year 33 by Jesus , and continue to teaching through his apostles. Lead by Peter the key holder

The problem is not with the principle, but with the man who abuses of it right now.

#1. The Pope decides and interprets what is faith and morals, what is understood universally by the whole Church, and all other conditions of ex-cathedra. No court can say otherwise. #2. The Pope can change the conditions for ex-cathedra according to his whims above and beyond what is already in Canon Law. Or, can decide not to follow Canon Law at all. No court cay say otherwise. #3. The Pope can make any statement he wishes as ex-cathedra according to his whim. No court can say otherwise. #4. The Pope is protected from error in ex-cathedra and formal heresy in his authoritative magisterium which somehow mysteriously diminishes his free will as an individual. If a Pope wanted to teach heresy or error ex-cathedra or authoritative in his magisterium, no one could stop him but God. And no court could say otherwise. #5. And if it be the case the Pope teaches error or heresy ex-cathedra or authoritative in his magisterium, it would be binding on all Catholics to believe thus creating a dilemma of believing in the heresy of papal error vs the actual theological error that is being taught and will have their soul in danger either way. And this heresy or error if taught ex-cathedra, is not reformable by any future Pope and would be binding on all Catholics going forward thus never resolving the issue.

No thank you to idolatry. Acts 10:25; Galatians 2:11; 1 Corinthians 8:7-13; 2 Peter 2; Revelation 19:10; 22:8, 9.

Agreed indeed 👍

Beautiful video. St Therese also had a deep and profound devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus and at her canonization it is also recorded that her sisters said as great as St Therese devotion was to the Child Jesus it cannot compare with that of her devotion to the Holy Face and it is to this devotion which lead her to merit so high a degree of sanctity.

Beautiful video. St Therese also had a deep and profound devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus and at her canonization it is also recorded that her sisters said as great as St Therese devotion was to the Child Jesus it cannot compare with that of her devotion to the Holy Face and it is to this devotion which lead her to merit so high a degree of sanctity.

No one has any idea when Jesus was supposedly born, when he actually died or even when he lived. Most of the calculations used to determine his birth are just sad excuses to justify something that is irrelevant...same as the whole BS of the nativity. First of all if Mary was impregnated by the 'holy spirit' then why does she need to do through the whole 39 weeks.....surely it could of been immediate....because if a supernatural force can impregnat someone then why is there a need to follow human gestation timescales....unless impregnated by another human. Went to Bethlehem for a census, that there is no record for, or even if there was on recorded, then there was never a requirement to go to your ancestral home....and as David was born in Bethlehem, but had a father, who had a father, who had a father, who had a father etc.....where is the ancestral home. So this bit can be ignored. Killing of the First Born, up to the age of 5. First of all at the time of Jesus's supposed birth it was not Herod the Great in power ie the one attributed to this story in Matthew. Or Jesus and John the Baptist flitted between Herod the Great, Herod Antipas, Herod Agrippa or possible Herod Archelaus, as the gospel stories flit between their reigns and jurisdictions randomly. There is also no record of any such thing happening....and as the Herodian dynasty was not well regarded I would of thought that the killing of 140,000 first born children would of been recorded somewhere. Also as Herod supposedly chose a 5 year timescale, then the Magi had no actual idea when Jesus was born, so a coverall term was chosen in regard to who died. So now we have to believe that from the time of his birth that Jesus's parent and Joseph stayed in Bethlem for a long period of time (the power stone mason and family) had to support themselves in a different city to fit in with the nativity story. Then on learning of Herods plans the 'maybe' fled to Egypt for a number of years until Herods death, even though there is no record of any Herod dying in that period, as Herod the Great died before Jesus' supposed birth. So on this small snapshot you can see that any suggestion of when Jesus was born....which year, let alone which month, and especially which date is pure BS and there is no way of verifying it. Also as Jesus would of used the Hebrew calender and month/date structure then this bs regarding Pre/Post Roman calender which shows these arguments as misnomers.....because no contemporary record of Jesus or his birth or death so another pointless basis of evidence. Some quack theologian decided to pin a date for Jesus's birth with some lame basis of flawed understanding and evidence, this was given to those in charge to rubber stamp (which records show took quite a while to agree) and then the 'true' date of Jesus's birth was published....and whether that used a previous pagan celebration or day is irrelevant as the date used is made up and is in essense false. Just a few points to generate theists ire and raise their heckles.....

In other words, you are protesting the current Roman Catholic Church and want to reform it. Good luck. Others tried that 500 years ago and folks like you still blame them for trying.

Thank you Jesus alpha Omega yes I believe your word and you are my savior and my shelter and my hope and I love you 🎉🎉🎉🎉 amen

Faith is our trust in God to love others!

As an atheist, any comparison between the two traditions is irrelevant. I would point out something more ridiculous about the life of Jesus, such as why the heck would the Son of God choose to turn water into wine at Cana, as his first miracle? Why would he wait to the age of roughly 30 to begin his ministry; was he too busy making furniture with Joseph (the guy that was his dad, but also wasn’t)? The list goes on and on. When I was in elementary school, I thought everyone knew that the stories in the Bible were not literal. As I got older, the thought that rational people actually do believe the earth is only about 4000 years old and every animal on the planet somehow fit onto Noah’s Ark, was mind blowing. There is nothing wrong with believing in something greater than yourself or a higher power, but believing the Old and New Testament are books of actual truth is alarming to me.

Puritans are even less deserving of respect than Lutherans imo

Christmas makes even less sense when it’s obvious that Jesus is just another made up story from the Wholly Fable.

To the video maker, your claims about French language/culture are very inaccurate and embarrassing... Why did you want to make it so complicated? Père simply means father. Noël is by no means an exclamation or similar to Hallelujah. It just means Christmas! Père Noël just means Father Christmas! And it's not pèr-uh. Take off that additional "uh" sound you made.

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Thank you for your work. Thanks be to God for persons like you. Thank you to the 3 Magi. May His Kingdom come. May Jesus and Mary reign upon all the nations!

Dude, i love you channel! May God bless you and your entire family.

It was Celtic, wasn't it? Joel? edit: they changed it fitting the German holiday, they didn't steal it.

In your speech and responses to this video, you comment on Protestants. In your view, these will surely end up in hell. Extraordinary, because the whole of Protestantism would not have existed if the Roman Catholic clergy in the past (and unfortunately partly still today) had really cared about the criticism of the brothers and sisters of the Devotia Moderna (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devotio_Moderna). Read the work of Thomas Kempis (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_%C3%A0_Kempis) and his Imitatio Christi (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imitation_of_Christ). All this took place in the 1300s, i.e. well before the Reformation. Also Catholic is derived from the Greek ‘Κατα όλε’ meaning universal. Even the Protestant Confession therefore speaks of a Holy Universal Christian Church. This includes all Christians, also the Roman Catholics and even our Orthodox Russian brethren and sisters. But I fear that you are one of those Roman Catholics who uncritically swallow everything a stuffy person who fancies himself a ‘priest’ brings up.

Christmas is an amalgamation of pagan and Christian traditions. Clearly it is. Mistletoe, yule log, etc give away that fact. Saturnalia and Yule were big before Christianity, that is undeniable. The Christians used those and built a Christmas tradition on top of them. Maybe you choose to ignore the older traditions, but the majority don't.

This is fake news trying to justify religious Christian MYTHS. Is it just a coincidence that ALL the pagan 4 major celebrations of the change of seasons. Catholic was developed by men , period.

"Satans Claws"...That is the enemy of Christianity...the wickedness within, greed, envy, etc etc...The Chunky Coca Cola dude pretty much diverts the attention of the true meaning of Christmas to a more materialistic celebration...The Red Robes, the enslaved children in the North Pole, overindulged in all vices of mortals, food, drink, leisure, and obviously...what comes out of the chimneys 🤔? Fire...the toxic residue of fire remains...Like Satan... Jesus birthday is the whole point of Christmas!...Keep it Christian...keep it about Family, God's presence in the humanity by the gift of Life, hope...love, regardless of the situation...God is what matters...😌❤️✝️❤️

1 Timothy 2:5 ESV [5] For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, Acts 4:12 ESV [12] And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

I’ve never understood Santa Claus

Friend, there are many things wrong with what you believe: 1. You think I'm, "pretend to know more than them?" I'm not! 2. You think the Bible was first "compiled" by the "Catholic Church." It wasn't! 3. You think the, "Catholic Church" is what "spread the faith." They were started after this. 4. You think the, "Catholic Church" did not take the old traditions of worship to Pagan gods and try to make the "Christian". They can't hid from what they did! 5 You think the, "Catholic Church" is the Church that Jesus built, that he said, "the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." It's not! Now, what do I know. I know what history says and what the Bible says about all of this. For you and others that only look to what the "Catholic Church" says, for they don't have the power over nations, that they once had, and the facts that you and they deni, can't be hid any more. you want to know know the truth about any of this and more than that you don't want others to know it.

Friend, there are many things wrong with what you believe: 1. You think I'm, "pretend to know more than them?" I'm not! 2. You think the Bible was first "compiled" by the "Catholic Church." It wasn't! 3. You think the, "Catholic Church" is what "spread the faith." They were started after this. 4. You think the, "Catholic Church" did not take the old traditions of worship to Pagan gods and try to make the "Christian". They can't hid from what they did! 5 You think the, "Catholic Church" is the Church that Jesus built, that he said, "the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." It's not! Now, what do I know. I know what history says and what the Bible says about all of this. For you and others that only look to what the "Catholic Church" says, for they don't have the power over nations, that they once had, and the facts that you and they deni, can't be hid any more. you want to know know the truth about any of this and more than that you don't want others to know it.

I am a Protestant and grateful for the piety and theology of the Puritans. However, I am quite happy to accept that Christmas is not a copy of Saturnalia. There is also evidence that Jesus actual birthday is on a different day from December 25. The debate continues.

Christ Mass is a Christian celebration but the day it was arbitrarily/deliberately assigned to, was the pagan high holiday of the Solstice, December 25th in the Julian Calendar. The celebration of the two solstices and the two equinoxes, i.e. the cardinal dates representing the four seasons, were observed and celebrated for tens of thousands of years before the putative birth of Christ. The birth of Christ is your "reason for the season" but you don't own the season. But it's OK - pagans are quite willing to share midwinter with you, so chill.

I had a video show up recently where the woman claimed she had a NDE. She said Jesus told her that Christmas Day celebrations had pagan origins. She claimed she was shown hell and how anyone, children to adult who had any involvement at all with Christmas would be eternally punished in hell since they were then actually worshiping a false God! I watched a bit of it. It was horrible explaining all the tortures dealt out to anyone who participated in any aspect of Christmas!

Great video! I am curious how would you respond to the claim that Christmas on December 25th is not accurate today because of the change from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar? Is December 25th the same today as it would have been 2000 years ago?

Evil lies

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The way of the season, the fruitcake, the yulelog, and the Christmas tree. It all comes from the world, the way of the heathen, and not the LORD. Jer 7:18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. They gathered wood for the fire, the yulelog; they knead the dough, for the cakes, like the fruitcake; Also the tree, decked with silver, gold, and more, it is the work of the hands, set upright and fastened with hammer and nails, so it move not: Jer 10:3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. Jer 10:4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. Jer 10:5 They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good. The season, is it truly for our Lord, I think not.

The season, is the way of the heathen: Jer 10:2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. Thus saith the Lord, learn not the way of the Heathen,.... Of the nations round about them, particularly the Chaldeans; meaning their religious ways, their ways of worship, their superstition and idolatry, which they were very prone unto, and many of which they had learned already; and were in danger of learning more, as they were about to be dispersed in divers countries, and especially in Chaldea, which was a very superstitious and idolatrous nation: and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; by which are meant, not any extraordinary signs, such as are predicted in Jol_2:30, and by our Lord, as signs of the last destruction of Jerusalem, and of his coming, and of the end of the world, Mat_24:3, but ordinary signs, which are no other than the sun, and moon, and stars, which are set up for signs and seasons, and days and years, Gen_1:14, and as long as they are observed as signs of places and of times, it is well enough; but if more is attributed unto them, as portending things future, and as having an influence on the birth and death, dispositions and actions of men, when in such a conjunction, situation, and position, it is wrong; which is what is called judicial astrology, and to which the Chaldeans were much addicted, and is here condemned; nor should men possess themselves with fears with what shall befall them on such accounts, since all things are under the determination, direction, and influence of the God of heaven, and not the signs of them; especially they should not be so observed as to be worshipped, and to be so awed by them as to fear that evil things will befall, if they are not; and to this sense is the Syriac version, "the signs of the heavens do not worship, or fear". Jarchi interprets them of the eclipses of the luminaries, which may be thought to forbode some dreadful things (l): for the Heathen are dismayed at them; which is a reason why the people of God should not, because it is a Heathenish fear; or, "though the Heathen" (m), &c.; though they are frightened at such and such conjunctions and positions of the stars, and fear that such and such dreadful things will follow; and never regard the supreme Being and first cause of all things; yet such who have the knowledge of the true God, and a revelation of his will, ought not to be terrified hereby; see Isa_47:13. This text is brought to prove that the Israelites are not under any planet (n); since the Heathens are dismayed at them, but not they. John Gill. (l) Vid. T. Bab. Succa, fol. 29. 1. (m) כי יחתו "quamvis consterni soleant", Vatablus. (n) T. Bab. Sabbat, fol. 156. 1.

The Lord, our God, does not change for a season: Mal 3:6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. Heb 13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. This season, that is esteemed among men, this Christ-mass, that God has no joy in, that Jesus Christ has no part in. We should understand that our God, even our Lord, changes not, no, not even for a season, a season that is made by man, for man, and not to please the Lord of our salvation, for in Him if no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Jas 1:16 Do not err, my beloved brethren. Jas 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

They that justify the season, that is esteemed among men: Luk 16:14 And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. Luk 16:15 And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. When we try to tell people the truth about this season of covetous and idolatry, many will derided us, as if we knew not what we talk about. For this season is very esteemed among all and not just the saved but also the lost, the sinner that knows not the true love of God and cares even less, what the reason for the season is. For they covet after all that they may gain and gather around the same idols that have form days of old been erected to the gods of false ways that are an abomination in the sight of the only true and living God.

The Tradition of Christ's mass is a man made day. Col 2:6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: Col 2:7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. Col 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. We can not make the unclean clean, and any thing that man uses as an idol is an idol still, no matter what we do with it. The Bible says, they worshiped under every green tree, they put gifts under them, just as people do to day. God's people were to burn all of it and not learn the ways of the heathen, but hey did not obey God, they did evil in his sight, and we do the same, for God does not change.

Christ's mass and the winter solstice a pagan day: What did God say about the false ways of worship: Destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire. Destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree. 1Sa 15:20 And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. 1Sa 15:21 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God in Gilgal. 1Sa 15:22 And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. 1Sa 15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king. 1Sa 15:24 And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and thy words: because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice. God said, Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. And rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Learn the truth, put away the traditions of men and be free from this sin.

Christ's mass and the winter solstice: pagans worshiped the sun god on the winter solstice this is spoken of in the Bible. In 1451 BC, 1787 years before Christ's mass would be started by the Church of Rome. The people worshiped false gods on the winter and summer solstice and God would have His people not learn the ways of the pagans: Deu 12:1 These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth. Deu 12:2 Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: Deu 12:3 And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place. Deu 12:4 Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God. We that have been saved should not learn the ways of the pagans, the same ways that the Church of Rome made a part of their traditions, the same ways that so many Christians love to keep today. Let us that love the Lord, put away our false ways, let us destroy them before they destroy us. Learn the truth, put away the traditions of men and be free from this sin.

Xmas Twenty-fifth of December, another year trod, And the world once again is serving it's "god"; But alas, for God's children are joining in too, Forgive them, dear Lord, they know not what they do! How well I remember and surely realize, I, too, was in bondage 'til You opened my eyes; Thank You, precious Lord, for setting me free From this thing called Xmas, real idolatry! Oh, I remember how hard it was to break The tradition of men, and finally forsake This heathen holiday, even though I'd heard That it was pagan, forbidden in God's word. No time to read my Bible, to praise Your name, or pray, Too busy getting ready for that "most important" day; No thought of your second coming, though You bade me watch And wait, For I must keep Your "birthday", though You gave me not the date. No harm, thought I, to decorate and have a Xmas tree, To gather 'round and gifts exchange with friends and family; If I don't they'll think me narrow, and may even call me "Scrouge", It's not like I would celebrate with revelry and booze. And thus, deceiving self, went I from year to year, 'Til one day, Lord, Your still, small voice came through quite clear, Come out and be ye separate, touch not the unclean thing, Be not yoked with unbelievers, this message You did bring. Then I started studying to find out the reason why, Xmas is an abomination to my God on high; And to my great amazement, this is what I found, That I was an idolater on very dangerous ground. For Xmas, with all it's customs can be traced to ancient Rome; 'Twas there that the Catholic Church adopted as it's own, Astarte, queen of heaven, and Tammuz, her son, Originating with Nimrod and ancient Babylon. The story of Tammuz, the sun god, and his resurrection, How strange that it should parellel the life of God, the Son! How very sly of Satan to take these gods, these very same, And deceive the people of the world by changing their names. Thus we see the great deceiver up to his greatest tricks, Changing their names to Mary and Jesus, oh, how very slick! How easy to take feast day with it's revelry and disgrace, And change it's name to Xmas for the Christians to embrace. So when they say put Christ back in Xmas, I just stand and stare, You never could put Him back, for He was never there! My God is a jealous God, He will never suffer loss, Nor share His glory with another, not even Santa Claus! A Poem by Kathryn Parrish.

Christ's mass and the winter solstice: pagans worshiped the sun god on the winter solstice this is spoken of in the Bible. In 1451 BC, 1787 years before Christ's mass would be started by the Church of Rome. The people worshiped false gods on the winter and summer solstice and God's judgment was against them: Deu 7:4 For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly. Deu 7:5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire. The Gospel went out to the world and people were set fee from false gods and they destroyed their graven images, groves, and alters to the false gods and then the Church of Rome, again changed from the true and living way to a false way, the Pagan ways that God's people had turned from to worship the true and living God. Learn the truth, put away the traditions of men and be free from this sin.

XMAS (part 1) A. W. Pink Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: {2} Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. {3} For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the ax. (Jeremiah 10:1-3) Christmas is coming! Quite so; but what is "Christmas"? Does not the very term itself denote its source - "Christ-mass." Thus it is of Romish origin, brought over from Paganism. But, says some one, Christmas is the time when we commemorate the Savior's birth. It is? And who authorized such commemoration? Certainly God did not. The Redeemer bade His disciples "remember" Him in His death, but there is not a word in Scripture, from Genesis to Revelation, which tells us to celebrate His birth. Moreover, who knows when, in what month, He was born? The Bible is silent thereon. Is it without reason that the only "birthday" commemorations mentioned in God's Word are Pharaoh's (Genesis 40:20) and Herod's (Matthew 14:6)? Is this recorded "for our learning"? If so, have we prayerfully taken it to heart? And who is it that celebrates "Christmas"? The whole "civilized world." Millions who make no profession of faith in the blood of the Lamb, who "despise and reject Him," and millions more who while claiming to be His followers yet in works deny Him, join in merrymaking under the pretense of honoring the birth of the Lord Jesus. Putting it on its lowest ground, we would ask, "Is it fitting that His friends should unite with His enemies in a worldly round of fleshly gratification?" Does any truly born-again soul really think that He whom the world cast out is either pleased or glorified by such participation in the world's joys? Verily, "the customs of the people are vain"; and it is written, "Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil" (Exodus 23:2) Some will argue for the "keeping of Christmas" on the ground of "giving the kiddies a good time." But why do this under the cloak of honoring the Savior's birth? Why is it necessary to drag in His holy name in connection with what takes place at that season of carnal jollification? Is this taking the little ones with you out of Egypt (Exodus 10:9, 10) a type of the world, or is it not plainly a mingling with the present day Egyptians in their "pleasures of sin for a season"? (Hebrews 11:25) Scripture says, "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." (Proverbs 22:6) Scripture does command God's people to bring up their children "in the nurture and admonition of the Lord" (Ephesians 6:4), but where does it stipulate that it is our duty to give the little ones a "good time"? Do we ever give the children "a good time" when we engage in anything upon which we cannot fittingly ask the Lord's blessing? There are those who do abstain from some of the grosser carnalities of the "festive season," yet are they nevertheless in cruel bondage to the prevailing custom of "Christmas" namely that of exchanging "gifts." We say "exchanging" for that is what it really amounts to in many cases. A list is kept, either on paper or in memory, of those from whom gifts were received last year, and that for the purpose of returning the compliment this year. Nor is this all: great care has to be taken that the "gift" made to the friend is worth as much in dollars and cents as the one they expect to receive from him or her. Thus, with many who can ill afford it, a considerable sum has to be set aside each year with which to purchase things simply to send them out in return for others which are likely to be received. Thus a burden has been bound on them which not a few find hard to bear. But what are we to do? If we fail to send out "gifts' our friends will think hard of us, probably deem us stingy and miserly. The honest course is to go to the trouble of notifying them - by letter if at a distance - that from now on you do not propose to send out any more "Christmas gifts" as such. Give your reasons. State plainly that you have been brought to see that "Christmas merry-making" is entirely a thing of the world, devoid of any Scriptural warrant; that. it is a Romish institution, and now that you see this, you dare no longer have any fellowship with it (Ephesians 5:11); that you are the Lord's "free man" (1 Corinthians 7:22), and therefore you refuse to be in bondage to a costly custom imposed by the world. What about sending out "Christmas cards" with a text cf Scripture on them? That also is an abomination in the sight of God. Why? Because His Word expressly forbids all unholy mixtures; Deuteronomy. 22:10, 11 typified this. What do we mean by an "unholy mixture"? This: the linking together of the pure Word of God with the Romish "Christ-mass." By all means send cards (preferably at some other time of the year) to your ungodly friends, and Christians too, with a verse of Scripture, but not with "Christmas" on it. What would you think of a printed program of a vaudeville having Isaiah 53:5 at the foot of it? Why, that it was altogether out of place, highly incongruous. But in the sight of God the circus and the theater are far less obnoxious than the "Christmas celebration" of Romish and Protestant "churches." Why? Because the latter are done under the cover of the holy name of Christ; the former are not. "But the path of the just is as the shining Light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day." (Proverbs 4:18) Where there is a heart that really desires to please the Lord, He graciously grants increasing knowledge of His will. If He is pleased to use these lines in opening the eyes of some of His dear people to recognize what is a growing evil, and to show them that they have been dishonoring Christ by linking the name of the Man of Sorrows (and such He was, when on earth) with a "Merry Christmas," then join with the writer in a repentant confessing of this sin to God, seeking His grace for complete deliverance from it, and praise Him for the light which He has granted you concerning it. Beloved fellow Christian, "The coming of the Lord draweth nigh." (James 5:8) Do we really believe this? Believe it not because the Papacy is regaining its lost temporal power, but because God says so - "for we walk by faith, not by sight." (2 Corinthians 5:7) If so, what effects does such believing have on our walk? This may be your last Christmas one earth. During it the Lord may descend from heaven with a shout to gather His own to Himself. Would you like to be summoned from a "Christmas party" to meet Him in the air? The call for the moment is, "Go ye out to meet Him" (Matthew 25:6) out from a Godless Christendom, out from the Christ deserted "churches," out from the horrible burlesque of "religion" which now masquerades under His name. "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad." (2 Corinthians 5:10) How solemn and searching! The Lord Jesus declared that "every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment." (Matthew 12:36) If every "idle word" is going to be taken note of, then most assuredly will be every wasted energy, every wasted dollar, every wasted hour! Should we still be on earth when the closing days of this year arrive, let writer and reader earnestly seek grace to live and act with the judgment seat of Christ before us. His "well done" will be ample compensation far the sneers and taunts which we may now receive from Christless souls. Does any Christian reader imagine for a moment that when he or she shall stand before their holy Lord, that they will regret having lived "too strictly" on earth? Is there the slightest danger of His reproving any of His own because they were "too extreme" in "abstaining from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul" (1 Peter 2:11)? We may gain the good will and good word of worldly religionists today by our compromisings on "little (?) points," but shall we receive His smile of approval on that Day? Oh to be more concerned about what He thinks, and less concerned about what perishing mortals think. "Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil" (Exodus 23:2) Ah, it is an easy thing to float with the tide of popular opinion; but it takes much grace, diligently sought from God, to swim against it. Yet that is what the heir of heaven is called on to do: to "Be not conformed to this world" (Romans 12:2), to deny self, take up the cross, and follow a rejected Christ. How sorely does both writer and reader need to heed that word of the Savior, "Be hold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown." (Revelation 3:11) Oh that each of us may be able to truthfully say, "I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep Thy Word." (Psalms 119:101) Our final word is to the pastors. To you the Word of the Lord is, "Be thou an example of believers in word, in deportment, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity." (1 Timothy 4:12) Is it not true that the most corrupt "churches" you know of, where almost every fundamental of the faith is denied, will have their "Christmas celebrations?" Will you imitate them? Are you consistent to protest against unscriptural methods of "raising money," and then to sanction unscriptural "Christmas services"? Seek grace to firmly but lovingly set God's Truth on this subject before your people, and announce that you can have no part in following Pagan, Romish, and Worldly customs.

Christ's mass and the winter solstice: pagans worshiped the sun god on the winter solstice this is spoken of in the Bible. In 629 BC, 965 years before Christ's mass would be started by the Church of Rome. The customs of the people were vain for they worshiped a false god: Jer 10:1 Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: Jer 10:2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. Jer 10:3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. Jer 10:4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. Jer 10:5 They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good. Jer 10:6 Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might. The tradition of putting up a tree and deck it with silver and with gold and all manor of things is not new, and it was not started by the Church of Rome in 336 AD, but it was changed by them for the wrong purpose, they did it to make the Pagans fell at home in the Roman Church. But Christians were not deceived then like they are now, they knew that this was not of God, but men that made this tradition. The Gospel had set people free from their Pagan ways and now the Roman Church was leading them back to their old ways. Learn the truth, put away the traditions of men and be free from this sin.

XMAS Charles. H. Spurgeon The following extract is from the late C. H. Spurgeon's exposition of Psalm 81 in the Treasury of David. "Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day." (Verse 3) Announce the sacred month, the beginning of months, when the Lord brought his people out of the house of bondage. Clear and shrill let the summons be which calls all Israel to adore the Redeeming Lord. “In the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.” Obedience is to direct our worship, not whim and sentiment: God's appointment gives a solemnity to rites and times which no ceremonial pomp or hierarchical ordinance could confer. The Jews not only observed the ordained month, but that part of the month which had been divinely set apart. The Lord's people in the olden time welcomed the times appointed for worship; let us feel the same exultation, and never speak of the Sabbath as though it could be other than “a delight” and “honourable.” Those who plead this passage as authority for their man-appointed feasts and fasts must be moonstruck. We will keep such feasts as the Lord appoints, but not those which Rome or Canterbury may ordain. "For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob." (Verse 4) It was a precept binding upon all the tribes that a sacred season should be set apart to commemorate the Lord's mercy; and truly it was but the Lord's due, he had a right and a claim to such special homage. 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.

Shame on you for you outright lies, to justify this sin, for God has no pleasure in this Christ-mass tradition that so many are taking part in. History and the Bible do not lie. Christ's mass, the true history of it: In 336 AD Feast of Winter Solstice or Feast of midwinter or the Nativity or the Feast of the Nativity or Christ's mass or Christmas, By the Church of Rome, The first recorded Christ's mass celebration was in Rome on December 25, AD 336. There are those who have determined not only the year of our Lord's birth, but also the day; and they say that it took place in the 28th year of Augustus, and in the 25th day of [the Egyptian month] Pachon [May 20] ... Further, others say that He was born on the 24th or 25th of Pharmuthi [April 20 or 21]. Some say Christmas does not appear on the lists of festivals given by the early Christian writers. Origen and Arnobius both fault the pagans for celebrating birthday on the winter solstice. Some say Xmas, this is an abbreviation of Christmas found particularly in print, based on the initial letter chi (Χ) in Greek Khrīstos (Χριστός), "Christ", though numerous style guides discourage its use. This abbreviation has precedent in Middle English. Christmas played a role in the Arian controversy of the fourth century. After this controversy ran its course, the prominence of the holiday declined for a few centuries. The feast regained prominence after 800 when Charlemagne was crowned emperor on Christmas Day. In Puritan England, Christmas was against the law (and in the USA untill 1686), as it was associated with drunkenness and other misbehavior. It was restored as a legal holiday in England in 1660, but remained disreputable in the minds of many people. In the early 19th century, Christmas festivities and services became widespread with the rise of the Oxford Movement in the Church of England that emphasized the centrality of Christmas in Christianity and charity to the poor, along with Washington Irving, Charles Dickens, and other authors emphasizing family, children, kind-heartedness, gift-giving, and Santa Claus (from Irving), or Father Christmas (from Dickens).

My favorite is the one that says shepherds wouldn't have had their animals out in December because it was too cold; when a simple Google search of the median temperature of the region is HARDLY too cold for sheep to graze.

No thanks. One lie is the same as all the rest.