One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike.
Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. Romans 14:5
"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 any mass at all, but abhor it whether it be sung in Latin or in English.
---Secondly, because we find no Scriptural warrant whatever for observing any day as the birthday of the Savior; and consequently, it's observance is a superstition, because not of divine authority.
---Superstition has fixed most positively the day of our Savior's birth, although there is no possibility of discovering when it occurred. It was not till the middle of the third century that any part of the Church celebrated the birth of our Lord; and it was not till long after the western Church had set the example, that the eastern adopted it.
---Because the day is not known, probably the fact is that the "holy" days were arranged to fit in with the heathen festivals.
*We venture to assert that if there be any day in the year of which we may be pretty sure that it was not the day on which our Savior was born, it is the 25th of December.
*Regarding not the day, let us give God thanks for the gift of His dear Son."
Charles Spurgeon
Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. Romans 14:5
"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 any mass at all, but abhor it whether it be sung in Latin or in English.
---Secondly, because we find no Scriptural warrant whatever for observing any day as the birthday of the Savior; and consequently, it's observance is a superstition, because not of divine authority.
---Superstition has fixed most positively the day of our Savior's birth, although there is no possibility of discovering when it occurred. It was not till the middle of the third century that any part of the Church celebrated the birth of our Lord; and it was not till long after the western Church had set the example, that the eastern adopted it.
---Because the day is not known, probably the fact is that the "holy" days were arranged to fit in with the heathen festivals.
*We venture to assert that if there be any day in the year of which we may be pretty sure that it was not the day on which our Savior was born, it is the 25th of December.
*Regarding not the day, let us give God thanks for the gift of His dear Son."
Charles Spurgeon
