by John Raymond Nolan

Created on: July 29, 2010   Last Updated: July 30, 2010

DOES GOD LIKE XMAS?

Does God like Xmas, is a question that poses interesting anomalies which deserve to be comprehensively and dispassionately addressed.

Would Christians ever want to reclaim Xmas as a part of our worship?

That question is debatable, and we provide thoughts which may suggest what the world calls Xmas, what the denominational cults call the birthday of Christ, may in fact be a cunning means by which Satan has again deceived, hoodwinked the community, and lead them into a position where they are worshipping Satan, believing they are worshipping God.

What exactly is Xmas?

Xmas is a religious ceremony held on December 25th of each year, in Christian societies, though now many other societies are practising it, as a means to greatly boost sales in a generally-slow fiscal period. It supposedly celebrates, or, as some profess, commemorates, the birth of Jesus, the Christ, the Son of God, the Messiah to Israel; the Saviour of the Gentile children of God.

This sounds good, spiritual, and has, for many years, been a handy decoy to lead the world up a blind alley, straight into the entwining clutches of religious lechers, the demonically inspired grip of religion, instead of the reality of God and His Word.

First we need determine if, indeed, this is anything more than a spurious claim, that Jesus, the Messiah, was born on Dec.25 01 a.d. and if there is any credible evidence to validate this hypothesis. What historical evidence, if any, is tendered to support this assumption?

We hear robed choirs singing about “shepherds watching o’er their flocks at night” and ponder why these shepherds would be so silly as to have their flock of sheep out in sub-zero temperatures? At this time of year, in Palestine, it is winter, and both shepherds and their flocks are safely bedded down in their barns or caves, to escape the freezing conditions outside, especially at night.

“and it was not the custom for the shepherds of Judea to watch their flocks in the open fields later than about the end of October” (Two Babylons. Alexander Hyslop p.91 (S.W. Partridge& Co. London)

We need also establish the time of the Roman census, and, from their comprehensive records, determine the census was held in April, spring, which facilitated easy access, by road, for the many citizens, such as Joseph and Mary, who were required to return to their birth place, to register.

Obviously, if it were mid winter, with below freezing conditions, it

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