The author's argument is: Frankly, Christmas is farce, and I’m betting the whole thing makes God very angry.
So God is very angry at us having Christmas and it's a farce.
Your position is:Christianizing distinctively pagan holydays, and basically making observing the yearly observance of Rome mandatory.
So Christmas is a pagan ritual and you're doing your part to support Christianity.
My position is: Bring on the eggnog. God is most please when we are celebrating Him.
Three different views. But people would do well to check their bibles on how many times God talks about feasts and celebrations.
The issue is not motive, it is method.
So God is very angry at us having Christmas and it's a farce.
I would not say that is true of those all who celebrate it outof right motive but in ignorance, nor who support Joel Osteen out of sincere motive, and thus need more light, but i believe God is opposed to the annual celebration of Christmas, due the reasons i stated, and is not happy with Christians who demean those who sincerely oppose it in sincere desire to please God according to Scripture.
And i find it especially incongruous for Reformed believers to submit to a annual tradition of a Christianized pagan feast that is not seen in Scripture, and contrary in principle to it, but it is product of RC syncretism, and is treated as obligatory, so that those who dissent based on Scripture are marginalized or even attacked. This is the reality which testifies to this essentially being that of teaching for doctrines the traditions of men.
So Christmas is a pagan ritual and you're doing your part to support Christianity.
A Christianized pagan festival that is a product of attempting to reform paganism, not worship as new creations in Christ.
Three different views. But people would do well to check their bibles on how many times God talks about feasts and celebrations.
Indeed. And see where the NT church was taught to engage in the annual celebrations of days, months times and years, outside of the 1st day having a precedent as a specific day of meeting.
For indeed opposition to Christmas is not a product of Rome, but opposition to it has Reformed support.
Christmass Condemned By Christ 2/3 Puritan & Reformation
Spurgeon on Christmas…
“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 Saviour; and, consequently, its observance is a superstition, because not of divine authority.”
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.”
Spurgeon’s Treasury of David on Psalm 81:4 .