Questions and comments
about Christmas
The
following pages contain some very straight forward questions and statements
concerning the Christmas holiday. These
questions and statements are meant to provoke serious thought by those who are presently
observing the season. It is very sad
that many have not taken the apostle Paul’s admonition
in 1st Thessalonians 5:21, to prove all things.
We have grown up in a society that is heaped in religious traditions and
customs. How many have taken the time to
know whether or not such traditions are really based upon the Word of God, the
Bible. Very few, for we have taken it
for granted that our parents and our grandparents and our ministers and our
teachers and friends and families, and all the experts are all correct in what
they have been led to believe and then pass on to us. Are you actually going to base your salvation
and your very relationship with the great God of the Universe solely upon what
others believe rather than proving it for yourself?
Jesus said
that there are blind leaders of the blind and they both shall fall into the
ditch. Salvation is a personal
thing. It is just between you and God,
not between you and God and those that you have believed your whole life. Christmas is just one of those things that we
have believed. There are many other
erroneous doctrines that we have believed as well, but let’s just take one at a
time. These questions are not meant as a
condemnation of your Christmas observance.
It is meant as a means of opening your eyes to the deception involved in
keeping a false holy day not sanctioned as holy within the Bible. I will say this with all honesty,
you are not honoring Jesus through Christmas.
Guess who it is then that your are
honoring?
Remain open
minded as you read this document and allow the Spirit of God, the Spirit of
Truth to prick your heart. I have given
several scriptural and historical references, obviously not all, but you must
still prove it for yourself. The
information needed to prove it is out there.
There are many scriptural evidences as well as historical evidence to
prove the truth about Christmas. Will
you remain willingly ignorant of the truth, or will you do as the Word commands
us to do. I’m confident that if you have
an open mind and a heart for the Truth, and if the Lord God is truly ready to
call you, you will come to understand the error of Christmas. The Bible though, is like a giant
puzzle. Here a little and there a
little. It takes time and a diligent
attitude to search for the deep things of God.
Unfortunately most people are not serious enough about having a proper
relationship with God to ever admit that they may be in error and thus they
remain in their sins. They become
willingly ignorant of the Truth.
I do not
condemn you for your observance of Christmas for I was once as you now
are. It is when our sins are revealed to
us that we become responsible of repenting of those sins. May this simple series of questions and
statements reveal to you the sin and abomination of Christmas, that you might
repent and have a deeper relationship with the living Christ.
All scripture quotations from the King
James version unless otherwise noted
1. Do
you know what Christmas really means?
2. Can
you find your definition in the Bible?
3. Is
the term “Christmas” even in the Bible?
4. Can
you honestly state that Christmas is a Christian Holiday?
5. Can
you find Christmas as a sanctified holy day in the Bible? If so were
is your proof texts?
Is your proof of Christmas being Christian really
based upon the Bible?
6. Is
Christmas ever commanded of God to be observed by Christians?
7. Is
Christmas a commandment of God or a tradition of man?
8. Did
you know that Jesus said that if we try and worship Him through
traditions and commandments of man rather than through His
commandments and doctrines,
that our
whole worship is in vain to Him? (vain=Counts as
nothing) Mark 7:1-13; Matthew 15:7-9;
Psalms 119:126
9. If
Christmas is Christian then why do so many non-Christians and heathen nations
observe Christmas?
10. Can
you give Biblical proof that Jesus was born December 25th?
11. Have
you ever noticed that Christmas is short for the “Christ-Mass, a
Catholic doctrine?
12. Did you
know that in Catholicism, the Mass relates to the death of Christ,
not His birth?
Explain that one!
13. Do
you think that God would approve of worshipping Him through lies
and deception?
14. Can
you prove then, that Christmas is a Truth?
15. Can
you find one Biblical example of Jesus or any of the disciples or any
New
Testament Christians ever observing the birth of Christ as an annual
observance?
16. Can
you find one Biblical example of the Lord or any Christian ever
observing the birth of Christ in the Winter and shrouded in
the customs
associated with the modern Christmas traditions?
17. Do
you really know the origins of Christmas, the Christmas Tree,
it’s
customs of decorations, the holly wreath and the Santa
Claus, etc.?
18. Did you know that the eating of traditional
Christmas ham dinners is deemed by Jesus
as
unclean and abominable to eat? Leviticus
11; Isaiah 66:15-17
19. Did
you know that the term “holiday” is the combination of the two
words “holy” and “day?”
20. Can
you find a Biblical example of Christmas and it’s
associated traditions
being coined as a Holy Day?
21. Can
you prove from the Bible that there were three wise men?
22. Can
you prove from the Bible that the wise men ever saw baby Jesus in the manger?
23. Did you know that by observing Christmas along with the other
false holidays
that you
are disobeying God which brings you into the bondage of sin and thus
your are
still under the curse of the law or the death penalty? 1st John 3:4;
Romans 6:23; Galatians 4:8-11; Deuteronomy 12:29-32; 18:9-14
24. Did you know that ancient history shows that the traditions
surrounding
Christmas were being observed many
centuries before the birth of Jesus? (the
book
“10,000 Answers and Questions” by
Frederick J. Haskin)
25. Did you know that the Bible tells us that the Lord will
destroy those eating their Christmas Ham dinners when He returns? Isaiah 66:15-17
26. Did you know that the apostle Paul rebuked the Galatians (
Galatians 4:8-11
27. Did you know that the Bible tells us that people would turn
away from the truth (sound doctrine) and
would then turn to fables? 2nd Timothy
4:1-4
28. If Christmas is not true then it is a fable, so is it then
based upon sound doctrines or false doctrines?
Have we turned away from the truth?
29. Did you know that the Word of God commands God’s people not to
learn the ways of the heathen? Jeremiah
10:1,2
30. Did you
know that the Word of God commands God’s people not to decorate a tree, a
heathen custom, in conjunction with the worship and honor of the one true
God? Jeremiah 10:3,4
31. Did you
know that there are multiple Bible texts that condemn the use of green trees in
the worship of God because they were used for pagan rituals? Deuteronomy 12:2-4; 1st Kings 14:22-23; 2nd
Kings 16:1-4; 17:9,10; 2nd Chronicles 28:1-4; Isaiah 57:3-5; Jeremiah 2:19,20;
3:6,13;17:1-4; Ezekiel 6:11-14
32. Did you know that Christmas is of pagan origins and is based
upon sun worship?
33. Did you
know that the pagan people were sun worshippers? (Satan worship in
disguise) They believed that the sun was
their giver of life. It gave them heat
and light by which we must have in order to live and grow crops.
34. Did you
know that the pagan people believed that around what is now our December the
25th, was the birth of the Sun as the short winter days began to grow
longer? This was eventually merged with
Christianity and became the birth of the Son of God, and yet still held it’s pagan customs only candy coated in Christian stories
and terminology, such as Jesus the Son, just like the sun, is the light and the
giver of everlasting life. Thus
Christmas is based upon the legendary birth of the sun god, not the Son of
God. (the New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge)
35. Did you
know then that Christmas is a form of idolatry?
It is based upon the pagan worship of the birth of the Sun god, not the
birth of the Son of God. That is where
Sunday observance comes from as well.
That is why it is called the Sun-day.
This is where the worship of the East Star comes from as it rises in the
East and from which we have our Eaststar or Easter
sunrise services.
36. Did you
know that there is another Jesus, another gospel and another spirit that the majority are
following that is not the real Jesus, gospel and Holy Spirit of the Bible and
that Satan has his ministers who have infiltrated the Churches who are teaching
such things that are false doctrines. i.e. Christmas,
Lent, Sunday observance, Good Friday, Easter, the eating of unclean meats,
grace without obedience to the commandments, etc.? 2nd Corinthians 11:4,13-
15; Jude 4; 2nd Peter 2:1,2
37. Did you know that there is a great false Church in the world
today who has committed spiritual adultery with the nations of the earth
instead of remaining
true to
God? Did you know that this false Church
has made the inhabitants of the world blind drunk off of her false
doctrines? Did you know that this great
false Church has killed many true Christians over the years? Did you know that this Church is called a
great whore by God because of her relationship with the world? Did you know that this whore has had daughter
Churches who are involved in the same whoredoms as
she is and thus they are harlots as well?
Did you know that this whorish system is called Mystery Babylon the
Great because she has as her foundation, beliefs based upon the Mystery religions
originating in ancient
38. Did you know that the Bible tells us that our worship of God
can be no less than through Spirit and Truth?
John 4:23,24
39. If
Christmas in not true, (a lie) it is nowhere based upon sound Biblical
doctrines, then doesn’t that mean that we are trying to approach God through
lies and not the Truth?
40. Did you
know that Satan the devil is the father of all lies, yet mankind believes him,
and yet as a whole most will not believe the Truth that Jesus and His ministers
speak? John 8:43-45
41. Did you
know that the Bible states that if we say that we know Jesus, but will not keep
His commandments that we are then liars and the Truth (Jesus, His Word, His law, His Spirit, etc.) is not in us? If we disobey God’s commandments and yet
claim to know Him, then the real truth is not in us, we have then received another
Jesus, another gospel and another Spirit.
1st John 2:3,4
42. Did you
know that billions of lies are told during the Christmas season? We are told that Jesus is the reason for the
season. (a lie)
We are told that Jesus was born on December 25th. (a
lie) Parents tell there young children
these things, and then tell them about Santa Claus bringing them gifts if
they’ve been good. (a lie) If we tell our children lies about Santa, how
are they to ever really believe in the true and real Jesus? They will fall for the other Jesus. Do you think that Christians should be
liars? Exodus 20:16
43. Did you know that all liars will have their part in the lake
of fire if they do not repent?
Revelation 21:8
44. Should
we then be taking part in something (Christmas) that is riddled with lies?
45. Did you
know that the Bible tells us that the things that happened to ancient
46. Did you
know that the Bible tells us that ancient
47. Did you
know by rejecting God’s laws and observing the heathen idolatrous days,
(Christmas, Halloween, Easter, Sunday keeping, etc. must be repented of. They are not Biblical) God allowed Israel to go into captivity
(slavery, prison camps, martyrdom, etc.) to those heathen nations, and that
such a prophecy will come upon us as well, if we as a nation will not repent of
doing the same things? Amos 5:21-27; 2nd
Kings 17; 2nd Chronicles 28:5; Romans 15:4; 1st Corinthians 10:11
48. Did you
know that the Bible tells us that Jesus has Holy days that He commands His
people to keep and not to allow anyone to condemn His people for taking part in
them for they are still to this day shadows of things yet to come? Leviticus 23; Exodus 20:8-11; Colossians 2:16,17 These scriptures
along with many others show forth that these are God’s (Jesus) Holidays. We are to keep them today, for to do
otherwise is sin. A lifestyle of sin
will bring the curse of the law (death penalty) upon a person. Jesus came to free us from sin, not to be
freed to live in sin. Disobeying His
commandments is sin. A person must
repent of disobeying God and by the power of the true Holy Spirit we then can
live an obedient life unto Him. This is
true conversion. God has His holidays
that are based upon His Word. The
holidays that the
God. If so, then show me. I don’t want to be in error anymore than I
want you to continue in error.
49. Did you
know that Satan the devil is a great counterfeiter, and that he counterfeits
God’s holy days with his own days and festivals and seasons that brings honor
to him and dishonor unto God: His days
are Sunday observance, Halloween, Christmas, Valentines day, Lent, Easter, etc.
50. Can you find one example from the Bible stating anything that
even resembles that Jesus is the reason for the season?
51. Did you
know that almost every ancient culture has a mother and child in the worship of
their gods? This is idolatry. Mary the mother of Jesus is not to lifted up and honored as a member of the Godhead. She needed a savior from her sins just like
every other person who has lived and died.
Luke 1:46,47; Romans 3:23 The mother and child is of pagan origins
dating many years before the birth of Christ.
Satan was planning the Christmas deception long before Christ was ever
born.
52. Did you
know that the
53. Did you
know that the Lord does not change? So
however He thought about idolatry and sin in ancient times, He still feels the
same about it today. Malachi 3:6;
Hebrews 13:8 If pagan customs were an
abomination unto the Lord in ancient times, and worthy of allowing His people
to be taken into captivity for their correction, and knowing that He does not
change, what is our future if this nation does not repent of observing
Christmas and other heathen customs?
54. If the
Father wanted mankind and especially His people to observe the birth of the
Savior, don’t you think that He would have revealed to us the exact date of His
birth? Nowhere within the pages of the
Bible do we find the date of Christ’s birth, it is only His death do we have a
date and we are commanded to observe and memorialize His death, burial and
resurrection.) It can be somewhat
determined that He was born sometime in September or early October, but that is
as close as we could even speculate.
55. Did you know that Jeremiah the prophet was filled with a
righteous indignation and would not participate in the merry feasts of the
heathen? Jeremiah
Christmas!” They are saying “have a
merry feast! Just like Jeremiah
was so outraged over, because he knew that they were observing false feasts
that would bring the nation into captivity, and it did! If only they would keep the holy feast days
of the Lord God instead, and so it is with our nation today, our captivity is
at hand. Great Tribulation is
coming! We must repent!
56. Did you
know that Christmas was not among the earliest festivals of the Church, but
that it came from
57. Did you
know that Christmas was not celebrated in the first centuries of the Christian
Church nor was it instituted by Christ or the apostles nor by Bible authority,
but the feast was instituted in the Church in the fourth century? By the fifth century it was ordered to be
celebrated forever on the day of the old Roman feast of the birth of Sol, since
they did not know the exact date of Christ’s birth. (Encyclopedia Britannica, 1946 edition and
the Encyclopedia Americana, 1944 edition)
58. Did you
know that Jesus did not come to bring peace on the earth at the time of His
first coming as we hear in all the songs and displays during the Christmas
season? It was announced by the angels
at the time of His birth, Luke 2:13,14, but that was
for a future time, even yet in our future.
The only peace that Jesus brings today
is within the hearts of those who know and understand the Truth. He tells us Himself that He did not come to
bring peace at the time of His first coming.
Matthew 10:34-36; Luke 12:51-53
59. Did you know that the Lord desired for His people to remain
“cleansed from everything pagan?”
Nehemiah
60. Do you
know where the customs of hanging wreaths, holly and mistletoe comes from? These types of plants, just like the
evergreen tree that people use for Christmas, remain green year round. To the pagans, just like the New Agers of today, this is a symbol of fertility, of life
everlasting. This is also well-known in
the pagan Easter celebrations as well, wherein they use rabbits (one of the
most proliferate reproducers among all the animals) as well as using the eggs,
which again is a symbol of fertility.
Many green plants such as the holly plant which produces it’s berries during the Winter, which again symbolizes the
fertility and the reproduction of life even during the time of the year when
most everything else seems dead. It is
easy to see then where the tradition of kissing under the mistletoe came
from. Mistletoe is a parasite by the
way, just as is sin of observing pagan customs which sucks away from mankind
the true spiritual meanings of God’s ways.
Satan is a great deceiver and a master thereof.
61. What
about the custom of the old Yule Log or the Yuletide season? In ancient times
the sun worshippers would burn a special fire in the Winter,
during the time of the year when the Sun barely clips the southern skies and
the days are short. These fires were to
persuade the Sun god, the giver of life, to come back to them. It is very easy to see then how such pagan
customs were cloaked in Christian terms, for Christ is the great giver of life,
and yes it is a desire that He would return for His people. People unknowingly do the same thing
today. They have their Christmas
bonfires, their candle lighting and their Christmas lights. The ancient Druids would choose a special
circular shaped log to burn. The word
“Yule: means the word “wheel,” a circular shaped object as a symbol of the sun
when it was lit with fire. Even the
little round balls that hang from the Christmas trees are said to have come
from the little sun shaped idols or the fertility egg.
62. Do you know how Satan managed to seduce the Church into His paganistic religion through which he is receiving
worship? You must understand that
ancient
63. Did you
know that history shows us that observing Christmas was against the law among
the early American colonists? They
desired to be freed from many of the false doctrines of the old world. Eventually the same old false doctrines of
the old world moved into
64. Did you
know that it can be proven in the bible that Jesus commands us not to keep the
customs of the heathen that are not based upon the ways of God (such as what we
today call as Christmas?) Jeremiah 10:2;
Exodus 23:32,33; Deuteronomy 12:28-32
65. Do you
know the origins of Santa Claus and the reindeer? First off, if you haven’t yet noticed, but if
you take the letters from Santa and mix them around
you can get “Satan?” It may just be a
mere coincidence, but since Satan is the one instigating the whole pagan season
behind the scene, it shouldn’t surprise us.
In ancient
66. Did you
know that the Bible tells us that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? A little bad mixed with the good, makes the
whole thing bad. A little evil mixed
with righteousness makes the whole thing evil.
A little deception mixed with the Truth makes the whole thing a
deception. That is what Christmas
is. It is a deception of Satanic design
that has just enough truth from the Bible mixed in with it to make it look
Christian, but according to the Word of God then, that the whole thing is based
upon a deception. 1st Corinthians 5:6
67. Did you
know that we are not to eat food offered unto idols? We cannot have one foot in the things of the
world and the other foot in the things of God.
If we are friends with the world, we are enemies of God. We cannot come to the Lord’s
table and eat and yet at the same time partake of the cup of
demons. You are either for the Lord or
you are against Him. 1st Corinthians
10:18-22; James
4:4
68. Do you
think that we as individuals or within a Church organization have the rights to
change the standard by which all Truth is to be known? That is just what mankind and especially
professing Christians have done, whether they know that they are doing so or
not. They do not want to go by the rules
of God. They make up their own rules to
live by. Many are very liberal in their
thinking. They say the law of God has
been done away with. They do not want
God to tell them how they are to live.
Jesus told certain people, “why call me Lord,
and do not the things I say?” He is not
our Lord if we will not obey Him. The
old Roman Church thinks she can do this.
If you happen to be a protestant, you are not a very good one if you are
keeping Sunday, or Christmas or good Friday or Easter or Halloween and so
forth. Satan used the Roman Church to
bring these things into Christianity.
You are bowing to the edicts of the
69. Should
Jesus be our example? If you answer yes,
then can you find an example of Jesus telling His people to keep any of the
pagan holidays that mankind keeps today?
But you can find example after example of Jesus and His Church keeping the Sabbath day,
Passover and the days of unleavened bread, Pentecost, Trumpets, Atonement,
Feast of Tabernacles and the Last Great Day.
All of His Holy days give us a picture of how He is going to save the
world. Do you think that you are one of
His people? Then why don’t you obey the
Lord and repent of the things that we have been speaking of in this
document? The Holy days that I have just
mentioned are Biblical. They are
commanded of God. Christmas on the other
hand is not a holy day. It is not
mentioned in the Bible. Christmas is not
Biblical. Christmas is not commanded of
God.
70. Do you
think that you are honoring Jesus by observing a day of pagan origins? Do you think that you are honoring the birth
of Christ with a day that in Catholicism mean His
death. If you are a Protestant, do you not
yet know that you are keeping a Catholic holiday. To be a true Protestant means that you are
protesting the false doctrines of a whorish Church. By observing Christmas, you are following the
doctrines of the Roman Church. Does this
not make you begin to wonder how many other things that you believe are based
upon false doctrines? If you are a
Catholic, your leaders have deceived you.
It is vital then that we prove all things. Prove everything that you believe. Find out whether or not it is really based
upon the Bible. This ministry is not
only a Protestant unto the Catholic Church, but we are also Protestant unto the
I have asked many questions
and made many statements in this document.
Much more could be asked and stated.
I have collected much information about Christmas and other such days
that the Church and the world are observing.
I have spoken from some of that information in this document, but over
all tried to stay clear of what others have written and have tried to make some
simple statements. I gave just enough to give you a small picture of the Truth
of this subject. Just remember Christmas
is not Biblical just because it has added the story of Christ’s birth to
it. Can a leopard change his spots or
can we change the color of our skin?
Even if we could it still would not change who and what we are. Jeremiah
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