1. December 25 th is the birthday of Pagan Sun gods not Jesus' birthday.
2. God does not want his followers to worship him the way Pagans worship their gods. Deuteronomy 12:29-32
Such pagan customs during the winter solstice include:
Such pagan customs during the winter solstice include:
a. Romans Saturnalia Gave gifts of Holly wreaths
b. Celts/Norse ... Believed Mistletoe was sacred and could protect from lightning, it's associated with Frigga the love goddess. Romans performed fertility rites under it, kissing is a tamer version of what went on then.
c. Romans Laurel wreaths Sacred to sun god apollo: believed this is where the seasonal hanging wreaths on doors came from.
d. Romans Saturnalia Gift giving
e. Red and Green are the colors used for this particular witches sabbat.
f. Celtic winter solstice Yule log
g. Romans Saturnalia Dies Natalis Invicti Solis (Dec. 25, the birthday of the unconquered sun)
h. Romans/Pagans Saturnalia/ Yule festivities Candles were lit to encourage the sun to grow stronger.
I. 8 reindeer is a symbol of the 8 sabbats and the horned one. used to be an 8 legged horse that Odin would ride on
J. Caroling/ Wassaling
K. Evergreen tree Vikings, Saxons, and Celts worshiped them.
It was believed Odin left gifts under them, Greeks worshipped Adonia by decorating them.
3. The bible tells us to prove all things and hold fast to that which is good. 1 Thes 5:21
4. We should study our bible. 2 Tim 2:15
5. We shouldn't do what is right in our own eyes/ put our personal feelings over God's word. Deuteronomy 12:8, Jeremiah 17:9
6. Don't do what the world does. Romans 12:1-2
7. We are to choose who we are to worship either the Lord or other gods. Joshua 24:15, 1 Corinthians 10:21
8. Christian must keep themselves from pollution's/meats offered unto idols. Acts 15:20, 28-29 , Act 21:25
9. You will not find any of the traditions of Christmas in the bible but in Pagan traditions which reject God's commands.
Mark 7:6-13, Mat 15:1-9
Mark 7:6-13, Mat 15:1-9
10. Elves are demonic entities that Witches call out to during their incantations, it's also a fable that santa's elves at the north pole make toys for children.
(1 Timothy 1:4, 4:7, 2 Tim 4:4, Titus 1:14, 2 Peter 1:16)
11. Aaron's sons were destroyed for offering strange fire. Lev 10:1-2
12. Uzziah had good intentions yet was destroyed for putting his hand to the ark. 2 Samuel 6:6-7
13. King Uzziah became a leper for offering incense. 2 Chro 26:16-21
14. Saul was rejected as king for worshiping the Lord wrong. 1 Sam 13:8-14
15. Other god's are Idols, Idols are devils.
Deut 32:17, Psa 106:36-38, 1 Corinthians 10:20, Rev 9:20
16. You are not to Eat a food if someone tells you it's offered to Idols. 1 Corinthians 10:27-29
17. Christmas originates from Pagan backgrounds such as Yule, and Saturnalia see # 2.
18. Jesus said that the Majority are on the wrong road.
Mat. 7:13, 14
19. I would be offending my brother and wounding their weak conscience. 1 Corinthians 8, Romans 14:13-21
20. We are to obey our bosses unless they tell us to sin.
Exodus 1:17, Daniel 3, Acts 5:29, Romans 13:1-2, Col 3:22
21. We are to flee idolatry 1 Corinthians 10:14
22. We are to keep ourselves from idols. 1 John 5:21
23. We are to love our neighbor as ourselves which means we shouldn't ask them to make an offering to other gods.
Exo 22:20, James 2:8
24. Christmas comes from Catholicism which attempted to make pagan holidays christian holidays. Note: Catholicism excels at breaking Gods laws. (Praying to Mary/Saints, worshiping graven images, vain repetitious prayers, calling men father, worshiping the Pope, etc.)
25. We should worship God in spirit and truth. John 4:24
26. You are breaking one of the 10 commandments when you tell your kid santa is real. Lying. which will send you to the lake of fire if you don't repent. Col 3: 9, Revelation 21:8
27. It teaches kids to be Covetous which Jesus told us to Beware of, the Lord Abhors those who are, and we should be content with what we have. Luke 12:15, Psa 10:3, Hebrews 13:5
28. "3 wise men"? who showed up at the manger? Dec 25 th his birthday? It's another gospel. Galatians 1:7-9
29. And another Jesus. 2 Corinthians 11:1-4
30. Robbing Children's faith with the santa myth, teaches them to only believe in what they can see. Colossians 2:8 Ephesians 2:8
31. God doesn't want us to pollute his name with gifts and idols. Ezekiel 20:39
32. What does God think concerning Worshiping Under Every green tree?
Deut 12:2, 2 king 16:1-4, 2 Chron 28:1-4, Isaiah 40:20, Isa 44:19, Isa 57:5, Jer 3:6, Jer 3:13, Jer 10:3-4, Eze 6:13, Eze 20:31-32
33. The Lord rejected Cains offering for bringing an alternative sacrifice. Gen 4
34. We are to desire his precepts but hate false ways.
Psa 119:128
35. The Lord expects us to be noble and search the scripture to know true worship Acts 17:11
36. The Lord gave Scripture to make us perfect, and it doesn't mention Xmas. 2 timothy 3:16-17
37. Being a friend to the world is being an enemy of God James 4:4
38. It's vain worship, honouring God with their lips but their heart is far from him. see #9
39. Christ died Once for sins, the Mass is repeatedly butchering him over and over and over. Heb 9:25-28, 10:10, 10:12, 10:14.
Christmas was invented in the 4th century when the Catholic Church invited all the pagans to church and told them they could keep all their gods/goddesses we will just rename them, the early Christians never celebrated it.
40. The Lord condemns bringing any item of false religion into our houses. Deuteronomy 7:25-26
41. "Witch ball- an 18th century tradition; a glass sphere hung in windows to ward off evil spirits. This is where the christian concept of the christmas tree ornament came from"
Erik Ravenswood, The Dictionary of Wicca, Witchcraft and Magick, Booktango, 2013, ISBN: 9781468927320
42. God forbids adopting practices of the Pagans around us. Leviticus 18:3-5
43. The Lord forbids Sun worship. Deut 4:15-19, Jer 8:2, Ezek 8:15-16
44. The Lord gave us baptism and his supper to remember his death. Rom 6:3-5, 1 Cor 11:26
45. The Lord loves it when we give up dear things to prove that we love him Matthew 10:37-39, 16:24, see also Hebrews 11:25
46. The Lord calls Jewish holidays matters of Liberty but not Pagan holidays. Romans 14:5-6, Colossians 2:16
47. Celebrating Christmas is quite similar to the instance in the bible of Jeroboam's two calves. 1 Ki 12
48. In 1 Corinthians 10:6-7 Paul refers to Exodus 32 that we shouldn't do what Israel did in committing Idolatry, They worshiped a golden calf even though the authority figure (Aaron) said it was a feast to the Lord.
49. It breaks the third commandment by taking his name in vain.
50. Santa is Satan's impostor version of God. Old nick is a common British name for the devil, Kris Kringle is German for little Christ Child. see my post on Santa Claus for details.
51. You shouldn't do unto the Lord what he has condemned.
Deut 12:1-4
52. It used to be a crime in America when this nation truly feared God.
53. Secular Encyclopedia's tell us it came from sun god worship.
54. Loving Jesus is Keeping his commandments John 14:15
55. Christmas is not a matter of Liberty left up to our conscience/and/or heart preferences.
Galatians 5:13, Romans 6:15,
56. True Christians will not follow a group into false worship. Exodus 23:2
57. A time of uninhibited greed, covetousness, materialism does not honor the Lord.
Matthew 6:19-24, Colossians 3:2, 1 Timothy 6:10, 1 John 2:15,
58. The pilgrims seeking to worship God in truth, banned it in 1620.
59. The puritans charged a 5 shilling fine for keeping it in 1659.
60. Jesus' probably wasn't born in December, the shepherds wouldn't have been out in the field. Luke 2:8. Also wise taxation would have been after harvest not in winter.
61. We shouldn't still be doing those things. 1 Peter 4:1-4
62. Christmas USA - style is oppression of parents by greedy children . Isa 3:1-5, 12
63. Other religions (Wicca, Atheism, etc) celebrate it while despising Jesus. Luke 16:15, John 15:19
64. The bible teaches Moderation Philippians 4:5
65. Groves are associated with Idolatry in the bible.
Exo 34:13, Deu 7:5, 12:3, Jdg 3:7, 6:25
1Ki 14:15, 14:23, 15:13 , 16:33, 18:19, 2Ki 17:10, 17:16, 18:4, 21:3 , 21:7, 23:6, 23:7, 23:14, 23:15, 2Ch 14:3, 17:6, 19:3, 24:18 , 31:1 33:3 33:19 34:3-4,7
Isa 17:8 , 27:9, Jer 17:1 , 17:2, Mic 5:14
66. We are not to Learn the way of the heathen Jeremiah 10
67. We are not to add or take from God's word Deut 4:2
68. A star is used as a graven image in Amos 5:26 and Acts 7:43
The five pointed star is used heavily in witchcraft.
69. Covetousness is Idolatry Colossians 3:5, Ephesians 5:5
70. Observing days, months, times and years, Galatians 4:8-11
71. We are to come out from among them and be separate.
2 Corinthans 6:14-18.
72. God speaks of his servants eating things offered unto idols and that he will throw them into great tribulation unless they repent Revelation 2:14, 20-22
73. We are to stay away from things even if it looks evil.
1 Thess 5:22
74. I watched one popular christian claim they could celebrate this "holiday" because they said in the old testament they celebrated the feast of booths with "tree-like decorations". Look it up!! It wasn't tree like decorations, they used the tree branches to build booths not to decorate. Leviticus 23, Nehemiah 8
75. We are not to go in debt. Romans 13:8
76. It's traditions were birthed from the Envy of Pagan worship. Proverbs 23:17
77. Christmas songs have Pagan origins (Deck the halls, Twas the night before christmas, It's beginning to look alot like christmas, 12 days of Christmas).
78. Or are Fiction (Drummer boy).
79. The Christmas tree is a Fertility symbol of the Male Phallus.
80.The Christmas wreath is a Fertility symbol of the Female Womb.
81. Research Birthdays in the Bible.
81. Research Birthdays in the Bible.
(Gen 40, Job 1 and 3, Ecclesiastes 7:1, Matthew 14, Mark 6)
82. World hunger isn't caused by a lack of food but a lack of money, if people would stop wasting money on Christmas toys/decor and instead used it to feed the poor it could possibly end world hunger or at least severally diminish it.
83. We are to be a peculiar people. Titus 2:14, 1 peter 2:9
84. Your inviting devils into your house. 1 Corinthians 10:20
85. There is such a thing as false Christians and Teachers!
(Matt 7:15, :23, Acts 20:29-31, 2Corinthians 11:13-15, 26, 2 Peter 2
86. You are Teaching children to fear other gods.
(2 kings 17: 37-38, Psa 34:11, 111:10)
87. Gifts pervert Judgment. (Exodus 23:8, Deut 16:19-21, Proverbs 17:23)
88. Being Holy. ( 1 Peter 1:14-18)
89. Reveling is bad. Galatians 5:21 (Wassaling)
90. Temperance is Good. Galatians 5:23
91. We shouldn't be fulfilling the desires of the flesh.
Ephesians 2:2-3
92. We are not to walk as other gentiles walk. Ephesians 4:17-19
93. Don't call evil Good. Isaiah 5:20, Mal 2:17
94. We should abhor evil. Rom 12:9
95. It is a cause to separate from other so called Christians
1 Cor 5:6-7, 5:11
96. God doesn't change if he didn't like being worshipped that way in the OT then he doesn't now. Malachi 3:6, Hebrews 13:8
97. It is not Charity to rejoice in iniquity 1 Corinthians 13:6
98. Just search on the origins of Christmas and you might come across the story of Nimrod the Babylonian king who was revered as a god who married his mom (perhaps where the saying "way to go nimrod" came from). Once he died His wife/mother Semiramis who also claimed to be a deity, said that her god/husband went of to talk to some other gods and that he would be reborn, and she would bare him as a virgin. their child was called Tammuz, his birthday Dec. 25th. When God scattered the languages the names of alot of the pagan Gods might have originated from here. Genesis 10:8-10, Jeremiah 7:18, Ezekiel 8:14, Possible relevant Zechariah 5:5-11. Hence the origin of the Mother and child statues of Isis and Horus, the Catholic Mary and Jesus, etc see pagan symbolism post.
99. Mas is latin for Missa meaning to dismiss, literally
"Happy dismissing of Christ"
What happens to those who reject Christ? Matthew 10:33
100. Christians are not supposed to love Pleasures or Family more than God. 2 Timothy 3:4, Matthew 10:37
101. Please don't reject knowledge, where is the discernment? We must Judge righteously and not according the the appearance.
Hosea 4:6, Hebrews 5:14, John 7:24
102. There are many Pagan religions that worships tree's including Buddhism and the Bodhi tree, Hinduism and the fig, Evergreens considered symbols of immortality and fertility.
Wishing tree's- In many parts of the world traveler's have observed the custom of hanging objects on trees in order to establish some sort of relationship between them and the tree. wreaths, ribbons, rags are suspended to win favor for the sick or for luck. Popular belief associates the sites with healing, bewitching, or wishing.
In Arab folklore trees are haunted by Jinn and sacrifices are made, the sick who sleep beneath them receive the prescription in their dreams. Sacred trees remain common in India. The Indian shastras and panchang mentions several ways to worship the environment through plants, one of them being to offer prayers to various trees. They believe in Yakshas or nature spirits that dwell in trees. they worship the trees by placing candles/incense under the tree.
Native Americans worshipped trees and hung things like ribbon, meat, tobacco, and coins.
See also the Egyptians and the sycamore, and the Africans and the Baobab tee.
103. Look up Krampus festival's on youtube to see how the Germans and Austrians celebrate Christmas.
104. If you Love the Lord you supposed to hate evil not mimic it.
Psa 97:10
105. If you celebrate christmas you are not hating the work of them that turn aside, it is cleaving to you. Psa 101:3
106. who can bring an clean thing out of an unclean? Not one. See job 14:4
107. A Corrupt tree cannot bring forth good fruit. Mat 7:18. The fact that christmas has pagan roots proves its bad.
106. who can bring an clean thing out of an unclean? Not one. See job 14:4
107. A Corrupt tree cannot bring forth good fruit. Mat 7:18. The fact that christmas has pagan roots proves its bad.
Bonus : A whole bunch of sites that prove Christmas traditions have pagan origins
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