The Reform Movement and Fanaticism!
Ellen White said that every reform movement has been
accompanied by Satanic fanaticisms. The reform
movement of today is certainly no different. Read the following articles (links below) to obtain a balanced view
of what the Word of God has to say about celebrating Christmas, thanksgiving,
birthdays etc. There are some who would ban every pleasantry associated with
Christianity. They can’t stand to see themselves or anyone else enjoying
pleasant times of refreshing. Therefore, others can’t stand them and they are a
blight on all that is truth, for they drive away others from the truth, and too
often they drive away their own children from the truth as soon as they become
old enough to see the folly of legalistic fanaticism and won’t be lorded over
anymore!
By the foolish and fanatical reasoning of some
Seventh-day Adventists, we should not worship on Saturday because that day was
celebrated by the pagans as well! http://www.carnaval.com/saturnalia/
A family in Australia, and one in Texas, fault me and
my wife for having Poinsettia plants around the season of Christmas which is
the only time those plants bloom into red leaves. In my youth, I grew them for
a nursery, and we like them for their beauty which God made for us to
appreciate. They refer to me as BAALieu, and consign
me to hell for this act, and for giving thanks for God’s bountiful gifts at harvest
time, associating that thanks with pagan rituals associated with thanksgiving.
Both of these parties seem at all times most miserable in life and spirit. If
such persons won’t change, and they are saved, I would not prefer to spend
eternity with them.
It is interesting as well how they handle the tithe
question. They appropriate it as they see fit and not as the Lord instructs—that it should be solely for the support of the
full time gospel ministry, more specifically the swift messengers with a message,
AND NOT THE POOR. They don’t have the spiritual discernment to see that in this
disavowal of God’s instructions, they are as guilty as any pagan worshipper,
because they follow their own evil spirit of rendering a “cain
offering,” in lieu of what God instructs. They thus avoid what they regard as
evil (the gnat—all the innocent social graces), to
swallow the camel—their own personal opinion in robbing God’s treasury by
totally disregarding His specific instruction on the sacred tithe. Ellen White
said in no case is the tithe to be given to the poor. That it is solely for the
full time workers in the ministry of the gospel. So these reprobate types try
to ease their conscience by indicting me with Baal worship for following Ellen
White’s counsel in regard to certain holidays.
Then one of these individuals from Australia says that
he regularly takes data from my Website for his home church Sabbath sermons.
What?! Going to what he and his wife call Baal for sermon material! As Ellen
White often opined: “Consistency is a Jewel!”
http://www.orlutheran.com/html/jer10.html
https://omega77.tripod.com/neofanaticism.htm