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Christ-Ma$$
"And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but
rather reprove them." Ephesians 5:11
Introduction:
1. It is extremely confusing and embarrassingly inconsistent to see
those who position
themselves as defenders of the faith, to suddenly, at this time of year
to desert their
post, join hands with the enemies of the cross of Christ and become
defenders of
Chrst-Mass.
2. Many will valiantly cry out against the Roman Catholic System. They
will blast “The mother of harlots and abominations of the earth” all
year long, then as the year comes to a close you see them embracing
Rome’s biggest, most blasphemous, fleshly lying abomination of them all,
Christ-Mass.
3. In his effort to defend Christ-Mass, one of our present day penmen
wrote, “The
would-be defenders of the faith make better us of the ‘Encyclopedia
Britannica’ and
Hislop’s ‘Two Babylons’ than they do the Bible.” (Christmas, by Herb
Evans)
Well, my friend, what do you use to document your defense, promotion,
embracing and contending for Christ-Mass? Please send me the list of
Bible verses that sanction and endorse this abomination of the earth.
4. These Christ-Mass defenders remind me of those who supposedly fight
alcohol and the booze industry, and yet eat at places where intoxicating
beverages are sold, or buy their groceries at booze joints. I believe
the Bible designation of those would be "hypocrites."
5. The Christ-Mass crowd, in their debate defense of this annual orgy
cannot us their
favorite debate weapon, which is, "Oh, the Catholics do that." You know
what I mean? The Christ-Massers can’t use that, for Christ-Mass IS
Catholic. They can’t deny that. They can’t produce one Scripture in
favor of their own practice. They must pull another rabbit out of their
hat. The next strategic move is to classify those who do not observe
Christ-Mass with Russelites, Herbert W. Armstrong, and Calvinists. The
deceptive picture is painted that only a few little ignorant nobodies
who don’t know the difference between a cult and a church reject their
celebration.
We note that in 1919 Dr. Ironside, pastor of the Moody Memorial Church
(Chicago), taught his congregation that, "Such a festival came under the
condemnation of Galatians 4:9-11, and should have no place in a
Christian church." (Romanism vs. Apostolic Christianity, Helgerson)
"For a long time the Puritan influence prevailed in America. Not until
the 19th century
did the observance of Christmas begin to become popular in America due
to the
immigration from Europe by folk who practiced this tradition." (ibid)
So while the debaters vainly beat the air with their efforts to justify
themselves in their
allegiance to the unfruitful works of darkness, let us proceed to
consider the antichrist Christ-Mass from the following three aspects –
I. The Catholic Christ-Mass
1. The name is Catholic – "Christmas – Annual festival kept on December
25th in commemoration of the birthday of Jesus Christ. The old English
form Christe-Maesse, i.e., Mass of Christ, is first found in 1038. The
observance of Christmas as a Christian festival dates from the 4th
century. (Grolier Encyclopedia, vol. 3, p. 254) "Christmas (i.e. the
Mass of Christ) was not among the earliest festivals of the church."
(Encyclopedia Britannica)
2. It is Catholic blasphemy – The Catholic mass is blasphemy. The
Christ-Mass is double blasphemy! You may ask, "Well, why do you say
that?" Just think about it for a moment and you will see the same thing.
The Catholic mass requires the crucifixion of Christ again and again as
the priest lifts the wafer host and prays for its consecration. They
claim that the wafer becomes the literal flesh of Christ and the
intoxicating wine turns into His blood. Christ is offered a regular
sacrifice by their claims. This is blasphemy because the Bible says-
"For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are
sanctified." Hebrews 10:14
"So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that
look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto
salvation." Hebrews 9:28
To use the term Christ-Mass is to imply that Christ is being sacrificed
for Himself. That is to say that Christ was a sinner and has to be
offered for His own sins. That, my friend, is double blasphemy at least.
"Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:" 1 Peter 2:22
No wonder pastor Helgerson warns in his "Romanism vs. Apostolic
Christianity" –
"Christmas is not of the Lord. We ought to avoid even the use of the
term so far as
possible. Furthermore, it ought not to be observed by an informed Bible
church any
more than the Muslim feast of Ramadan."
3. Before the 4th century there was no such celebration among
Christians, but there
was among the heathen. "After Constantine became the Emperor of Rome, he
forced all the pagans of his empire to be baptized into the Christian
Church. Thus baptized pagans far outnumbered the true Christians. "Since
the church worshiped the Lord Jesus as the Son of God, when the 25th of
December rolled around and the pagans wanted to worship Tammuz, their
sun-god, Constantine knew that he would have to do something. So he had
the church combine the worship of Tammuz with the birthday of Christ,
and a special mass was declared to keep everyone happy. Thus into the
Christian church pagan worship was brought and called ‘Christ-mass.’"
(The Message of the Christian Jew)
The Babylonian mother-child religion was wrapped in a Christian name and
the heathen loved it. So did the Catholics. Thus we have Christ-Mass.
II. The Commercial Christ-Ma$$
1. The liquor stores are stocking up for the big Christ-mass rush. The
street decorations go up earlier each year. Many towns have candy
sticks, trees and wreaths up well in advance of Thanksgiving now.
In the article, "The Man God Has Made" there is a picture of a man in a
business suit
who is labeled commercialism, with an old tire pump and he is inflating
the god of
Christ-Mass, Santa. The commercial world cashes in on Christ-Mass.
2. Japan – "Though Christians number only approximately one-half of one
percent of
the population, more and more of the city people celebrate Christmas.
The stores foster it because gift-giving increases sales and because the
Japanese are naturally gift-givers. And since one of the tenets of the
Buddist (sic) religion is to be polite to other gods, there is no
religious barrier. "To many who celebrate with gift and greeting,
Christmas means no more than the celebrating of the birthday of a great
man. Japan, like the United States, is a prosperous country, and as a
country becomes prosperous, Christmas tends to become more commercial."
(Christmas Here & There)
3. "If all the stores closed and no one could buy anything and all
parties were outlawed, I suspect the spirit and celebration of Christmas
would be appreciably diminished… the only time we buy in a frenzy is
that period between Thanksgiving and December 24." (Ft. Worth Star
Telegram)
The commercial Christ-Mass is a big thing. The business world, like the
Catholic
church, couldn’t care less what you call a thing just so it has plenty
of $$ signs in it.
III. The Christian Christ-Mass
This is a misnomer of the worst sort, but sad to say the $$ signs do get
into the Christian realms. "For the love of money is the root of all
evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith,
and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." 1 Timothy 6:10
There is a lot of compromise among Christians when it comes to
Christ-Mass!
There is the compromise of conformity. The celebration of Christ-Mass by
a Christian is conformity to the world. Christ-Mass is not of God. It is
not based upon the word of God. It is a religion of satan, the god of
the world, and yet many Christians go right along with it. They don’t
want to be odd balls. They don’t want to go across the grain. They want
to go along with the world. If you are to get along with this world you
will just about have to bow to its Christ-Mass god.
1. There is the compromise of silence. Many know that Christ-Mass is
wrong; that it is of pagan origin; that it is a blasphemous lie from
start to finish, yet they keep silent on the subject. These are your
politician pulpiteers and pew warmers. They won’t
jeopardize their position or standing in the community or church. They
like to identify
with both crowds. These are fence straddlers.
2. Then there is the compromise for money. Some will write tracts,
articles and books in defense of he Christ-Mass tree because of their
supporters. Support might Be hindered if they said it was wrong.
Some radio ministries depend on the Christ-Mass money to keep them
going. Any
ministry that is dependent upon Christ-Mass dollars is on shaky ground.
When Bible
believing Christians depend on Christ-Mass dollars they are at a low ebb
of faith. A
ministry dependent on Christ-Mass gifts to keep going is like a preacher
boy depending on his wife to work and put him through school. Both
demand compromise for dollars.
Conclusion:
1. Emphasis on the birth date of Christ is a satanic strategy to deceive
concerning His eternal existence, His deity. satan would love to keep
Him in the manger. satan majors on sentiments and emotions related to
the babe in the manger and gifts to children in the propagation of his
Christ-Mass lie.
2. Emphasis on Christ’s birth is to deceive concerning His purpose for
coming to earth. Most people’s knowledge of and interest in Christ stops
at the manger.
3. Christ went all the way to Calvary, and died for the sins of the
whole world. He
arose from the dead after three days. Has satan detained you at the
manger? No one is saved at the manger. Go on to Calvary!
©Copyright Raymond Blanton
Copies of this essay are available in tract form by writing to:
Highway and Hedges Tracts
201 maple Court
Liberty, SC 29657
U.S.A.
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| Jason |
* Gary <schooley@vcn.com>:
> http://www.angelfire.com/ne/savedbygrace/X_Mass.html
>
> Christ-Ma$$
>
> "And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but
> rather reprove them." Ephesians 5:11
>
Wow Gary what exactly do you smoke? I spent a long time working in the
entertainment industry where recreational pharmacutical usage is an art
form but not even there did anyone spew off topic garbage like you can.
Jason
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| John&Diane Kolomijez |
"Gary" <schooley@vcn.com> wrote in message news:3FAAF084.5510B2A9@vcn.com...
> http://www.angelfire.com/ne/savedbygrace/X_Mass.html
>
> Christ-Ma$$
>
> "And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but
> rather reprove them." Ephesians 5:11
>
> Introduction:
>
> 1. It is extremely confusing and embarrassingly inconsistent to see
> those who position
> themselves as defenders of the faith, to suddenly, at this time of year
> to desert their
> post, join hands with the enemies of the cross of Christ and become
> defenders of
> Chrst-Mass.
>
> 2. Many will valiantly cry out against the Roman Catholic System. They
> will blast "The mother of harlots and abominations of the earth" all
> year long, then as the year comes to a close you see them embracing
> Rome's biggest, most blasphemous, fleshly lying abomination of them all,
> Christ-Mass.
>
> 3. In his effort to defend Christ-Mass, one of our present day penmen
> wrote, "The
> would-be defenders of the faith make better us of the 'Encyclopedia
> Britannica' and
> Hislop's 'Two Babylons' than they do the Bible." (Christmas, by Herb
> Evans)
> Well, my friend, what do you use to document your defense, promotion,
> embracing and contending for Christ-Mass? Please send me the list of
> Bible verses that sanction and endorse this abomination of the earth.
>
> 4. These Christ-Mass defenders remind me of those who supposedly fight
> alcohol and the booze industry, and yet eat at places where intoxicating
> beverages are sold, or buy their groceries at booze joints. I believe
> the Bible designation of those would be "hypocrites."
>
> 5. The Christ-Mass crowd, in their debate defense of this annual orgy
> cannot us their
> favorite debate weapon, which is, "Oh, the Catholics do that." You know
> what I mean? The Christ-Massers can't use that, for Christ-Mass IS
> Catholic. They can't deny that. They can't produce one Scripture in
> favor of their own practice. They must pull another rabbit out of their
> hat. The next strategic move is to classify those who do not observe
> Christ-Mass with Russelites, Herbert W. Armstrong, and Calvinists. The
> deceptive picture is painted that only a few little ignorant nobodies
> who don't know the difference between a cult and a church reject their
> celebration.
>
> We note that in 1919 Dr. Ironside, pastor of the Moody Memorial Church
> (Chicago), taught his congregation that, "Such a festival came under the
> condemnation of Galatians 4:9-11, and should have no place in a
> Christian church." (Romanism vs. Apostolic Christianity, Helgerson)
>
> "For a long time the Puritan influence prevailed in America. Not until
> the 19th century
> did the observance of Christmas begin to become popular in America due
> to the
> immigration from Europe by folk who practiced this tradition." (ibid)
>
> So while the debaters vainly beat the air with their efforts to justify
> themselves in their
> allegiance to the unfruitful works of darkness, let us proceed to
> consider the antichrist Christ-Mass from the following three aspects -
>
> I. The Catholic Christ-Mass
>
> 1. The name is Catholic - "Christmas - Annual festival kept on December
> 25th in commemoration of the birthday of Jesus Christ. The old English
> form Christe-Maesse, i.e., Mass of Christ, is first found in 1038. The
> observance of Christmas as a Christian festival dates from the 4th
> century. (Grolier Encyclopedia, vol. 3, p. 254) "Christmas (i.e. the
> Mass of Christ) was not among the earliest festivals of the church."
> (Encyclopedia Britannica)
>
> 2. It is Catholic blasphemy - The Catholic mass is blasphemy. The
> Christ-Mass is double blasphemy! You may ask, "Well, why do you say
> that?" Just think about it for a moment and you will see the same thing.
>
> The Catholic mass requires the crucifixion of Christ again and again as
> the priest lifts the wafer host and prays for its consecration. They
> claim that the wafer becomes the literal flesh of Christ and the
> intoxicating wine turns into His blood. Christ is offered a regular
> sacrifice by their claims. This is blasphemy because the Bible says-
> "For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are
> sanctified." Hebrews 10:14
>
> "So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that
> look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto
> salvation." Hebrews 9:28
>
> To use the term Christ-Mass is to imply that Christ is being sacrificed
> for Himself. That is to say that Christ was a sinner and has to be
> offered for His own sins. That, my friend, is double blasphemy at least.
> "Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:" 1 Peter 2:22
>
> No wonder pastor Helgerson warns in his "Romanism vs. Apostolic
> Christianity" -
> "Christmas is not of the Lord. We ought to avoid even the use of the
> term so far as
> possible. Furthermore, it ought not to be observed by an informed Bible
> church any
> more than the Muslim feast of Ramadan."
>
> 3. Before the 4th century there was no such celebration among
> Christians, but there
> was among the heathen. "After Constantine became the Emperor of Rome, he
> forced all the pagans of his empire to be baptized into the Christian
> Church. Thus baptized pagans far outnumbered the true Christians. "Since
> the church worshiped the Lord Jesus as the Son of God, when the 25th of
> December rolled around and the pagans wanted to worship Tammuz, their
> sun-god, Constantine knew that he would have to do something. So he had
> the church combine the worship of Tammuz with the birthday of Christ,
> and a special mass was declared to keep everyone happy. Thus into the
> Christian church pagan worship was brought and called 'Christ-mass.'"
> (The Message of the Christian Jew)
>
> The Babylonian mother-child religion was wrapped in a Christian name and
> the heathen loved it. So did the Catholics. Thus we have Christ-Mass.
>
> II. The Commercial Christ-Ma$$
>
> 1. The liquor stores are stocking up for the big Christ-mass rush. The
> street decorations go up earlier each year. Many towns have candy
> sticks, trees and wreaths up well in advance of Thanksgiving now.
>
> In the article, "The Man God Has Made" there is a picture of a man in a
> business suit
> who is labeled commercialism, with an old tire pump and he is inflating
> the god of
> Christ-Mass, Santa. The commercial world cashes in on Christ-Mass.
>
> 2. Japan - "Though Christians number only approximately one-half of one
> percent of
> the population, more and more of the city people celebrate Christmas.
> The stores foster it because gift-giving increases sales and because the
> Japanese are naturally gift-givers. And since one of the tenets of the
> Buddist (sic) religion is to be polite to other gods, there is no
> religious barrier. "To many who celebrate with gift and greeting,
> Christmas means no more than the celebrating of the birthday of a great
> man. Japan, like the United States, is a prosperous country, and as a
> country becomes prosperous, Christmas tends to become more commercial."
> (Christmas Here & There)
>
> 3. "If all the stores closed and no one could buy anything and all
> parties were outlawed, I suspect the spirit and celebration of Christmas
> would be appreciably diminished. the only time we buy in a frenzy is
> that period between Thanksgiving and December 24." (Ft. Worth Star
> Telegram)
>
> The commercial Christ-Mass is a big thing. The business world, like the
> Catholic
> church, couldn't care less what you call a thing just so it has plenty
> of $$ signs in it.
>
> III. The Christian Christ-Mass
>
> This is a misnomer of the worst sort, but sad to say the $$ signs do get
> into the Christian realms. "For the love of money is the root of all
> evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith,
> and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." 1 Timothy 6:10
>
> There is a lot of compromise among Christians when it comes to
> Christ-Mass!
> There is the compromise of conformity. The celebration of Christ-Mass by
> a Christian is conformity to the world. Christ-Mass is not of God. It is
> not based upon the word of God. It is a religion of satan, the god of
> the world, and yet many Christians go right along with it. They don't
> want to be odd balls. They don't want to go across the grain. They want
> to go along with the world. If you are to get along with this world you
> will just about have to bow to its Christ-Mass god.
>
> 1. There is the compromise of silence. Many know that Christ-Mass is
> wrong; that it is of pagan origin; that it is a blasphemous lie from
> start to finish, yet they keep silent on the subject. These are your
> politician pulpiteers and pew warmers. They won't
> jeopardize their position or standing in the community or church. They
> like to identify
> with both crowds. These are fence straddlers.
>
> 2. Then there is the compromise for money. Some will write tracts,
> articles and books in defense of he Christ-Mass tree because of their
> supporters. Support might Be hindered if they said it was wrong.
>
> Some radio ministries depend on the Christ-Mass money to keep them
> going. Any
> ministry that is dependent upon Christ-Mass dollars is on shaky ground.
> When Bible
> believing Christians depend on Christ-Mass dollars they are at a low ebb
> of faith. A
> ministry dependent on Christ-Mass gifts to keep going is like a preacher
> boy depending on his wife to work and put him through school. Both
> demand compromise for dollars.
>
> Conclusion:
>
> 1. Emphasis on the birth date of Christ is a satanic strategy to deceive
> concerning His eternal existence, His deity. satan would love to keep
> Him in the manger. satan majors on sentiments and emotions related to
> the babe in the manger and gifts to children in the propagation of his
> Christ-Mass lie.
>
> 2. Emphasis on Christ's birth is to deceive concerning His purpose for
> coming to earth. Most people's knowledge of and interest in Christ stops
> at the manger.
>
> 3. Christ went all the way to Calvary, and died for the sins of the
> whole world. He
> arose from the dead after three days. Has satan detained you at the
> manger? No one is saved at the manger. Go on to Calvary!
>
> ©Copyright Raymond Blanton
>
> Copies of this essay are available in tract form by writing to:
> Highway and Hedges Tracts
> 201 maple Court
> Liberty, SC 29657
> U.S.A.
>
>
>
>
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Not getting any attention on the FML, Gary? Poor you. I've got an
idea...post THIS there. You'll get lotsa attention.
Good one today on the FML, btw.....just one question. Why didn't you post
your addy so the FMLers could send you $$$$ for your rent & overdrawn bank
account.
Still having a difficult time *reading* about all the losses & sadness on
the FML now, too? Guess what....alot of people are tired of reading about
your sad life. Get a job. Get a life. And find a good home for your
ferrets & cat. From your description, even your ferret Victoria doesn't
want much to do with you & avoids you as much as possible.
Diane & The Boops
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"Gary" <schooley@vcn.com> wrote in message news:3FAAF084.5510B2A9@vcn.com...
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<snip a whole bunch of ot crap>
Geeze! Leave for a little while and find that someone has had a complete
meltdown. Time to hit google and see what happened. ;-)
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Jason wrote:
> * Gary <schooley@vcn.com>:
>
>>http://www.angelfire.com/ne/savedbygrace/X_Mass.html
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>> Christ-Ma$$
>>
>>"And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but
>>rather reprove them." Ephesians 5:11
>>
>
>
> Wow Gary what exactly do you smoke? I spent a long time working in the
> entertainment industry where recreational pharmacutical usage is an art
> form but not even there did anyone spew off topic garbage like you can.
>
>
> Jason
No to even laced stuff will get to that level of word salad. I suspect
that its years of serious mental disability that caused that sort of
garbage to spew out of his mouth. Either that or a serious amount of
brain damage.
larry
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