St. Nick or Santa? Harmless Tale or Witchcraft in Disguise?

St. Nick or Santa? 
Jolly Man with a Harmless Tale or Witchcraft in Disguise?

This is really for hard core Christians... to delve deep into the things of God. I realize the new believer, those weak in their faith, or those who don't quite get "God" yet, may not understand the damage being done in the name of Jolly Old Saint Nick... But I hope I present a case that anyone can grasp regardless of spiritual maturity or belief... And belief is where we shall start!!

Question: Would you ask your child to believe in Buddah or Allah or Reincarnation if you thought it would bring your children joy and happiness?

What if you thought a belief in these gods would bring happiness and joy until they were "old enough to know better?"
It might not be harmful, right? YOU know that they aren't real, but what's the harm in your child believing in false gods and religions if it brings happiness and giving, right?
WRONG... and you know it... I don't know of any Christian parent who would ever tell their child to believe and pray to Allah or Buddah or that they came back again in another life. This would be witchcraft, practicing medicine, MAGIC...

You wouldn't take your child to a Hindu temple and have them pray to the god Shiva... you might take them and tell them other people believe in other

gods but you would be sure to tell them those gods are false gods and Jehovah/Jesus is real.

What's UP with Santa? 
-How does he fit down a chimney if he's so big?
-What about chimney fires?
-What if you don't have a chimney?
-How does he get around the world in one night?
-Are the kids kids from rich families in America really better than the kids in third world countries or poor children? uh..yeah... about that one...

Kids are smart... and like the girl in the video at the top of this blog, she was able to pick out the lies as a kid when her peers were not...

Isn't a White Lie OKAY? 
Well, I think you're going to have to go to God on that one. But the basic answer is: there is no "white lie"... We teach children "oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive"... In order to convince kids there is a Santa.. you've got to establish a plethora of lies; just break down that barrier and say "yup, gonna lie, gonna lie to protect each previous lie and I'm going to lie for years..." Ouch!!

Now, I know some Christian parents RELUCTANTLY  don't tell their kids about Santa because they don't want to lie to their kids but it's a struggle.. I want to help you with the struggle... There's more to Santa than lying...

SANTA IS MAGIC!!! 

To explain to children a man who lives in the North Pole with lots of elves... who as the song goes:

"he sees you when you are sleeping, he knows when you're awake, he knows when you've been bad or good so be good for goodness sake.." 

We have to make up more lies...stories... and show how Santa does things: Magic... magic dust, magic reindeer, magic keys to get into houses (by the way, those poor kids around the world... what lie is there to explain why they don't get ninja turtles or the latest xbox? 

"FAITH comes by HEARING and HEARING by the WORD OF GOD..." Romans 10:17

Every child is born with the seed of the knowledge of God on their hearts and it takes a lie, from the pit of hell, to undo that knowledge... and yet that knowledge needs to be cultivated!!

Deuteronomy 6:6-9Amplified Bible (AMP)

6 These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be [written] on your heart and mind. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your [a]children [impressing God’s precepts on their minds and penetrating their hearts with His truths] and shall speak of them when you sit in your house and when you walk on the road and when you lie down and when you get up. 8 And you shall bind them as a sign on your hand (forearm), and they shall be used as [b]bands (frontals, frontlets) on your forehead. 9 You shall write them on the [c]doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Proverbs 22:6

6 
Train up a child in the way he should go [teaching him to seek God’s wisdom and will for his abilities and talents],
Even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Children are to be taught the Word of God and those seeds God plants in every person at birth need to be cultivated and nourished...

But what of Santa? 

Those seeds do not come from God. Children are not born with a knowledge of Santa. Actually, like a parasite or infection, their minds cannot wrap around this fictional tale told as truth... their little moldable minds have to be brainwashed into believing something their little spirits tell them is not true... they have to hear stories over and over... 

The devil comes as an angel of light 

Magic is magic, sorcery is sorcery... there are no "good witches..." Exodus 22:18 is pretty bold as sorcery was so evil in the Israelite camp that he told Moses “You shall not allow a woman who practices sorcery to live.
I woke up the other day and I just could not get this Santa thing out of my head. Something in me kept saying "It's witchcraft.. It's sorcery..."

And then, as I opened my Bible for the day, the first scripture I read was Deuteronomy 18: 9-14
9 “When you enter the land which the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to imitate the detestable (repulsive) practices of those nations. 10 There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or daughter pass through the fire [as a sacrifice], one who uses divination and fortune-telling, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, 11 or one who casts a charm or spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or a necromancer [who seeks the dead]. 12 For everyone who does these things is utterly repulsive to the Lord; and because of these detestable practices the Lord your God is driving them out before you. 13 You shall be blameless (complete, perfect) before the Lord your God. 14 For these nations which you shall dispossess listen to those who practice witchcraft and to diviners and fortune-tellers, but as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you to do so.

The seed of Santa is a seed of a lie... it is designed by the father of lies...John 8:44... 

Prayers sent up to Santa would be sent up to God...those Santa lies, the white lies, the magic should be prayers sent up to God, cultivated by a real belief in God!! 

2 Chronicles 2 :14]Asa did what was good and right in the sight of the Lord his God. 3 He removed the foreign altars and high places and tore down the [pagan] pillars (obelisks, memorial stones), and cut to pieces the Asherim [the symbols of the goddess Asherah]. 

America... God says TEAR DOWN THE HIGH PLACES!! 

Deuteronomy 4:28-30New International Version (NIV)

28 There you will worship man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell. 29 But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul. 30 When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the Lord your God and obey him.

SANTA IS NOT REAL... He is just like the wooden gods the Israelites were told NOT to keep, NOT to worship, NOT to believe in... 

What is the first commandment? 

Bottom line... SANTA IS A god... (little g...)

god definition: a superhuman being or spirit worshiped as having power over nature or human fortunes; a deity.
Santa:super human... no explanation needed for chimney hopping exploits 
Has power over nature or human fortunes:
"he sees you when you are sleeping, he knows when you're awake, he knows when you've been bad or good so be good for goodness sake.." 

He's SUPER HUMAN! HE POSSES SUPER STRENGTH, HE LIVES FOREVER, HE POSSESSES MANY MAGICAL ABILITIES, HE KNOWS ALL, SEES ALL... 

It's one thing to make believe, fairly tales, but to believe? That is faith, that is religion... 

And by the way, ever noticed the name Santa is Satan? Just thought I'd throw that out there! 

Everyone wonders why our country and the world even, are in such a moral decay? 

We exalt lies, promote the belief and practice of magic and witchcraft, put spells on children and have these high places set up all over... 

The children of Israel were always being chided for setting up high places... these were places to worship other gods.. now, they followed the other commandments, kept the feasts, followed the law, sacrificed, brought forth tithes... but that wasn't enough.. they needed more.. they needed entertainment... 

But Doesn't Santa Bring So Much Good? 

I ask you, what good is Santa in a third world country? While the "spirit" of Christmas does get people to give more, and that is great... I would say it's not Santa but JESUS!! 

Santa makes kids ungrateful and greedy..

What is Prayer? 

A prayer to Santa is about asking him for what we want... James 4:3 And even when you ask, you don't get it because your motives are all wrong--you want only what will give you pleasure.

but prayer to God is asking Him what he wants and then asking him for those things...

These letters SEEM cute, but they are prayers, prayers to a fake god... teaching our children to believe in Santa or allowing them to believe in this false deity is a religion...

the real st. nick?

There are many stories about the real man, some of which may be true, as in he gave a poor man money for dowries for his three daughters or that Jesus and Mary appeared by his side in a religious debate.. Either way, people still pray to him and seek his help. But, even as a Christian, he cannot. Only God can answer prayers.

CORPORATIONS NEEDS YOU TO BELIEVE IN SANTA!

There is no war on Christmas... corporations, the life blood of American capitalism lives and breathes through Christmas and the belief in Santa Claus keeps their businesses in the black. There is a reason it's called Black Friday... most businesses

coke NEEDS SANTA!

make or break it on Christmas gifts... Movies, TV shows... are all run by advertising and JCPenny, Kohl's, car dealers... they promote Santa because he promotes SPENDING!

Believe, so you will buy our stuff!! The whole Santa thing is designed to keep the cogs of debt running, corporate greed, even Monsanto, taxes, everything runs on this idea that Americans will spend billions of dollars at the end of the year for various reasons- but Santa is at the top of that list!! Santa keeps jobs, Santa keeps the tax rolls pulling in... 

We don't need God anymore... We have pesticides, fungicide, fertilizers, oil guzzling farm machinery... We don't need God to bless our fields or bring us rain... there's an "app" for everything now...

I leave you with a story from the Pilgrims. The Pilgrims and Native Americans had planted their crops but a drought threatened to wipe it all out. They all desperately needed rain as the Pilgrims were still low on stores and one harvest could mean the difference between full bellies and starvation. The Native Americans called upon their god and did rain dances, but to no avail. The Pilgrims said "we will fast and pray and call upon our God..." Shortly after a light rain fell for 2 weeks, perfectly watering the crops. Many Native Americans came to believe in Jesus as a result of the Pilgrim's prayer, belief, and reliance upon God... 

We don't need to get before God anymore like this... we have Santa, oil, cars, and plastic... And yet...