With Christmas coming around and all the memes I have seen on how it is pagan in origin, I am seeing the “Church” section on this thrown around a lot in defense of Christmas. I have covered some information on the New Covenant in a previous comic, but wanted to focus this one on the logic being used by the “Church” section.

For demonstration purposes, I am going to pick on the color red.

By the logic in the “Church” section, if in the Old Covenant, God said it was evil to wear the color red. All things red needed to be cut down and burned and anyone caught wearing red should be thrown out of the assembly. RED IS EVIL.

Now Christ came and did away with the Old Covenant, so now red is no longer evil. Red can be considered GOOD. Because the New Covenant is on our hearts, it will tell us if what we are doing is evil or not.

Do you see the problem with this? If not, let me expound. God, who is GOOD and our ONLY source of GOOD, says something is EVIL. Skip down the line a few thousand years and now what was EVIL can now be considered GOOD. A change. We know God doesn’t change (Malachi 3:6). So if GOOD changes, this in turn would mean God changed because He is our source for GOOD, thus making God a liar. Also, if we look up Scripture related to our hearts, you will find that we are told to circumcise them (cutting off it’s desires) because their desires can lead us astray (Prov. 28:26, Jer. 17:9, Matt. 15:19), so trusting our own heart on what is good and evil is not the way to go.

What is the way to go? Looking back to the Father on what good and evil is and doing what He told us! This is what Jesus taught over and over. He said several times his doctrine was not his own, but the Father’s. God does not change, so His instruction on what good and evil are would not change. In the New Covenant, good and evil are still the same good and evil they were in the Old, and even before the Old. Good has always been good, and evil will always be evil. If these definitions can change, what hope do we have?