Christmas and Syncretism (Free Puritan and Reformed Resources)

7 FREE MP3s: History of Holy Days (Sabbath, Lord's Day, Christmas, Easter, etc.) by Dr. Steven Dilday
Much needed preaching in our day, when many Protestants worship more like Roman Catholics than like the best Puritans and Reformers. This sermon contains much important Scriptural and historical information.

All human inventions which are set up to corrupt the simple purity of the Word of God, and to undo the worship which he demands and approves, are true sacrileges, in which the Christian man cannot participate without blaspheming God, and trampling his honour underfoot. - John Calvin on the Puritan Hard Drive

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Is Easter Biblical? (Free MP3s, Books, etc.)

"My heart burned within me as I discovered truths from hundreds of years ago." - Pastor Phil Gibson (UK) on the Puritan Hard Drive

"Christmas was not celebrated by the apostolic church. It was not celebrated during the first few centuries of the church. As late as A.D. 245, Origen (Hom. 8 on Leviticus) repudiated ...the idea of keeping the birthday of Christ, "as if he were a king Pharaoh." By the middle of the 4th century, many churches in the Latin west were celebrating Christmas. During the 5th century, Christmas became an official Roman Catholic holy day. In A.D. 534, Christmas was recognized as an official holy day by the Roman state.The reason that Christmas became a church holy day has nothing to do with the Bible. The Bible does not give the date of Christ's birth. Nowhere in the Bible are we commanded to celebrate Christmas. Christmas (as well as many other pagan practices) was adopted by the Roman church as a missionary strategy." - The Regulative Principle of Worship and Christmas by Brian Schwertley (FREE BOOK)

"The most complete collection of classic and rare Puritan and Covenanter works. "We rejoice to see so many long out of print works available in an easily affordable & searchable format." - Brian Schwertley on the Puritan Hard Drive

In 1899, the General Assembly of the PCUS was overtured to give a "pronounced and explicit deliverance" against the recognition of "Christmas and Easter as religious days." Even at this late date, the answer came back in a solid manner: "There is no warrant in Scripture for the observance of Christmas and Easter as holydays, rather the contrary (see Gal. 4:9-11; Col. 2:16-21), and such observance is contrary to the principles of the Reformed faith, conducive to will-worship, and not in harmony with the simplicity of the Gospel of Jesus Christ." - Kevin Reed, Christmas: An Historical Survey Regarding Its Origins and Opposition to It (Free Online Book)

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