X-mas makes a mockery of Christ

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The following excerpt is from:


4. Ho-ho-ho.​


Merry Christ-mas! It’s the most wonderful time of the year (sing along if you know the words), when we celebrate Santa and reindeer and Christ-mas trees and Christ-mas lights and Christ-mas decorations and presents and ski trips and drinking and stuffing our faces at Christ-mas parties. Deck the halls. Jingle bells.

What in the world does any of this have to do with the birth of Jesus?

Ask any Christian and they’ll probably tell you that despite the central role Santa plays in all of this ‘holiday cheer’, they know the real reason for the season. Don’t we all?


MATERIALISM.

Christ-mass/X-mass is the most materialistic event on the calendar. Advertising and peer pressure has people spending money they don’t have on things they don’t need, to impress people they don’t know. THAT is what X-mass is all about and the real reason for the silly season. The supposed birthday of Jesus was simply added to indoctrinate and incorporate Christians into these overtly pagan/heathen Yuletide/Saturnalia traditions and promote materialism. X-mass/Yuletide/Saturnalia and the birth of Jesus are, by their very nature, mutually exclusive.

Matthew 6:24 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and materialism.

X-mass teaches people to tell lies, and worse yet, it manipulates us to perpetuate these lies “for the good of the children”. And if any should refuse to teach, train and spoil their children into being selfish and materialistic liars like themselves, they face the wrath and judgment of the evil majority (Exod. 23:2) who consider themselves to be St. Nick’s best friend and personal defenders.

From a very early age, children are fed the LIE that there is a jolly old man in a red suit named Santa [Ni]Claus (old St. Nick/Nicolas) who, in a single night, flies around the world in a sled pulled by flying reindeer (one with a red nose that lights the way), landing on people’s rooftops undetected before forcing his obese, jelly-like exterior through the chimney and leaving all of these wonderful gifts under the X-mass tree strung with gold and silver tinsel. As ridiculous as this story sounds, even to children, they are told if they do not believe in Santa he won’t come and leave them any presents. How can children believe anything their parents tell them after finding out Santa is a lie?

We are training our children to believe in lies and that it’s fun to repeat them.

The name “Santa” is a very obvious anagram for Satan, who is the father/inventor of LIES [John 8:35 (John 8:44 KJV)] and he is laughing at us all (ho-ho-ho) for falling for his X-mass con job. No wonder Christ HATES X-mass.

Revelation 2:6, 15
2:6
But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitanes (followers of Santa [Ni]-Claus - Yuletide, Easter [Ishtar - a goddess of fertility - eggs a symbol of fertility] etc.),which I also hate.
2:15 So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the followers of St. [Ni]-Claus (Yuletide), which thing I hate.

So how can so-called Christians do this to Christ? Celebrating a lie, and teaching your children to do the same is patently evil, which is why Christ (the Truth) condemns the pagan tradition of the X-mass/Yuletide/Saturnalia, which honors Satan/Santa, NOT the supposed birth of Jesus. Does anyone really believe that the Lamb of God was born in the dead of Winter? Lambs are born in the Spring, the season of REBIRTH.

In the year 7 B.C. there was a conjunction of Jupiter (the king of the planets) and Saturn (thought to be the protector of Israel) in the Constellation of Pisces (the Sign of the Messiah), as computed in 1603 by the Astronomer Royal in Prague – Johannes Kepler, that was first visible at daybreak on the 12th of April 7 B.C. (Passover in 7 B.C. was on Monday April 13th which commenced at sundown on the 12th). The earth-shattering significance of this conjunction – Messiah; King; Protector of Israel; Passover – would have been unmistakable to the Levitical Druid astronomers (wise men) in the British Isles, where the monarch was also the Archdruid.

Matthew 2:1-6
2:1
Now when Jesus had been born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men (druids) to the East to Jerusalem,

2:2 Saying, Where is he that has been BORN King of the Jews? for we saw his “Star” in the East, and are come to worship him.
2:3 When Herod the king had heard [these things], he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
2:4 And when he had gathered all the chief priests and lawyers of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born.

2:5 And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet,
2:6 And thou Bethlehem, [in] the land of Judah, art not the least among the princes of Judah: for out of thee shall come a Governor (of this prison planet), that shall rule My people Israel.

Jesus (Saviour) was born in the Spring, in Bethlehem of Judaea, at the time of the Passover (when the lamb’s blood saved us by causing the angel of death to passover) NOT on the pagan Yuletide/Christmas, during the season of death. Celebrating the heathen Yuletide/Saturnalia began shortly after the flood (Gen. 10:8-9), and had been going on for thousands of years before the birth of Jesus.

Jeremiah 10:1-4
10:1
Hear ye the Word which the “I AM” speaketh unto you, O House of Israel:
10:2 Thus saith the “I AM”, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
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.
10:4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.


Spreading lies and continuing to do that thing which Christ hates is a sure-fire way to burn (Rev. 21:8).
 

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I don't care much for the holiday itself, except for my grand-nieces joy. Wasn't Jesus brought gifts, from 3 wise men? Also Paul states "all things are lawful, not all things are beneficial." I don't really listen to many things that I read online. Yahavah, allows people freedom, as long as they are not worshipping things that replace Him from the center of their heart.
 

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yuletide .
evergreen trees and wreaths were presented to the sun god to help strengthen him during soliastice
FOLKS got no idea what crept into christanity via christmas pagan things .
The ancient yuletide . i would invite anyone and everone to look up YULE .
 

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Agreed with all you say but, I learned something several years ago...God made sure to thwart Satan's plans...it is about the X in Xmas.
Here is an article I think explains it most:

What Does “Xmas” Mean?

I will always say CHRISTmas, as I don't really want to shorten His Name. Let me know what you think?
 
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I don't care much for the holiday itself, except for my grand-nieces joy. Wasn't Jesus brought gifts, from 3 wise men?
Yes, Jesus was brought gifts from the 3 wise men, who came to honor their King. But it was NOT on "Christmas", and the three wise men did not arrive until Jesus was almost 2 years old.

Matthew 2:7-16
2:7 Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise men, enquired of them diligently [exactly] what time the "Star" had appeared.
2:8 And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently for the young child; and when ye have found [him], bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also.
2:9 When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the "Star", which they had seen in the East, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.
2:10 When they saw the "Star", they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.
2:11 And when they were come into the HOUSE, they saw the young CHILD with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.
2:12 And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.
2:13 And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the "I AM" appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child (not baby) to destroy him.
2:14 When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt:
2:15 And was there until the death of Herod*: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called My son.
2:16 Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from TWO YEARS old and under, according to the time which he had diligently [and accurately] enquired of the wise men.

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Herod died in 4 B.C., which means the birth of Jesus had to be a minimum of two years before that (and was actually in 7 B.C.).
Also Paul states "all things are lawful, not all things are beneficial." I don't really listen to many things that I read online. Yahavah, allows people freedom, as long as they are not worshipping things that replace Him from the center of their heart.

It should be self-evident that you're taking what Paul said out of context (to try to justify unlawful/sinful/criminal behavior), just as it should be obvious that celebrating pagan holidays that Christ abhors is choosing to worship the traditions of men, which make the Commandments of God of no effect (Matt. 15:3-9).
 
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Hello @A Freeman,

If you say so, people can celebrate Halloween, or Christmas, or 4th of July, if you so choose. I believe people try to make rules for people to follow when there are no rules to be followed when it comes to freedom in Christ, which involves faith and love.
 
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Hello @A Freeman,

If you say so, people can celebrate Halloween, or Christmas, or 4th of July, if you so choose. I believe people try to make rules for people to follow when there are no rules to be followed when it comes to freedom in Christ, which involves faith and love.
Everyone here has been granted free-will, to choose between good/truth and evil/lies (Deut. 30:15-20). And everyone can do whatever they feel is right in their own eyes, at least for a little while longer (Deut. 12:8; Mal. 4).

Unfortunately, most prefer lies over the truth.

Isaiah 30:8-15
30:8 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a Book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
30:9 That this [is] a rebellious people, lying children, children [that] will not hear The Law of the "I AM":
30:10 Which say to the Seers, See not; and to the Prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits (lies):
30:11 Get you out of The Way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
30:12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this Word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
30:13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
30:14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; He shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a piece to take fire from the hearth, or to take water [withal] out of the pit.
30:15 For thus saith the Lord "I AM", the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.

Faith is trust in God, Who is Love. Those who follow the traditions of men, are choosing to place their trust in those traditions, rather than in God. And, as Christ-Jesus said, no one can serve two masters.

The truth posted about X-mas being a pagan holiday, that God and His Christ abhor, isn't telling anyone to do anything. That decision is up to each and every individual soul. Yes, there are consequences for our actions that everyone should consider, as if their lives depended upon it which, of course, they do. But it's understood that most will never consider those consequences until it's too late to do anything about it.
 
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Hello @A Freeman,

While everyone looks on the outside, where does God look at? You can quote that Bible all day but in the end it’s where the ____ is isn’t it?
 
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Christmas is definitely what you make of it. A celebration or hedonistic mess.
 

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Should XMas be allowed on this forum? If this thread would have started "Merry XMas" I really would have taken issue!
 

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Hello @rockytopva,

That sounds like a personal struggle.

Hello @JohnDB,

I heard not to long ago from a person I had just met and had to ride with the hospital for work in order to get clients their bloodwork done. He said something to the effect "There are some people in life that if they don't have something to complain about or gripe about there whole day is just ruined, and they feel empty inside." I was like Wow! I never heard that in such a way before.
 
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Hello @rockytopva,

That sounds like a personal struggle.

Hello @JohnDB,

I heard not to long ago from a person I had just met and had to ride with the hospital for work in order to get clients their bloodwork done. He said something to the effect "There are some people in life that if they don't have something to complain about or gripe about there whole day is just ruined, and they feel empty inside." I was like Wow! I never heard that in such a way before.
so long as folks feel the need to bring compromise into the church
there gonna be a voice to oppose it . Do keep that in mind . lets try bringing Scriptures rather than twisted ideas .
 
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Hello @amigo de christo,

I don't worship the Bible ( I do love that we have it, and can find where we are spiritually within it and learning about the things of God, Israel, and even the Son of God). Everything is predicated on faith and love. I don't believe that I need a church to go to or anything like that anymore, but if you feel that you need one by all means you have the freedom to go. This place is not a church. It's a website forum on the internet, with the title "Christian" in it.
 

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Hello @amigo de christo,

I don't worship the Bible ( I do love that we have it, and can find where we are spiritual within it and learning about the things of God, Israel, and even the Son of God). Everything is predicated on faith and love. I don't believe that I need a church to go to or anything like that anymore, but if you feel that you need one by all means you have the freedom to go. This place is not a church. It's a website forum on the internet, with the title "Christian" in it.
no mathew , i am sorry and must stop you at even your first sentence . YOU DO NOT LOVE what is written within .
IF YOU DID you would have never brought that post of unbelief . You dont even know much at all of what is written
within that bible . at best and at most you know only WHAT MEN TAUGHT and your own mind accepts .
I been watching you . You sound like ophra wimphrey . YOU DO NOT LOVE what is written within that bible
YOU LOVE what men twisted out of it TO YOU . a fact . A fact friend . now bible up for YOU .
 
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Hello @amigo de christo,

I will not take your word for it. Love you and hope you the best.
what you need to DO for YOU
is GET IN BIBLE FOR YOU . i never said to take my word about anything
BUT I DO SAY and willl continue to say , YA NEEDS TOGET IN BIBLE FOR YOU .
you are being misled mathew and i mean BIG TIME TOO .
but hey dont take my word for it , GET IN THE BIBLE FOR YOU and YOU SEE .
you can spend days and hours reading what men say about the bible or about concepts
But sure dont seem to spend that time in the bible reading it for you .
SO mathew you can tell me all day , a hundred times a day YA LOVE what is written in it .
YOU DO NOT . you love things twisted .
 
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The following excerpt is from:


4. Ho-ho-ho.​


Merry Christ-mas! It’s the most wonderful time of the year (sing along if you know the words), when we celebrate Santa and reindeer and Christ-mas trees and Christ-mas lights and Christ-mas decorations and presents and ski trips and drinking and stuffing our faces at Christ-mas parties. Deck the halls. Jingle bells.

What in the world does any of this have to do with the birth of Jesus?

Ask any Christian and they’ll probably tell you that despite the central role Santa plays in all of this ‘holiday cheer’, they know the real reason for the season. Don’t we all?


MATERIALISM.

Christ-mass/X-mass is the most materialistic event on the calendar. Advertising and peer pressure has people spending money they don’t have on things they don’t need, to impress people they don’t know. THAT is what X-mass is all about and the real reason for the silly season. The supposed birthday of Jesus was simply added to indoctrinate and incorporate Christians into these overtly pagan/heathen Yuletide/Saturnalia traditions and promote materialism. X-mass/Yuletide/Saturnalia and the birth of Jesus are, by their very nature, mutually exclusive.

Matthew 6:24 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and materialism.

X-mass teaches people to tell lies, and worse yet, it manipulates us to perpetuate these lies “for the good of the children”. And if any should refuse to teach, train and spoil their children into being selfish and materialistic liars like themselves, they face the wrath and judgment of the evil majority (Exod. 23:2) who consider themselves to be St. Nick’s best friend and personal defenders.

From a very early age, children are fed the LIE that there is a jolly old man in a red suit named Santa [Ni]Claus (old St. Nick/Nicolas) who, in a single night, flies around the world in a sled pulled by flying reindeer (one with a red nose that lights the way), landing on people’s rooftops undetected before forcing his obese, jelly-like exterior through the chimney and leaving all of these wonderful gifts under the X-mass tree strung with gold and silver tinsel. As ridiculous as this story sounds, even to children, they are told if they do not believe in Santa he won’t come and leave them any presents. How can children believe anything their parents tell them after finding out Santa is a lie?

We are training our children to believe in lies and that it’s fun to repeat them.

The name “Santa” is a very obvious anagram for Satan, who is the father/inventor of LIES [John 8:35 (John 8:44 KJV)] and he is laughing at us all (ho-ho-ho) for falling for his X-mass con job. No wonder Christ HATES X-mass.

Revelation 2:6, 15
2:6
But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitanes (followers of Santa [Ni]-Claus - Yuletide, Easter [Ishtar - a goddess of fertility - eggs a symbol of fertility] etc.),which I also hate.
2:15 So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the followers of St. [Ni]-Claus (Yuletide), which thing I hate.

So how can so-called Christians do this to Christ? Celebrating a lie, and teaching your children to do the same is patently evil, which is why Christ (the Truth) condemns the pagan tradition of the X-mass/Yuletide/Saturnalia, which honors Satan/Santa, NOT the supposed birth of Jesus. Does anyone really believe that the Lamb of God was born in the dead of Winter? Lambs are born in the Spring, the season of REBIRTH.

In the year 7 B.C. there was a conjunction of Jupiter (the king of the planets) and Saturn (thought to be the protector of Israel) in the Constellation of Pisces (the Sign of the Messiah), as computed in 1603 by the Astronomer Royal in Prague – Johannes Kepler, that was first visible at daybreak on the 12th of April 7 B.C. (Passover in 7 B.C. was on Monday April 13th which commenced at sundown on the 12th). The earth-shattering significance of this conjunction – Messiah; King; Protector of Israel; Passover – would have been unmistakable to the Levitical Druid astronomers (wise men) in the British Isles, where the monarch was also the Archdruid.

Matthew 2:1-6
2:1
Now when Jesus had been born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men (druids) to the East to Jerusalem,

2:2 Saying, Where is he that has been BORN King of the Jews? for we saw his “Star” in the East, and are come to worship him.
2:3 When Herod the king had heard [these things], he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
2:4 And when he had gathered all the chief priests and lawyers of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born.

2:5 And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet,
2:6 And thou Bethlehem, [in] the land of Judah, art not the least among the princes of Judah: for out of thee shall come a Governor (of this prison planet), that shall rule My people Israel.

Jesus (Saviour) was born in the Spring, in Bethlehem of Judaea, at the time of the Passover (when the lamb’s blood saved us by causing the angel of death to passover) NOT on the pagan Yuletide/Christmas, during the season of death. Celebrating the heathen Yuletide/Saturnalia began shortly after the flood (Gen. 10:8-9), and had been going on for thousands of years before the birth of Jesus.

Jeremiah 10:1-4
10:1
Hear ye the Word which the “I AM” speaketh unto you, O House of Israel:
10:2 Thus saith the “I AM”, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
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.
10:4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.


Spreading lies and continuing to do that thing which Christ hates is a sure-fire way to burn (Rev. 21:8).

These things are spread by the ignorant, spreading lies like a sickness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Christ has overcome [all] the world, and if one sings celebration in the shower every morning, or sets apart a day of celebration; or dedicates a meal, or an activity; or gives gifts; or decorates with macaroni, bows of holly, or a tree once revered by others for other reasons--as unto the Lord--it is good.

The victory of Christ is to be claimed--and so it is.
 

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Hello @rockytopva,

That sounds like a personal struggle.

Hello @JohnDB,

I heard not to long ago from a person I had just met and had to ride with the hospital for work in order to get clients their bloodwork done. He said something to the effect "There are some people in life that if they don't have something to complain about or gripe about there whole day is just ruined, and they feel empty inside." I was like Wow! I never heard that in such a way before.
Not the only one with struggles...

9 And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah?
10 And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away. - 1 Kings 19
 
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Hello @rockytopva,

You're right. Everyone has struggles. It would be a lie if we say "I do not struggle." Wouldn't it? What struggles they have, are personal.