Re: “10 questions to test your Christmas biblical literacy”
Joseph,
You are a wise man, and you have done much good in the earth for Yeshua. Thank you.
However, I must disagree with you and your Christmas letter to the WND family. And we are a family.
Christmas is broken because it is not ordained or condoned by the Father. The birth of Yeshua, the son of YeHovah was not on Dec 25; it was during Sukkot. He wasn’t born in a manger. Dec 25 has other meanings that show us how HaSatan has deceived us as Greco Roman believers or as I prefer to note as “protesting pseudo Catholics.” We in America in particular do not understand how YeHovah “thinks” about these pagan holidays.
We were not given the authority to change the Word for our convenience. Grace does not trump truth, and the truth is Christmas and its many forms and traditions are based in paganism, and it cannot be uprooted and replanted by well-meaning Christians and produce good fruit.
The fruit of Christmas is evident. Mammon is in charge, and we are pulled off center by this principalities’ wickedness. While some of us as believers are warmed in our hearts by the giving and receiving of gifts and celebrating Yeshua’s birth, the fact still remains that Christmas is rooted in many many half-truths that the Father made clear were not to be practiced. We must walk in the light as He is in the light, which means doing what He does.
So am I the Grinch who stole Christmas? No, I am a simple man who sees that walking out the Word means not changing it for convenience or tradition’s sake.
Your argument for putting Christ back into Christmas is not one that will stand the biblical truth test. We are told to “test all things.” Christmas fails the test.
Warm regards,
Mike Richey
