• "It was for this very reason that in Calvin's Geneva you could have been fined or imprisoned for celebrating Christmas. It was at the request of the Westminster Assembly that the English Parliament in 1644 passed an act forbidding the observance of Christmas, calling it a heathen holiday. In an appendix to their 'Directory for the Public Worship of God' the Westminster divines said: 'There is no day commanded in scripture to be kept holy under the gospel but the Lord's day, which is the Christian Sabbath. Festival days, vulgarly called 'Holy-days', having no warrant in the word of God, are not to be continued.' (See also, James Bannerman, The Church of Christ, Vol. 1, pages 406-420). When the Puritans came to America they passed similar laws. The early New Englanders worked steadily through December 25, 1620, in studied neglect of the day. About 40 years later the General Court of Massachusetts decreed punishment for those who kept the season: '...anyone who is found observing, by abstinence from labor, feasting, or any other way, any such days as Christmas Day, shall pay for every such offense five shillings'" (Is Christmas Christian?, https://www.swrb.com/newslett/actualNLs/Xmas_ch2.htm).

Classic Reformation (Puritan & Reformed) Teaching On Christmas and Other Holy Days, Or Christmas, and All Man-Made Holy Days, Condemned By Christ In the Bible (Free MP3s, Videos & Online Books)

John Calvin Against Christmas (Christ-Mass), Dec. 25 Sermon
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• Abrogation of Festivals. On Sunday 16 November 1550, after the election of the lieutenant in the general Council, an edict was also announced respecting the abrogation of all the festivals, with the exception of Sundays, which God had ordained. – Register of the Company of Pastors (Geneva, 1550).

• "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

Did CHARLES SPURGEON Celebrate Christmas?

• 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 the mass at all, but abhor it, whether it be said or sung in Latin or in English; and, secondly, because we find no Scriptural warrant whatever for observing any day as the birthday of the Savior; and, consequently, its observance is a superstition, because not of divine authority. - Charles Spurgeon, Sermon on Dec. 24, 1871, emphases added

CHRONOLOGY OF CHARLES SPURGEON'S GROWTH IN GRACE REGARDING CHRIST-MASS (AKA CHRISTMAS)

• When it can be proved that the observance of Christmas, Whitsuntide, and other Popish festivals was ever instituted by a divine statute, we also will attend to them, but not till then. It is as much our duty to reject the traditions of men, as to observe the ordinances of the Lord. We ask concerning every rite and rubric, "Is this a law of the God of Jacob?" and if it be not clearly so, it is of no authority with us, who walk in Christian liberty. - Charles Spurgeon, Treasury of David on Psalm 81:4., emphases added

Christ-Mass (Christmas) A Roman Catholic Missions Strategy (Much Free!)

• 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 ONLINE BOOK or on the Puritan Hard Drive

How Christmas Idolatry Corrupts, Perverts, Adulterates, Debases & Defiles the Soul, & Tearing Down Monuments To Idolatry, by Reformed Scholar and Pastor Jim Dodson (Free MP3) (Blog)
One of the best sermons you will ever hear about why keeping Christmas is a sin and detrimental to the state of the soul.

How Christmas Keeping Denies The Gospel & First Coming Of the Lord Jesus Christ, or Fearing the Keeping of Holy Days & the Spiritual Bondage of Christmas, Easter, Etc., by Covenanter Scholar and Pastor Jim Dodson (Free MP3)

• The highest of all holidays in the Satanic religion is the date of one’s own birthday. ... So, the Satanist celebrates his own birthday as the most important holiday of the year. ... You should give yourself a pat on the back, buy yourself whatever you want, treat yourself like the king (or god) that you are, and generally celebrate your birthday with as much pomp and ceremony as possible. - The Satanic Bible (Anton LaVey)

BIRTHDAYS: PAGAN/OCCULT ORIGINS & THE HIGHEST OF ALL HOLY DAYS (HOLIDAYS) IN THE SATANIC BIBLE

• "The word for Christmas in late Old English is Cristes Maesse, the Mass of Christ... Christmas was not among the earliest festivals of the Church. ... In the Scriptures sinners alone, not saints, celebrate their birthday.

George Gillespie, one of the Scottish Commissioners to the Westminster Assembly, and one of the greatest theologians since the days of the Apostles, writes,