Christmas! Bah humbug! Who needs to celebrate Christmas as the reprobated pagan heathens and Catholics do. Afterall, Christmas should should not be about celebrating the Incarnation of the world’s Savior but should not be about ridiculing and condemning Catholics and other non-Calvinists and supporting Republican foreign policy, war, torture and capitalist materialist consummerism. Saint Spurgeon warns us of the evils of celebrating Christmas in a religious way:
We have no superstitious regard for times and seasons. Certainly we do not believe in the present ecclesiastical arrangement called Christmas: first, because we do not believe in the mass at all, but abhor it, whether it be said or sung in Latin or in English; and, secondly, because we find no Scriptural warrant whatever for observing any day as the birthday of the Savior; and, consequently, its observance is a superstition, because not of divine authority. (Charles Spurgeon, Sermon on Dec. 24, 1871).
When it can be proved that the observance of Christmas, Whitsuntide, and other Popish festivals was ever instituted by a divine statute, we also will attend to them, but not till then. It is as much our duty to reject the traditions of men, as to observe the ordinances of the Lord. We ask concerning every rite and rubric, “Is this a law of the God of Jacob?” and if it be not clearly so, it is of no authority with us, who walk in Christian liberty. (from Charles Spurgeon’s Treasury of David on Psalm 81:4.)
January 2, 2010 at 9:52 am |
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December 24, 2010 at 5:35 am |
[...] fables of the Whore of Babylon (the Roman Catholic Church) and the Anti-Christ (the Pope). Our resident Grinch and Puritanazi Scrooge has blessed us with another insightful message this year. Note: Sharon M. Whitley: [...]