- Christmas is fraught with lies

- Our Messiah was certainly not born on December 25 but a false messiah, Baal, certainly was

- We are commanded in Scriptures to cling to truth rejecting all falsehood

- Christmas trees are condemned in Scriptures

- Our Messiah did not redeem abominations so as to make them acceptable

- Christianity has generally embraced the lie called “Christmas” and has not repented thereof

- Rev. Flip Benham, assuming the generally-held Christian position on the observance of Christmas, claims submission to the authority of Scriptures yet continues to observe Christmas in violation of Scriptural precepts

- Rev. Benham has been entreated to repent of the lie called “Christmas” and has refused to repent

 The challenge is hereby issued to Rev. Flip Benham or his designee to debate the question in a public forum: Should Bible-believers participate in Christmas?

 The format, time and place of this public debate will be announced after this challenge has been accepted.

This challenge, issued to Rev. Flip Benham, is in fact a challenge to all who claim to submit to the authority of Scriptures, the authority of our Messiah Yahushua yet continue in the abominable practice called “Christmas.”  Baal, the pagan deity who “commands” the murder of innocent children, has been venerated by birthday celebrations on December 25th for thousands of years, and it is this observance that has been adopted by compromising “Christians” in violation of our Father’s commandments.  It is time to thoroughly reject Baal-worship and all of its variants.  It is time to worship only the living Creator YAH and His son Yahushua Messiah. 

 All are invited and encouraged to attend this debate, as the history of this pagan holiday will be revealed in all of its irrefutable truth.  Scriptures will be analyzed in depth to answer the question once and for all.  Should Bible-believers participate in Christmas?  The answer, for all who believe in Messiah Yahushua, must be a resounding, “No!”

Thanks Tim.

Merry Christmas!

 Yesterday, Rev. Flip Benham and I had an hour-long conversation about this question.  Although he acknowledges that Christmas is adapted from Baal-worship, he asserts that “Jesus has redeemed” this abomination.

 After leveling a litany of slurs and insults at me personally – such as “cultist” and “judaizer” – Rev. Benham concluded that he would not debate this issue comparing himself to Nehemiah and me to Sanballat, a reference to Nehemiah 6:2-3.  The comparison is incorrect for this reason: I am not requesting that Rev. Benham stop his work of pleading on behalf of the lives of the unborn, but I am entreating him to repent of the idolatrous, spiritually adulterous abomination known as Christmas. 

 If Christmas is so good, why can it not be defended easily in a public forum?

 The truth is Christmas is from an evil seed.  It is repackaged Baal-worship adopted by compromising Romans and tolerated by protestants until it took over our culture. 

 Like most Christians today, Rev. Benham, does not see the relationship between the murderous act of abortion and the pagan god who commands it.  This same pagan god is venerated at Christmas time with symbols such as wreaths and Christmas trees.  Who is behind Baal but Satan himself?  Baal, otherwise known as Satan, commands the murder of children.  Baal and Satan are venerated at Christmas time even though Christians claim Christmas is the birthday of “Jesus.”  This is a lie; Christmas is not the birthday of the Messiah Yahushua!

 Christmas is a lie, and no lie comes from our Father!  Lies come from the father lies, which is the devil himself.  If Christmas is a lie, then logically, Christmas is from the devil.

 That’s right, Christmas is Satan-worship, and it certainly is a salvation issue!  It is spiritual adultery!

 Christians generally believe that “Jesus” has redeemed this abomination and made it acceptable practice for Christians today.  However, our Messiah redeems PEOPLE and does not redeem abominations.  We are commanded to reject abominations and not pretend to ourselves that abominations are redeemed. 

 Since Flip Benham refuses to debate this question publicly, I hereby issue the challenge to any person who condones the observance of Christmas: can you defend it in a public debate from Scriptures in a controlled forum so that the merits of the arguments can be publicly considered without regard to the person making the arguments? 

 The challenge us thus issued, and I await a reply.

Christmas is Satan-worship, and those who observe it are in mortal danger!  Refute this publicly if you can.

1. The Bible says that the observing or not observing of holy days is not a “salvation issue”:

Consider what the inspired apostle wrote…,

Romans 14:4  Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.
Romans 14:5  One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
Romans 14:6  He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it.

Why do you condemn others who esteem one day higher than you do?  We are taught by the inspired apostle that the keeping or not keeping of specific days IS DEFINITELY NOT a "salvation issue".  Even the devils knew and recognized the apostle’s authority.  By what authority do you then contradict the apostle?:

Acts 19:15  Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but WHO ARE YOU?

Paul was an apostle of Jesus Christ and we cannot deny his teachings on this or any other subject.  This is because we, as living stones,

Ephesians 2:20  … are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;

The doctrine of Christ’s apostles therefore is foundational to our faith as believers in Jesus. 

Please consider therefore the following definitive teaching then:

To summarize:  We have received Christ by faith, nothing more, nothing less.  We are not made “more complete” by the keeping of ceremonial practices, nor are we made “less complete” by forgoing the same.  Rather, we are already complete in Christ by faith.  Therefore, the eating or not eating of “ceremonially unclean meats”, or the observing or not observing of “ceremonially holy days” does not affect our being complete or our complete acceptance in Him.  We see then that an exacting observance of “holy days” is not required by God.  This is absolutely settled by the Holy Ghost, who inspired the apostle.  Since it is the Holy Ghost Who has made the final determination on this matter, we must submit to His will and stop judging ("condemning") others over which days they observe.

 2. Attempting to discredit something by supposedly showing a “pagan origin” is biblically and historically inaccurate:

Consider: you may or may not be aware that there are literally dozens of “false-christ” stories that pre-date our Lord’s coming to earth, and their stories share many similarities to that of our Lord’s.  Many of these Greco-Roman-eastern false-christs were said to have been sired by God and born of virgin women around the time of the winter solstice.  Some were said to have lived moral lives, died as martyrs, and some were even said to have been raised again from the dead.  Using the same “pagan origin” reasoning that you have espoused, Christ’s enemies to this day continue to argue that the story of His coming in the Gospels originates from these pagan myths, because the myths supposedly came first; i.e. the “virgin birth” has a pagan origin; His martyr’s death has a pagan origin; His resurrection has a pagan origin.  They say the Gospels are interpolated and false and that Jesus is therefore “just another myth”; i.e. He is just another false-christ. 

However, just because pagans first believed similar (though twisted) stories about their false-christs doesn’t change the truth about Jesus Christ!  This misleading, (though easily believed) “pagan-origin” type of argument has been around a long time, but was ably answered by one of our “Roman” brothers (Justin Martyr) almost 19 centuries ago.  His reasoned that:

Furthermore, you imply that pagans first used December 25th as their holy day.  You say that pagans worshiped Baal on this day, during this very darkest time in the year, (December 25th occurs very close to the winter-solstice.)  So, the implication of such an argument is that Christians can have nothing to do with this day of the year. 

But I ask, what is the actual true origin of December 25th?  How was this day used before the pagan’s tried to take it over?  Was it not a part of the year, and of the seasons, and of the times that God had made “good” in the very beginning?  Yes it was.  Were not the beautiful evergreens and holly trees likewise a part of God’s good creation then too?  Yes they were.  But you may say “these things that God first made good were later taken by pagans and made evil.”  Well, yes, that would be true, if one first denies the Lordship of God over all His creation.  But denying His Lordship is unbiblical, and mere men cannot actually make anything evil.  The closest thing they can do is change some of God’s creation into a false representation of god, an idol.  But it is manifest that wreaths, and hollys, and trees are not idols, (just as cars, and houses, and furniture are not idols), unless they are worshiped as such.  Likewise, consider my friend that God is the origin of all things; and of December 25th, as well as of every other day.  How can you rather imagine that this day, or any of God’s days belong to mere pagans?  Because we understand that it is God who originates and owns every day, we Christians dutifully:

Because today, as every day,

Psalm 118:24  … is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

Therefore, rather than ceding territory back to the devil, (as your view would require), we should reconsider our theories about the origin of Christmas.  One could just as easily argue that some "Roman" Christians decided way-back-when to take this dark day back from Satan’s followers, and to celebrate the coming of the "Light of World into the darkness” on this day instead.  Their apparent error in reckoning the exact day is perhaps lamentable, but as we have seen above, God does not require the practice of an exact day in order to be saved.  After all, the true, biblical position is that Jesus owns every day; Baal gets nothing, and Satan (the supposed "god of this world") has already been beaten, owns nothing, and has no power, but what our Great God and Saviour Jesus Christ allows him to have.  And this same Jesus is the KING of kings and the LORD of all the earth,…

1 Peter 3:22  Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him!

3. “Christmas Trees” are not condemned in Scripture:

Ashtaroth worship is.

Deuteronomy 16:21  Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.

Since the physical temple and altar of God is no more, it would be impossible for us to literally transgress this commandment against worshiping the goddess Ashtaroth today, except perhaps in the sense of setting up a tree independently and actually worshiping it as some kind of idol.  I don’t know of any people who do that, but I would be with you in condemning such practices if they were occurring. 

Barring literal worship of the tree, today Christians could only transgress the principle implied by this commandment against worshiping trees; which according to the teaching in the New Testament could perhaps be defined as:

…that we should not put a tree, (nor anything else), ahead of our worship of God.  Doing so would of course be spiritual idolatry. 

My house does not currently have a Christmas tree, but I still wouldn’t condemn the practice of another brother having one, so long as a decorated tree was not getting in the way of God in that brother’s heart and life.  If on the other hand it was, then my view would be that “the tree needs to go.”

4. Attempting to use a ‘false-dilemma’ argument is a logical fallacy:

You impose the false view that there are only two positions in this issue: celebrating Christmas or not celebrating Christmas.  Actually, there is third way: celebrating Jesus Christ from the heart at Christmas time, while eschewing the secular junk that has nothing to do with Him.  I would beg you to look not only on the outward appearances only, but rather also consider the hearts of Christ’s followers as well.  Though you may disagree with them in some outward point, yet you may be surprised by the pious notions and sincere love of their hearts towards the Lord and towards His people…

5. One who erects walls of division between believers over non-essentials is a wicked abomination to Jesus:

Proverbs 6:16,18  These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:,… he that soweth discord among brethren.

Consider also the wrath of the Great Shepherd against all those who would hurt and maim His precious sheep.  As proven above, He has spoken on this issue and it is now settled.  If you persist therefore in continuing to attack the body of Christ; if you continue to damn His people over something He Himself has deemed to be a non-essential, you will be making yourself an abomination in His sight. 

Please consider His judgment to come.  Jesus “is even at the door.”  Labor yourself therefore to “be found by Him in peace.”  Set aside your misplaced attacks against Christ’s own body and judge your heart in the inspired light of Christ’s requirements:

 Thank you...

 ~ Douglas Huband