.......... Santa Clause or "St. Nick" is no saint at all.
While Saint Nicholas was originally portrayed wearing bishop's robes, today Santa Claus is generally depicted as a plump, jolly, white-bearded man wearing a red coat with white collar and cuffs, white-cuffed red trousers, and black leather belt and boots.
Let's look at 4 characteristics of Santa Claus and see how they falsely parallel those of Jesus Christ's. In a sense, Santa Claus is a type of anti-christ. In fact, the very name is close, just take the "n" and move it to the end and you have "satan".
1) Santa is portayed as "all knowing".
You've heard the song... "he knows when you've been sleeping, he knows when you're awake, he knows when you've been bad or good ..."
Here, Santa is said to be able to know all about you and to be able to see you at all times. Not only you, but everyone in the world. This ability is only something God can do.
2) To piggy back off of # 1, Santa judges based on works. According to the rules, the only way kids will get toys is if they are good. The bad kids will go without. In contrast, Jesus imputes his righteousness to us when we trust Him for our salvation. True, He knows when we are obedient and not obedient but it does not affect our salvation, only our fellowship.
3) Santa is portrayed as being able to be everywhere at one time.
It is physically impossible to cover the entire globe in one night yet that is what Santa is supposed to be able to do with the special power of his magical reindeer. Even Jesus could not be everywhere when He was walking the earth. This is the reason when He left He sent the Holy Spirit to endwell us. Because it indwells us, He (the Holy Spirit) can be anywhere we are.
4) Santa dresses in all red. Red is the color of sin. Scripture says our sins are scarlett (red) yet Jesus washes us white as snow. In contrast, white is the color of purety. Jesus is always seen in a white robe. When the lost are to be judged before being condemned to Hell, they will stand before the Great White Throne.
Isaiah 1:18 "Come now, and let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool."
Revelation 17:3 "So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns."
Daniel 12:10 "Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand."
Matthew 17:1-3
1 And after six days Jesus takes Peter, James, and John his brother, and brings them up into an high mountain apart,
2 And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.
I know many people are well intentioned with this whole Santa Claus thing, but thanks to "tradition", young children are deceived and when they become adults they pass on the tradition of deception to their children. I don't believe the deception is intentional but founded in ignorance of the truth. As Jack Nicholson said in the movie "A Few Good Men" some ... "can't handle the truth."
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