Well, it depends on the individual's interpretation
of the term Christian, I suppose...
If, by the term Christian, one is referring to a
Catholic, or Protestant; one who goes to their
denominational church house on a regular basis, and whose
beliefs and practices are based upon the traditions and
teachings of that denomination; then, yes, that person,
being a part of that religious system to which Jesus
refers in the scripture as "MYSTERY,
BABYLON, MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH",
would consider Christmas to be a Christian observance.
If, however, by the term Christian, one is
referring to a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ, whose
beliefs and practices are based wholly upon the testimony
and teaching of the scripture; then, no, that person must
necesssarily reject the Christmas tradition, and all
things associated with it, as it is purely Roman
in tradition and origin, completely pagan, with no basis
in the scripture whatsoever.
Let us hear what the LORD says in his word about the
pagan traditions of the heathen, and how he would have
his people to regard those things...
"Thus saith the Lord, Learn
not the way of the heathen...
for the CUSTOMS of the people are
vain"
(Jer. 10:1-3).
"And what agreement hath the
temple of God with idols?
For ye are the temple of the
living God; as God hath said,
I will dwell in them, and walk in
them;
and I will be their God,
and they shall be my people.
Wherefore come out from among
them,
and be ye separate, saith
the Lord,
and touch not the unclean
thing;
and I will receive you,
And will be a Father unto you,
and ye shall be my sons and
daughters,
saith the Lord
Almighty."
(2 Corinthians 6:16-18)
Now, let us examine briefly the teaching of Christmas. Since we
cannot teach it from the Bible (because it is not
there), we must get our information from secular
history. [Information in
brackets is added for clarification.]
RELIGIOUS
HOLIDAYS AND CALENDARS - AN ENCYCLOPAEDIC HANDBOOK,
1993Christmas Day
December
25
Christmas
is the day on which Christians [Catholics,
actually] celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.
The
Roman Catholic Church designates it as a day of holy
obligation on which
members
of the Church must attend services.
Originally,
the birth of Jesus was commemorated in the East on
the Feast of
Epiphany
(January 6) but by 354, the Christmas Feast had taken
hold in the
West
and was observed on December 25. Since the fifth
century, most Eastern
Orthodox
Churches have celebrated the Nativity on December 25;
however,
some
Eastern congregations, called "Old
Calendarists," still use the Julian
calendar
and honor the birth of Christ thirteen days later, on
January 7. The
Armenian
Church continues to celebrate "Old
Christmas" on January 6.
As
with many traditions surrounding Christmas, the
selection of December 25
as a
commemoration of Jesus' birthday may be an example of
the blending of
Christian ideas and the pagan traditions they
replaced. December 25 was
the
date of the Mithric observance of the "Birthday
of the Invincible Sun." This
also
coincided with Saturnalia and the Winter solstice
during the period when
Mithraism
was practiced in Rome. Since the day was already
being kept as a holiday,
Christians may have adjusted the symbolism of the
day, declaring it the
birthday of their "Invincible Son."
According to events in the Gospel of Matthew,
the
date of Jesus' birth may actually have taken place
much earlier in the year.
The
word "Christmas" means "the mass of
Christ," and originated in the 11th century
as a
name for this feast. It was one of the most popular
and universally celebrated
holidays
in Europe during the Middle Ages. During the
Reformation, however, the
celebration
of Christmas began to decline in importance.
Reformers engaged in
complex
doctrinal arguments in an attempt to prove the
celebration of Christmas
was
unscriptural.
In
some countries, the Protestant reforms brought about
a ban of Christmas
celebrations.
By the time of the Restoration in 1660, however, the
celebration
of
Christmas as a much more secular holiday was revived
in these countries.
In New
England, Christmas remained outlawed until the
mid-nineteenth century,
and in
Boston classes were held in the public schools on
Christmas Day until 1870,
with
pupils who missed school that day being punished or
dismissed. The mass
immigration
of Irish Catholics to New England brought about the
reinstitution of
Christmas
celebrations.
"Christmas",
THE WORLD BOOK ENCYCLOPEDIA, Vol. 3,
"C-Ch", 1997
"The
first mention of December 25 as the birth date of
Jesus occurred in A.D. 336
in an
early Roman calendar. The celebration of this day as
Jesus' birth date was
probably
influenced by pagan [unchristian] festivals held at
that time. The ancient
Romans
held year-end celebrations to honor Saturn, their
harvest god; and Mithras,
the
[sic] god of light... As part of all these
celebrations, the people prepared special
foods,
decorated their homes with greenery, and joined in
singing and gift giving.
These
customs gradually became part of the Christmas
celebration."
"In
the late 300's, [Roman] Christianity became the
official religion of the Roman Empire...
The
popularity of Christmas grew until the Reformation, a
religious movement of
the
1500's. This movement gave birth to Protestantism.
During the Reformation,
many
Christians began to consider Christmas a pagan
celebration because it
included
nonreligious [unbiblical] customs.
During the 1600's, because of these feelings,
Christmas
was outlawed in England and in parts of the English
colonies in America."
"Christmas",
COLLIER'S ENCYCLOPEDIA, Vol. 6, 1992
"...
The suppression of the Mass during the Reformation
led to a sharp change in
the
observance of Christmas in some countries. In
England, the Puritans condemned
the
celebration and, from 1642 to 1652, issued a series
of ordinances forbidding all
church
services and festivities. This feeling was carried
over to America by the Pilgrims
and it
was not until the nineteenth-century wave of Irish
and German immigration that
enthusiasm
for the feast began to spread throughout the country.
Objections were
swept
aside and the old traditions revived among
Protestants as well as Catholics.
"THE YULE
LOG"
The
custom of burning the Juul (pronounced yool) came
from the Norse and
Anglo-Saxons.
They burned a huge oak log once a year to honor Thor,
the god of
thunder.
After the Norse became Christians [Catholics,
actually], they made
the yule log an important
part
of their Christmas ceremonies. The Scandinavians
adopted the word yule to
mean
Christmas. In Lithuania, the word for Christmas
actually means log evening.
The
yule log became equally important in England. The
English considered it
good
luck to keep an unburned part of the log to light
next year's yule log.
We can see by these authoritative accounts of
secular history several things...
First of all, Christmas is the MASS
of CHRIST. This should be enough right here
to dissuade any Bible believing Christian from having anything to do with the
Christmas tradition! The MASS
is an idolatrous perversion of the Biblical ordinance of
the Lord’s Supper.
The Christmas festival [I do not call it a
"holiday", because it is not holy] is
centered around the act of millions of deceived, freezing
Catholic people gathered outside in Rome (...that great city,
which reigneth over the kings of the earth--Revelation
17:18) to hear the Pope give the midnight
mass. There are a
few things which need to be observed here from the
scripture:
1) "Pope"
means "Father",
and the Catholic people are taught to refer to their
Pope as "Holy Father".
The term "Holy Father"
is used only once in the
Bible, in John 17:11, when the Lord
Jesus Christ was referring to GOD
ALMIGHTY!
Jesus also said himself in Matthew 23:9, "And
call no man your father upon the earth: for
one is your Father, which is in heaven."
2)This
"high mass" is always held in
the middle of the night, which is
further evidence of the dark nature of its
purpose...as it is written, "Ye
are all children of light, and children of the day:
we are not of the night, nor of darkness." (1
Thessalonians 5:5)
3)The mass
in itself, no matter what time of the day or night,
is an abomination to
the true God, because it is a mockery of his
sacrifice on Calvary of his Son, Jesus Christ, who
died once for allto take away the sins of the world!
So, the very center of the Christmas festival is an abominable,
blasphemous pagan ritual, carried out in
the darkness of the night, executed by a
man who usurps the title of God Almightyto himself. Does that sound like anything
a Christian should be a
partaker of?
...No wonder the "Christmas spirit" (which is
Satan!) can only
manifest drunkenness, frivolity, greed, lustfulness, and
all the other ungodly things that go along with the
traditions of the Christ Mass...because it
has not now, nor ever did have, anything whatever to do
with Jesus Christ, or his church!
But, just like every other teaching of the Roman
Catholic Church, it is wholly pagan, a festival
which was once practiced by the pagan Romans to worship
gods that are no gods, which was brought into the false bride, the Roman
Catholic Church, and was blasphemously given
the name of Christ.
And no marvel: for they did the same thing with their pagan
statue gods like Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn,
Venus, etc...when they moved them into a new cathedral
and called them Peter, Paul, Jude, and Mary instead!
****SUMMARY****
Christ-Mass
has nothing
to do with the Lord Jesus Christ. It was invented
centuries after his resurrection, and after his church
began. He never mentioned anything about it, nor did his
holy apostles, whom he sent into the world to preach the
gospel.
The Mass is a Catholic
abomination wherein the Lord's supper is perverted
into an "unbloody sacrifice", by which
Catholics believe they are "receiving
Christ" and getting their sins forgiven by
the so-called "sacrifice of the Mass". Their false
Jesus is being sacrificed every week on
the altar of the Roman whore.
And THAT is the Mass that YOU
are partaking in when you involve yourself in the pagan
rituals and traditions of the Christ-Mass, which was NEVER
given by God to his people, and in fact the rituals
thereof are mentioned in the Bible as an ABOMINATION, and God has
commanded his people NOT to be a
partaker of the customs of the heathen!
(Leviticus 18:3, 20:23,
Jeremiah 10:1-5,
Revelation 18:4,5)
The festival you are actually celebrating
when you partake of the tradition of Christmas is called
"Saturnalia". It is a PAGAN festival to
honor a Roman god called Saturn (which is
no god at all). Like many other pagan rituals, it
was adopted by the Roman whore, and the
names of the pagan deities and customs were changed to
make it seem as though it were Christian.
But it is NOT.
It
has nothing whatever to do with Christianity, or with
Jesus Christ! It is the
celebration of a FALSE deity (Saturn)
invented by a FALSE church (Catholic),
and those who partake of the abomination of the Mass are...
...eating and drinking damnation
to themselves, and to their children, to the third and
fourth generation!
1 Corinthians 11:23-32,
Deuteronomy 5:7-9
The very heart of this festival is the abominable ritual of the midnight
Mass in Rome, where multitudes of the deceived
gather to partake of the pagan rite of the Roman
whore, eating and drinking damnation
to themselves and their generations, and cursing their
own souls by their disobedience to the God of the Bible!
THAT is what you are celebrating, if you
observe the Christmas festival!
NOT THE BIRTH OF JESUS
CHRIST...
BUT THE DEATH OF YOUR
SOUL,
AND OF YOUR SEED!
Christians, come out of the dark
ages, and from the filth of Babylon, that Roman
Whore who deceives the whole world, and be washed
with water by the word of God!
"Ye cannot drink the cup of
the Lord,
and the cup of devils:
ye cannot be partakers of the
Lord's table,
and of the table of
devils."
1 Corinthians 10:21
Many would say to me, "But brother, God knows my
heart, and he knows that when I celebrate Christmas, I do
it to honour him and the birth of his Son Jesus
Christ...".
Well, foolish disciple...let me put it to you in a
fool's terms then...
Suppose someone came to you, "Christian",
and said, "Hey, you know what? Jesus Christ
is the Morning Star, right? Well, here's what we're
gonna do... We're gonna paint a big star on the
ground to represent Christ. Then, since God sits on
the circle of the earth, we're gonna paint a big
circle around the star. Yeah... Then, since Jesus is
the Light of the world, we're gonna light candles and
put them all around the circle. That will represent
Jesus being a light to all the world. Won't that be
great? Then we're gonna sit in the middle of the star
and pray. God will love that, won't he? It's all
about him, right? He will be so pleased!"
Foolish one, if you did that, who would you be
worshipping? Satan! And so you are
when you run after the pagan traditions of the
Mass of Christ, which God NEVER commanded,
but were given by the advice of devils!
Yes, God does know your heart, foolish child! That is why
he has sent forth hisword, to divide between the
foolish and the wise; between those who love him and
those who just pretend to.
"He that hath my
commandments,
and keepeth them,
he it is that loveth me."
(John 14:21)
"He that saith, I know him,
and keepeth not his commandments,
is a liar,
and the truth is not in
him."
(1 John 2:4)
Friend, the real proof of
whether or not you know God is in whether or not you obey
his word, not in how religious you seem
to the world. Remember that friendship with the
world is enmity with God.(James
4:4)
And when you really serve Jesus, the
world will hate you. (John 15:18-21)
Stand
up for Jesus, like the
puritans did when they first arrived here to build this
great nation of America, when they OUTLAWED the Christ
Mass, because it is a part of the false
religious system which is the enemy of
Jesus Christ and of his church, and they knew
it, and hated it, even as God commanded his people to cleave
to that which is good, and abhor that which is evil!
Come
out of that Whore, Mystery, Babylon
the Great, the Mother of the denominations and religious
organizations of men, and worship the Father in
Spirit and in truth, and live! Touch not the unclean
thing, and God will receive you.
Or, continue to commit adultery with her, and he will
cast you and her together into great tribulation!
(Revelation 2:22)
Christians do not observe Christmas!
You are either Christian or Catholic.
You cannot be both.
You must decide.
Will you obey God's word and inherit his
eternal kingdom?
Or will you follow the blind masses into the ditch
and perish in hell forever?
Will you worship God according to his way?
Or will you decide to do it your way like your
forefather Cain?
Which seed are you of, friend?
The decision you make right
now, and for the rest of your life, will make that
known...
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