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Overlooked Bible Verses by Christians at Holiday Time

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This Bible verse is interpreted as meaning meats sacrificed to idols by many commentators (Gill did this, for one) but that cannot be since we have liberty to eat these meats with thanksgiving (1 Timothy 4:3-5) and not to eat it if it offends a fellow Christian (1 Corinthians 8:13; Romans 14:15, 21). The word is to abstain-to utterly avoid it. In these verses there are no exceptions mentioned.

Acts 15:20 but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols…

and verse 29 that you abstain from things offered to idols…

How many Christians confess to knowing the pagan background of the things of X Mass and Easter? And then they go on to disobey God’s Word given at the Jerusalem Council… Even today, these polluted things are used in the idol worship of Wicca.

If you believe the verse means meats, or foods, then you are still in disobedience by the eating of it when it is offered up on the idolatrous christo-pagan days of X Mass and Easter:

Jeremiah 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.

Most commentators will say that the admonition to abstain from things polluted by idols means to not participate in the idol worship ritual but why not just say that? This is adding to the words of the Council’s admonition. We can turn to Acts 19:19 to see an example of what was meant by the Council:

Acts 19:19 Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.

They utterly destroyed their books to keep themselves from having anything to do with the things polluted by idolatry. Since there are no scriptures showing the decorated indoor X Mass tree, or colored eggs, used by Christians in worship to God, we can assume that He did not redeem these things polluted by idols for His worship or for celebrating His Son’s birth on a pagan god’s holy day. We must put these things away, even to the burning of them, if possible.

8 Symptoms of False Doctrine by J.C. Ryle

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Many things combine to make the present inroad of false doctrine peculiarly dangerous.

1. There is an undeniable zeal in some of the teachers of error: their “earnestness” makes many think they must be right.

2. There is a great appearance of learning and theological knowledge: many fancy that such clever and intellectual men must surely be safe guides.

3. There is a general tendency to free thought and free inquiry in these latter days: many like to prove their independence of judgment, by believing novelties.

4. There is a wide-spread desire to appear charitable and liberal-minded: many seem half ashamed of saying that anybody can be in the wrong.

5. There is a quantity of half-truth taught by the modern false teachers: they are incessantly using Scriptural terms and phrases in an unscriptural sense.

6. There is a morbid craving in the public mind for a more sensuous, ceremonial, sensational, showy worship: men are impatient of inward, invisible heart-work.

7. There is a silly readiness in every direction to believe everybody who talks cleverly, lovingly and earnestly, and a determination to forget that Satan often masquerades himself “as an angel of light” (2 Corinthians 11:14).

8. There is a wide-spread “gullibility” among professing Christians: every heretic who tells his story plausibly is sure to be believed, and everybody who doubts him is called a persecutor and a narrow-minded man.

All these things are peculiar symptoms of our times. I defy any observing person to deny them. They tend to make the assaults of false doctrine in our day peculiarly dangerous. They make it more than ever needful to cry aloud, “Do not be carried away!”

Warnings to the Churches, “Divers and Strange Doctrines”, [Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1967], 76, 77.

Why is Sound Doctrine so Important?

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Truth!

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25 Protestations Against Christmas

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By Daniel Kok.

It is difficult for people to understand why some Christians do not celebrate Christmas. I offer the following as an explanation and defense of that position so that you can understand why that is:

25 Protestations against Christmas

1. The scriptures do not inform us of the date or season of our Lord’s birth.
2. Thus all attempts to date the birth of Christ are conjecture and cannot be substantiated from scripture.
3. Although many Christians celebrate Jesus’ birth on December 25, many Eastern Christians commemorate it on January 7 instead. Yet neither date has scriptural backing. The difference between the two dates is such as the apostle Paul would say “cause(s) disputes rather than godly edification which is in faith” (1 Timothy 1:4).
4. Therefore to say, as some do, that “Christ was born this day” or “today is Jesus’ birthday” is a bearing of false witness.
5. There is no record of the subsequent celebration or commemoration of His birth in the New Testament.
6. The scriptures do not command us to observe or otherwise commend to us the celebration of Christ’s birth.
7. Most importantly, the scriptures do not give the church the authority to institute holy days, days of custom or observance for the purpose of commemorating various events in scripture. For Christ’s church is only required and allowed to do as He directs her (Matthew 28:18ff.).

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What Submission Doesn’t Mean

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Today’s Update:
What Submission Doesn’t Mean

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ” does not mean that you accommodate yourself to wrong teaching and doctrine, that you say nothing when falsehood is being propagated. No! For that is a denial of all the New Testament. Not only that, it is a denial of some of the most glorious epochs and eras in the Christian Church.

— D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899–1981) was a Welsh Protestant minister and medical doctor)

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We Walk at Liberty Because We Keep His Precepts

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Paganism in the Church must be removed-its a worldly, unholy system of worship to another god and is un-redeemable and it has no place even near the wall of separation…

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“And they fortified Jerusalem unto the broad wall.”-Nehemiah 3:8

Cities well fortified have broad walls, and so had Jerusalem in her glory. The New Jerusalem must, in like manner, be surrounded and preserved by a broad wall of nonconformity to the world, and separation from its customs and spirit. The tendency of these days break down the holy barrier, and make the distinction between the church and the world merely nominal. Professors are no longer strict and Puritanical, questionable literature is read on all hands, frivolous pastimes are currently indulged, and a general laxity threatens to deprive the Lord’s peculiar people of those sacred singularities which separate them from sinners. It will be an ill day for the church and the world when the proposed amalgamation shall be complete, and the sons of God and the daughters of men shall be as one: then shall another deluge of wrath be…

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The Biblical Case Against Christmas – Pagan Idolatry Baptized by Catholicism

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This teaching proves from the Bible that God does not accept worship that is based on a lie, that is of the world, and is mixed with heathen idolatry. We examine and refute common arguments used to justify Christmas like “Jesus knows what’s in my heart” and using Christmas to evangelize.

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