Question by Steven C: Why Do Most Christians Think That Christmas Has Anything To Do With The Birth Of Yeshua?
Christmas is a holiday shared and celebrated by many religions.
It is a day that has an effect on the entire world.
To many people, it is a favorite time of the year involving gift giving, parties and feasting. Christmas is a holiday that unifies almost all of professing Christendom.
The spirit of Christmas causes people to decorate their homes and churches, cut down trees and bring them into their homes, decking them with silver and gold.
In the light of that tree, families make merry and give gifts one to another.
When the sun goes down on December 24th, and darkness covers the land, families and churches prepare for participation in customs such as burning the yule log, singing around the decorated tree, kissing under the mistletoe and holly, and attending a late night service or midnight mass.
What is the meaning of Christmas? Where did the customs and traditions originate?
You, as a Christian, would want to worship the Lord in Spirit and in truth, discerning good from evil.
The truth is that all of the customs of Christmas pre-date the birth of Jesus Christ, and a study of this would reveal that
Christmas in our day is a collection of traditions and practices taken from many cultures and nations.
The date of December 25th comes from Rome and was a celebration of the Italic god, Saturn, and the rebirth of the sun god.
This was done long before the birth of Jesus.
It was noted by the pre-Christian Romans and other pagans, that daylight began to increase after December 22nd, when they assumed that the sun god died.
These ancients believed that the sun god rose from the dead three days later as the new-born and venerable sun.
Thus, they figured that to be the reason for increasing daylight.
This was a cause for much wild excitement and celebration. Gift giving and merriment filled the temples of ancient Rome, as sacred priests of Saturn, called dendrophori, carried wreaths of evergreen boughs in procession.
In Germany, the evergreen tree was used in worship and celebration of the yule god, also in observance of the resurrected sun god.
The evergreen tree was a symbol of the essence of life and was regarded as a phallic symbol in fertility worship.
Witches and other pagans regarded the red holly as a symbol of the menstrual blood of the queen of heaven, also known as Diana.
The holly wood was used by witches to make wands.
The white berries of mistletoe were believed by pagans to represent droplets of the semen of the sun god.
Both holly and mistletoe were hung in doorways of temples and homes to invoke powers of fertility in those who stood beneath and kissed, causing the spirits of the god and goddess to enter them.
These customs transcended the borders of Rome and Germany to the far reaches of the known world.
The question now arises: How did all of these customs find their way into contemporary Christianity, ranging from Catholicism to Protestantism to fundamentalist churches?
The word “Christmas”itself reveals who married paganism to Christianity.
The word “Christmas” is a combination of the words “Christ” and “Mass.
The word “Mass” means death and was coined originally by the Roman Catholic Church, and belongs exclusively to the church of Rome.
The ritual of the Mass involves the death of Christ, and the distribution of the “Host”, a word taken from the Latin word “hostiall” meaning victim!
In short, Christmas is strictly a Roman Catholic word.
A simple study of the tactics of the Romish Church reveals that in every case, the church absorbed the customs, traditions and general paganism of every tribe, culture and nation in their efforts to increase the number of people under their control.
In short, the Romish church told all of these pagan cultures, “Bring your gods, goddesses, rituals and rites, and we will assign Christian sounding titles and names to them.
When Martin Luther started the reformation on October 31st, 1517, and other reformers followed his lead, all of them took with them the paganism that was so firmly imbedded in Rome.
These reformers left Christmas intact.
In England, as the authorized Bible became available to the common people by the decree of King James the II in 1611, people began to discover the pagan roots of Christmas, which are clearly revealed in Scripture.
The Puritans in England, and later in Massachusetts Colony, outlawed this holiday as witchcraft.
Near the end of the nineteenth century, when other Bible versions began to appear, there was a revival of the celebration of Christmas.
We are now seeing ever-increasing celebrating of Christmas or Yule, its true name, as we draw closer to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ!
In both witchcraft circles and contemporary Christian churches, the same things are going on.
As the Bible clearly states in Jeremiah 10:2-4, “Thus saith the Lord, learn not the way of the heathen; and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven. For the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain. For one cutteth a tree out of the forest. The work of the hands of the workman with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold. They fasten it with nails and with hammers that it move not.”
So, what is wrong with Christmas?
1. To say that Jesus was born on December 25th is a lie! The true date is sometime in September according to the Scriptures.
2. Trees, wreaths, holly, mistletoe and the like are strictly forbidden as pagan and heathen! To say that these are Christian or that they can be made Christian is a lie!
3. The Lord never spoke of commemorating his birth but rather commanded us to remember the sacrifice of His suffering and death, which purchased our salvation.
Think about it! Can we worship and honor God by involving ourselves with customs and traditions, which God Himself forbade as idolatry? Can we convince God to somehow “Christianize” these customs and the whole pretense and lie of Christmas, so we can enjoy ourselves? Can we obey through disobedience?
So what is right about Christmas? 1. Nothing!
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Answer by Moiraes Fate
2000 years of brainwashing by their religious leaders and they’re stupid enough/gullible enough to believe everything they’re told.
Give your answer to this question below!
I know. I don’t think we should just celebrate the birth and death and ressurection of Christ twice a year (Christmas and Easter), why can’t we just celebrate it all the time? I’m not really big on those holidays.
Since we don’t know the exact day of our Lords birth, we celebrate on this one. I don’t do the santa clause and elves thing.
Why make such a generalized statement?
I’m Christian and I know that Christmas is a man made holiday, created, supposedly, to celebrate the birth of our Savior. Scripture says nothing about celebrating the birth of Christ.
So, you shouldn’t make such blanket statements.
Every scum sucker know christmas is non christian. It is just a commercial excuse to make money.
No body knows Jesus birthday.
Are you asking a question or making a statement???
Well, your “question” is obviously not a question at all…
There was no ancient Roman celebration on December 25th – the festival of Saturnalia was observed on December 17th. The first Roman festival observed on December 25th was the feast in honor of Sol Invictus, which was instituted by Aurelian in the 3rd century AD. By that time, Christians in Rome were already celebrating Christmas on December 25th. In other words, it is more likely that Aurelian’s holiday was meant to offer a Christmas alternative to Pagans, and not vice versa.
Christians observed the birth of Christ on December 25th based on early calculations on the birth of Christ. Assuming that Herod died in 1 AD, early Christians dated the birth of Christ to late December or early January of 1 BC. The date was influenced more by the Christian observance of Theophany (late January) and the Jewish Feast of Dedication than it was any Pagan celebration.
The idea that Jesus was born in late March or early April are based on an assumed birth year of 4 BC. If you move his birth to 1 BC, you move his birth back by one month per year (based on the courses serving in the Temple). If Jesus was born in 1 BC, this puts his birth in late December or early January. This also accounts for the crowded “inn” in Bethlehem – it was crowded because of all the pilgrims in Jerusalem during the Feast of Dedication.
Agreed. A couple of things to point out:
1)My study shows that around October 15th or 16th 5 BC was the Messiah’s birthdate, placed upon the Roman calendar. Biblically, it would have been the first day of Sukkot, which, in 5 BC, would have taken place on the above date.
2)xmas mirrors, in a way, the sukkot festival idea, except at the wrong time(which shows who the ‘author’ of it is). Think about this: on the FIRST day, December 25, it is a holiday, no work. On the EIGHTH day is New Years Day, and there is no work either. See the pattern? Same idea, but by a ‘different commander’. And you know who they follow.
Thought you might enjoy this. Shabbat shalom.
It is the day that the Church celebrates
CHRIST MASS
The Church is the Pillar of Truth, Not the Bible
1Ti 3:15 if I am delayed, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the truth. (n.b. he did not say that the Bible was the pillar and buylwark of the truth…..but the Church who wrote the Bible.)
Wow. You seem to have done a lot of research without learning anything.
Some things you have missed:
1. Christians who know their history understand that Christmas is not Christ’s birthday but rather a celebration of His birth.
2. While Christ didn’t say to celebrate his birthday, I’m sure his Mom and friends did.
3. Christ did tell His Apostles that whatever they established on Earth was also established in Heaven.
4. The Apostles were given wide authority (yes, even forgiving of sins – ‘Receive ye the Holy Ghost. Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them, and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained.’) and they were never told not to celebrate anything.
5. Remember “for every thing there is a season.”
6. Why do you think this is the year 2007 and not 2011?
7. Why do we celebrate Independence Day as July 4th 1776 and not October 13 1777?
Brethern,
Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.
And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire: