Category: syncretism

Fearing the Keeping of Holy Days & the Spiritual Bondage of Christmas, Easter, Etc

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Galatians 4:9-11King James Version (KJV)

9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?

10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.

11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.

2 Peter 2:21King James Version (KJV)

21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

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From the comment line:

Asa (6/12/2014)

from Arizona
“ Great Sermon! ”
Good warnings about bringing pagan and Old Testament worship in the New Testament church. The sun has risen the shadows are ALL gone ! Still Waters Revival Books (6/18/2014)

from Edmonton, Alberta
“ The Spiritual Bondage Of Christmas, Easter, Etc. ”
Well said Asa! The following quote is interesting and sadly demonstrates how far our generation of Protestant and Reformed churches have fallen into the spiritual bondage of keeping Pagan and Roman Catholic holy days, which are not authorized by God in the Bible: In 1899, the General Assembly of the PCUS was overtured to give a “pronounced and explicit deliverance” against the recognition of “Christmas and Easter as religious days.” Even at this late date, the answer came back in a solid manner: “There is no warrant in Scripture for the observance of Christmas and Easter as holydays, rather the contrary (see Gal. 4:9-11; Col. 2:16-21), and such observance is contrary to the principles of the Reformed faith, conducive to will-worship, and not in harmony with the simplicity of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.” – Kevin Reed, Christmas: An Historical Survey Regarding Its Origins and Opposition to It (Free Online Book at http://ow.ly/yacpW).

 

Please Don’t Twist Matthew 7…

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A Call to Separation – A. W. Pink

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XMas by A.W. Pink

Sermon-A Holy God and Holy Days

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Deuteronomy 7:5King James Version (KJV)

5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.

Two ways to approach celebrating man-made “holy” days:

unbiblical way-you can celebrate anything so long as God does not forbid it in His Word (yet, He does forbid paganism mixed in with the holy worship of Him!)

biblical way-you can only celebrate that which is found in God’s Word and only in the way that is according to His Word

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That’s right!

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God is into annihilation,

not incorporation,

of paganism

Dan A’s post on FB says:

For those that seem to not to be able to shake hold of the evil days of h’ween-xmass-ishstar/easter—

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? 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 6:14-18

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

AFTER READING THOSE VERSES PLEASE TELL ME WHY YOU THINK IT IS OK TO DO AS THE PAGANS DO. HOW DO YOU GET AROUND THESE GOD BREATHED VERSES? I REALLY WANT TO KNOW–

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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