| The CROWN of CHRIST - Understanding the Times in the Light of Scripture |
| Pure Worship leaves no place for X-Mass or Ishtar day. |
The Scriptural position on worship was well stated in the Scots' Confession:
...evil works are not only those expressly done against God's command, but also, in
religious matters and the worship of God, those things which have no other warrant
than the invention and opinion of man.
The Westminster Confession of faith is also clear:
...the acceptable way of worshipping the true God is instituted by Himself, and so
limited by His own revealed will, that He may not be worshipped according to the
imaginations and devices of men, or the suggestions of Satan, under any visible
representation, or any other way not prescribed in the holy Scripture.
Simply put, this means that we are not to be CREATIVE, but BIBLICAL in our worship.
We should sing the Psalms, not human hymns - "acapella" (as in chapel) - without
instruments.
The Westminster Directory for Worship tells us:
THERE is no day commanded in scripture to be kept holy under the gospel but the
Lord's day, which is the Christian Sabbath. Festival days, vulgarly called Holy-days,
having no warrant in the word of God, are not to be continued.
This means that Protestants have no business copying silly pagan "holidays" from the
Papists!
Why I don't do "Christmas".
1.X-MAS IS MYTHOLOGICAL. There was a little boy who brought his musical
instrument to baby Jesus - which instrument? How many kings visited Him? What did
the angels sing? Which reindeer had a red nose? Most Americans can answer: a drum,
three kings, "peace on earth" and Rudolph. These answers are ALL WRONG. The
Drummer Boy and Rudolph have never existed. There were no kings, but an
unspecified number of Magi. The angels did not sing - ONE angel SAID, "...peace on
earth..." These lies are all in fun, right? Well, real Christians do not enjoy mixing
fables with the Truth! ...we did not follow cleverly devised tales when we made
known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were
eyewitnesses... 2 Peter 1:16
2. X-MAS IS HERETICAL. "He sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're
awake. He knows when you've been bad or good, so be good for goodness' sake."
Who is this all-knowing judge? Jehovah the Trinity? Nope, it's just an old fat man in a
red fur suit. What a disappointment! ...I am God, and there is no other; God, and
there is no one like Me, declaring the end from the beginning... Isaiah 46:9&10
3. X-MAS IS A POPISH FESTIVAL. The Apostles knew nothing of "Christ's Mass" - or of
any mass at all. Priests, candles, human carols and expensive decor are all man-made
errors with no Scriptural basis. Guillaume Durand, a 13th century expert on litergy,
admitted that the Church had strayed from the rules of Jesus: "Clearly, in the early
church, the sacrifice was carried out in wooden vessels and common clothing; for at
that time the cups were wooden and the priests golden: but now it is just the
opposite." (Rationale Divinorum Officiorum, book I) Why would Protestants, who
never keep All Souls' Day, Epiphany or Lent, demand Christ's Mass complete with icons
and candles? But in vain do they worship me, Teaching for doctrines the
commandments of men. Matthew 15:9
4. X-MAS IS IDOLATROUS. Christmas is a festival of idols. Nativity scenes depict the
"baby Jesus". Since the Bible does not describe His physical features, the artists just
invent them. Our God reveals Himself through His WORD, not through pictures. As
Theodore Beza wrote, "Jesus Christ, the more naked he be, is made the more
manifest to us; whereas, contrariwise, all false religions use external gesturings to
turn men away from divine things." (Confessio Christiane Fidei, 5:20) God has
commanded us to SEE Jesus in the bread and wine of communion, not in paintings or
statues. And since Christ is God as well as Man, any depiction divides His natures
apart. You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven
above or on the earth beneath... Exodus 20:4
5. X-MAS IS DECADENT. Let's admit it: people love Christmas because it is FUN, not
for religion's sake. John Denver sang: "Please, daddy don't get drunk this
Christmas...", and many can identify. An old couplet warns: "Christmas comes but
once a year - and with it comes too much beer". Even infidels see that Christmas is a
time of excess. According to George Gillespie, it is a time of "Bacchanalian
laciviousness".
6. X-MAS IS ILLEGAL. Christ's mass is certainly a festival day to be stopped according
to the Westminster Directory for Publick Worship. If even Old Testament Hebrew
days are forbidden, how much more this pagan winter solstice/Saturnalia fest?
...how is it that you turn back again to the weak and worthless elemental things, to
which you wish to be enslaved all over again? You observe days and months and
seasons and years. I fear for you, that perhaps I have labored over you in vain.
Galatians 4:9&10
"EASTER" IS A N T I-C H R I S T
Is "Easter" in the Bible?
The word "easter" occurs once in the King James Version, but it is a mistranslation
(Acts 12:4). The original Greek word is pascha, the ordinary word for the passover.
Originally, "easter" was a spring festival in honor of the Teutonic goddess Eastre - the
queen of light and spring. As early as the eighth century this name was transferred
by the Anglo-Saxons to the "Christian" holiday designed to celebrate Christ's
resurrection. (see pg. 145, Westminster Dictionary of the Bible)
By Whose Authority, then, did "Easter" enter the churches?
It was the prelates of the Latin and Greek Churches who fought bitterly over these
holidays. To this day, the papists keep "christmas" on a different day than the
"orthodox". The Easterns have holy thursday instead of good friday. If you celebrate
these days on the dates appointed by the Pope, then it is fair to ask if you are in
communion with Rome. All man-made days of this sort are schismatic.
What does God say about Man-Made days?
And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the
month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he
at Bethel ... so he offered upon the altar which he had made at Bethel the fifteenth
day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised in his own heart;
and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel ... And behold, there came a man of
God out of Judah by the word of the LORD ... and said ... O altar, altar, thus saith
the LORD ... Josiah ... shall ... offer the priests of the high places that burn incense
upon thee ... the altar shall be rent ... Jereboam ... put forth his hand from the
altar, saying, lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried
up, so that he could not pull it in again to him. 1 Kings 12:32-13:4
Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid for you, lest I have
bestowed upon you labor in vain. Galatians 4:10&11
Does the Creed of a Presbyterian allow for "Easter"?
Not at all. The Westminster Directory for Publick Worship says that "Festival days,
vulgarly called Holy-days, having no warrant in the word of God, are not to be
continued." If you celebrate Palm Sunday, Ash Wednesday, Maundy Thursday, Good
Friday or Easter Sunday, you are breaking the Westminster Standards to keep a pagan
fertility ritual. God gives us 52 Sabbaths every year to remember Christ's
resurrection. "Easter" has nothing to do with that.
...evil works are not only those expressly done against God's command, but also, in
religious matters and the worship of God, those things which have no other warrant
than the invention and opinion of man.
The Westminster Confession of faith is also clear:
...the acceptable way of worshipping the true God is instituted by Himself, and so
limited by His own revealed will, that He may not be worshipped according to the
imaginations and devices of men, or the suggestions of Satan, under any visible
representation, or any other way not prescribed in the holy Scripture.
Simply put, this means that we are not to be CREATIVE, but BIBLICAL in our worship.
We should sing the Psalms, not human hymns - "acapella" (as in chapel) - without
instruments.
The Westminster Directory for Worship tells us:
THERE is no day commanded in scripture to be kept holy under the gospel but the
Lord's day, which is the Christian Sabbath. Festival days, vulgarly called Holy-days,
having no warrant in the word of God, are not to be continued.
This means that Protestants have no business copying silly pagan "holidays" from the
Papists!
Why I don't do "Christmas".
1.X-MAS IS MYTHOLOGICAL. There was a little boy who brought his musical
instrument to baby Jesus - which instrument? How many kings visited Him? What did
the angels sing? Which reindeer had a red nose? Most Americans can answer: a drum,
three kings, "peace on earth" and Rudolph. These answers are ALL WRONG. The
Drummer Boy and Rudolph have never existed. There were no kings, but an
unspecified number of Magi. The angels did not sing - ONE angel SAID, "...peace on
earth..." These lies are all in fun, right? Well, real Christians do not enjoy mixing
fables with the Truth! ...we did not follow cleverly devised tales when we made
known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were
eyewitnesses... 2 Peter 1:16
2. X-MAS IS HERETICAL. "He sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're
awake. He knows when you've been bad or good, so be good for goodness' sake."
Who is this all-knowing judge? Jehovah the Trinity? Nope, it's just an old fat man in a
red fur suit. What a disappointment! ...I am God, and there is no other; God, and
there is no one like Me, declaring the end from the beginning... Isaiah 46:9&10
3. X-MAS IS A POPISH FESTIVAL. The Apostles knew nothing of "Christ's Mass" - or of
any mass at all. Priests, candles, human carols and expensive decor are all man-made
errors with no Scriptural basis. Guillaume Durand, a 13th century expert on litergy,
admitted that the Church had strayed from the rules of Jesus: "Clearly, in the early
church, the sacrifice was carried out in wooden vessels and common clothing; for at
that time the cups were wooden and the priests golden: but now it is just the
opposite." (Rationale Divinorum Officiorum, book I) Why would Protestants, who
never keep All Souls' Day, Epiphany or Lent, demand Christ's Mass complete with icons
and candles? But in vain do they worship me, Teaching for doctrines the
commandments of men. Matthew 15:9
4. X-MAS IS IDOLATROUS. Christmas is a festival of idols. Nativity scenes depict the
"baby Jesus". Since the Bible does not describe His physical features, the artists just
invent them. Our God reveals Himself through His WORD, not through pictures. As
Theodore Beza wrote, "Jesus Christ, the more naked he be, is made the more
manifest to us; whereas, contrariwise, all false religions use external gesturings to
turn men away from divine things." (Confessio Christiane Fidei, 5:20) God has
commanded us to SEE Jesus in the bread and wine of communion, not in paintings or
statues. And since Christ is God as well as Man, any depiction divides His natures
apart. You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven
above or on the earth beneath... Exodus 20:4
5. X-MAS IS DECADENT. Let's admit it: people love Christmas because it is FUN, not
for religion's sake. John Denver sang: "Please, daddy don't get drunk this
Christmas...", and many can identify. An old couplet warns: "Christmas comes but
once a year - and with it comes too much beer". Even infidels see that Christmas is a
time of excess. According to George Gillespie, it is a time of "Bacchanalian
laciviousness".
6. X-MAS IS ILLEGAL. Christ's mass is certainly a festival day to be stopped according
to the Westminster Directory for Publick Worship. If even Old Testament Hebrew
days are forbidden, how much more this pagan winter solstice/Saturnalia fest?
...how is it that you turn back again to the weak and worthless elemental things, to
which you wish to be enslaved all over again? You observe days and months and
seasons and years. I fear for you, that perhaps I have labored over you in vain.
Galatians 4:9&10
"EASTER" IS A N T I-C H R I S T
Is "Easter" in the Bible?
The word "easter" occurs once in the King James Version, but it is a mistranslation
(Acts 12:4). The original Greek word is pascha, the ordinary word for the passover.
Originally, "easter" was a spring festival in honor of the Teutonic goddess Eastre - the
queen of light and spring. As early as the eighth century this name was transferred
by the Anglo-Saxons to the "Christian" holiday designed to celebrate Christ's
resurrection. (see pg. 145, Westminster Dictionary of the Bible)
By Whose Authority, then, did "Easter" enter the churches?
It was the prelates of the Latin and Greek Churches who fought bitterly over these
holidays. To this day, the papists keep "christmas" on a different day than the
"orthodox". The Easterns have holy thursday instead of good friday. If you celebrate
these days on the dates appointed by the Pope, then it is fair to ask if you are in
communion with Rome. All man-made days of this sort are schismatic.
What does God say about Man-Made days?
And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the
month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he
at Bethel ... so he offered upon the altar which he had made at Bethel the fifteenth
day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised in his own heart;
and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel ... And behold, there came a man of
God out of Judah by the word of the LORD ... and said ... O altar, altar, thus saith
the LORD ... Josiah ... shall ... offer the priests of the high places that burn incense
upon thee ... the altar shall be rent ... Jereboam ... put forth his hand from the
altar, saying, lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried
up, so that he could not pull it in again to him. 1 Kings 12:32-13:4
Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid for you, lest I have
bestowed upon you labor in vain. Galatians 4:10&11
Does the Creed of a Presbyterian allow for "Easter"?
Not at all. The Westminster Directory for Publick Worship says that "Festival days,
vulgarly called Holy-days, having no warrant in the word of God, are not to be
continued." If you celebrate Palm Sunday, Ash Wednesday, Maundy Thursday, Good
Friday or Easter Sunday, you are breaking the Westminster Standards to keep a pagan
fertility ritual. God gives us 52 Sabbaths every year to remember Christ's
resurrection. "Easter" has nothing to do with that.
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