Please BEFORE you open up the scriptures check out the context and what the WHOLE passage is actually saying. For example Isaiah 53:4-6 which is completely talking about our sinful nature and NOT our bodies.

“He was wounded for our TRANSGRESSIONS, He was bruised for our INIQUITIES, surely He bore our SORROWS and by His stripes we are HEALED …… and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

The context is talking about SIN. Transgressions is everything to do with our wrong doing and disobedience to God, iniquities is to do with what we are or have become. It speaks of our sinful nature, i.e, a nature that tends/leans towards sin, sinful behaviour, perversion and general twistedness.

This means that Jesus died to save us from our sinful nature and from every individual sins we have committed.

He bore our sorrows which meant that he suffered in our place for all the misery caused by our sin and dealt with the darkness in our souls. All these things were done so that we could be saved from our sins and be brought into a close relationship with God.

So the 4th element “we were healed by His stripes” in context MUST be referring AGAIN to our sinful state. It would not make sense (IN CONTEXT) in isolation of the other 3 for it to refer to natural healing but to spiritual healing. i.e, our separation from God has been healed. It is a healing of reconciliation.

Of course, certain sicknesses are a direct result of sin and are often healed once sin is forgiven. Jesus said “is it easier to say your sins are forgiven, or say rise up take your mat and walk”. In that case Jesus demonstrated the effect of that persons sins being forgiven which was physical healing too.

Word of Faith preachers use those verses (as they do in ALL their doctrines) out of context. they are very selective in what verses they teach on and NEVER show you the full context, but MAKE THE BIBLE say what they want it to say.

Can we find any place in Scriupture

The article written by Justin can be found on a WORD document. It has to be downloaded via your “download” facility. It is not easy to find. I found it by determination by clicking on all the icons. Eventually I found it. It is well worth the effort in pursuing after it because the article is extremely good and very insightful.

Basically you need to keep on clicking on ALL the “Santa Pause” icons UNTIL you find the WORD document download. To save you time, this following link will download the WORD file (after clicking, please check your download facility or the bottom of your screen) for the document.
http://justinpeters.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Santa-Pause2.docx

Great article. I say “amen” to everything you wrote. You are completely spot on!

You have addressed the main points and the major concerns very well. If I wrote an article on this I would have concentrated on those very same issues, especially regarding to what Paul said to the Corinthians in 1 Cor 10 and in 2 Cor 6. There are other things (minor points) you could have said, but the major things HAVE been said.

For example, I could mention how the Illuminati/Masons have used Santa to dupe the world away from pure Christianity. Even the very name santa claus could be an attempt to blind our eyes away from who santa really is, i.e. an anagram santa = satan and claus = lucas (a derivative of “Lucifer”).

The Coca Cola Company hijacked santa around the mid 1900′s in a coca cola advertising campaign. That is quite telling because coca cola is controlled by the Masons and has as its symbols the masonic “all seeing eye” with the (masonic) owl hand gesture shown above the “eye”. So why has coca cola hijacked santa?

I was considering writing an article challenging Christians to stop compromising their pure Christian beliefs at Christmas time and consider taking a stand against the godless traditions/satanic symbolisms. I am too late to publish it this year, but intend to put something together for next year. I hope you don’t mind if I use your material next year? Why is it that Christians cease to be Bible Christians at Christmas time?

I wanted to show how Christians are actually condoning and actively spreading the lie by NOT MAKING A STAND or saying anything and especially if they do the very same things. The Bible has some sharp words to say about those who preach against pagan activities and yet still participate in them. For example Romans 2. Paul tells us “do not be CONFORMED to this world, but be TRANSFORMED by the RENEWING of your minds”. We are also told to “do not participate in the unfruitful works of darkness but instead expose them” Ephesians 5:11. As Justin has shown, the practice of Christmas is one of those unfruitful works of darkness.

It was the Catholic church who introduced “Christmas” celebrations but not until the 4th or 5th century AD. The early church (whom we should all seek to emulate had NOTHING to do with the pagan Roman festival of Saturnalia of the god Mithras (a latter name representing Nimrod and Baal worship). The early church did not celebrate the birth of Jesus – NEITHER SHOULD WE as celebrating birthdays was a pagan expression of recognising the birth dates of the gods.

I once was wrapped around and embraced the WOF movement myself from 1987-2003. Many things never sat well with me that I heard come across the pulpit, but I wanted those things I heard to be true, especially since it was coming from a close family member and his ministry. I fell for it all, hook, line, and sinker. I purchased the sermon tapes from most of the major mainstream WOF ministries. I read and listened to the tapes constantly until it permeated my soul. It wasn’t until my uncle had starting preaching about a miracle juice that we all should be involved in that a light bulb went off in my head. I clearly knew better and when I questioned this practice and the miracle drink, my family said I was in “The name of the – Juice denial”. I knew without a doubt that the marketing Multi-Level-Marketing in the church was not proper, let alone MLM itself. I had fallen victim several years earlier to that deception. Oddly enough I could recognize MLM being wrong, but not the WOF doctrine while I sat underneath it. I set out over a period of 6-8 months to gather facts to disprove MLM and give the results to my uncle who was allowing this in the church and across the pulpit. Little did I know that while I was researching about MLM, that God was showing me something else. He showed me the many parallels between the WOF movement and Multi-Level-Marketing. Or how the top on the ladder (Prosperity Preachers) got richer and the poor got poorer from their giving to the Ministry/Preacher in hopes of reaping a harvest. Just as a MLM leader says buy into this program and you too can be wealthy without doing a thing, you only need to get 6 people under you who do the same and presto….magic…you are rich. All the while, the Distributors (those that buy into the program) are the consumers and don’t even know it. Buy this audio/video tape and use these scriptures and principles to get gain! And the money always makes its way to the top (the preachers) and the poor and needed are fleeced of all they have and are left with (product) shelves of books/tapes and DVD’s.
After my research was complete and showed many questionable practices, which included several news clips and such about WOF and MLM and the like, I placed my findings in a packet on my uncles door step and left that ministry never to return unless Jesus was preached and him only. Sadly things have not changed to this date and many hurting, broke and sincere people remained trapped there. The miracle juice has come and gone only to be repackaged into something else. Please pray for all those ensnared by this false teaching across the world, that the scales may fall from their eyes that keeps them bound.
Justins DVD series “A Call for Discernment” series is both revealing, uplifting and a way to share the truth to a loved one that may be caught up in the mess of WOF. Coming out of the movement, it is hard for me to not get emotional when trying to expose this to a close friend or relative, and thus Justins DVD make a perfect fit from a “third party view”.
Glory and Honor to our Lord Jesus Christ