Journal: Bibliotheca Sacra
Volume: BSAC 106:421 (Jan 1949)
Article: Editorials
Author: Anonymous

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BSac 106:421 (Jan 49) p. 1

Editorials

Christmas Problems

People testify almost without exception that when the season arrives they have a distressing Christmas problem which, when investigated, means that they are called upon to select and mail an ever increasing list of Christmas presents and scores and scores of cards of greetings. The demand upon them is so imperative they hardly realize from whence it comes. As a matter of fact, they are being coerced into something which seems quite unreasonable to them. They are conscious only of the obligations without thought concerning their origin.

The whole country is in the grip of a commercial effort, largely in the hands of Jewish merchants who at heart hate the name of Jesus and who use the name and the coming of the Savior into the world, which Savior they personally reject, to promote a spasm of commercial sales. It is all so artificial and unreal that an earnest Christian may well hesitate before he follows blindly in this mass movement.

In addition to this unreality of a commercialized Christmas is the insult to Christ of a fictitious person named Santa Claus who has claimed the center of the stage on the birthday of the King of kings. An abominable fake and impostor has taken the place of the One for whom the day is set apart. Children are permitted to believe a falsehood respecting this impostor.

The whole thing is so aside from the truth that Christ came into the world as a Savior that many Christians are justified in hesitating before they become a part of such untruth, even if to hesitate is to become a “joy killer” and to deprive children of much pleasure. What a rare time is Christmas day for children to become acquainted with Christ and to learn something of God’s real gift to them!

BSac 106:421 (Jan 49) p. 2

Dispensationalism

A thoughtless criticism of the Dallas Theological Seminary is raised over the fact that the dispensational aspect of truth is included in both the theological and Bible courses as taught in the Seminary. Of course the Dallas Seminary teaches the dispensational aspect of truth. The aim of the Seminary is to prepare men for expounding the Scriptures—which type of men is the need in every pulpit today. A true expositor of the Scriptures has never been secured apart from the recognition of dispensational distinctions. What can a preacher do, if he attempts to expound the whole Word of God without knowing the difference between Judaism and Christianity?

The colossal, misleading mistake usually found in courses of theology is the supposition that Judaism and Christianity merge into one system. This supposition is based on the fact that both systems are in the Bible, and the conclusion that therefore they must be one. Yet ...

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