Letters from Santa

[qwerty guy]

I just came across this thread.

The idea of Santa promotes the idea that we are "good enough." There's a little girl on my wife's side of the family that behaves very badly. She constantly screams at her mom, steals things from school, bullies other kids, and so on. God only knows the things that she does in secret. However, she still gets stuff for Christmas every year. This means she's on Santa's "nice list." She's "Good enough." This very concept was the reason I believed that I was going to Heaven as a child.

I confronted my parents about Santa because I was one of the last people standing up for him in school. I believed to the fullest. So I finally confronted my mother about it. She confessed that he was fake, and then said "But you still believe in God right?" So after I passionately stood up for the guy who flies in a sled and comes down chimneys, I'm supposed to passionately stand up for the Jesus who walks on water and comes back from the dead? YEAH RIGHT!

I did end up believing in God, regardless. Although it was a false God.

To sum it up, the idea of Santa is antigospel and can ultimately hurt a childs faith in God and in whether or not you're telling them the truth.

We are supposed to LOVE Jesus SOOOO MUCH that silly stories like this mean nothing to us.

You're also right.

Down with SANTA!!!!

(chant chant chant)

[BibleBeliever123]

BUMP!

For those who would like to listen to one of the best sermons I've heard on Santa Claus, here's a link to James W. Knox's sermons:

http://www.biblepreaching.com/

Scroll down that page to James Knox and click next to the message "Santa Claus".

Pretty good sermon; especially how he shows how santa imitates the attributes of Jesus Christ.

(Could preach a little harder about the great sin of lieing to your children by saying that he is real.)

[BibleBeliever123]

I just came across this thread.

The idea of Santa promotes the idea that we are "good enough." There's a little girl on my wife's side of the family that behaves very badly. She constantly screams at her mom, steals things from school, bullies other kids, and so on. God only knows the things that she does in secret. However, she still gets stuff for Christmas every year. This means she's on Santa's "nice list." She's "Good enough." This very concept was the reason I believed that I was going to Heaven as a child.

I confronted my parents about Santa because I was one of the last people standing up for him in school. I believed to the fullest. So I finally confronted my mother about it. She confessed that he was fake, and then said "But you still believe in God right?" So after I passionately stood up for the guy who flies in a sled and comes down chimneys, I'm supposed to passionately stand up for the Jesus who walks on water and comes back from the dead? YEAH RIGHT!

I did end up believing in God, regardless. Although it was a false God.

To sum it up, the idea of Santa is antigospel and can ultimately hurt a childs faith in God and in whether or not you're telling them the truth.

We are supposed to LOVE Jesus SOOOO MUCH that silly stories like this mean nothing to us.

Amen.

Rom 3:12
They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

Isaiah 64:6
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

Eph 2:8,9
8For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9Not of works, lest any man should boast.