Friends, I do not want to give any offence nor do I want to take any offense. I want to love and live in peace with all men. I generally want to accept what other men do without forcing my will upon them, even if I disagree with them. I want to bless and never curse. I want to daily give thanks for the Good News of God with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength. But there is something I would like to say about the practice of celebrating “Christmas”… There is no mention of the word “Christmas” in the Scripture. So where do you suppose Christmas originated? Certainly not with God! Christmas started with the sun worshipers during the time of Nimrod, the man who supervised the building of the tower of Babel. Thousands of years before Jesus was born, the heathen in every country observed December 25 as the birthday of a god who was called the sun god. Semiramis, the widow of Nimrod, was his mother. She claimed to be the queen of heaven. And she had a son who was supposed to have been born on December 25; his name was Tammuz. According to all the heathen religions of that time, Tammuz had a miraculous birth; and for centuries his birthday was celebrated with feasts, revelry, and drunken orgies. The heathen celebrated Tammuzs birthday according to the very example he set for them. He was the worlds greatest lover of women, strong drink, dirty jokes, and other sensual fun. It is said that he loved everybody and everybody loved him. And it was December 25 that all the pagan religions celebrated the birthday of Tammuz, the sun god. This is all clearly brought out in Alexander Hislops great book, The Two Babylons. Any reputable encyclopedia will also verify these facts. Some will say, We cant help it if we were born into a pagan world. We cant help it if we were reared and steeped in pagan doctrines and customs. Oh, yes we can! Christ said, Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. There is only one righteous thing that you can do with these pagan holidays, and that is to repudiate them and have no part in them. The virgin birth of Christ is a blessed fact, but the Xmas celebration is a wicked and ungodly thing. Its plain to see, isnt it, that Christmas is a pagan holiday that came out of pagan Babylon. As born again believers, lets have nothing to do with it. Christmas is A Catholic Holiday. Why should a Christian steal Christmas from the Catholics? They got it from the pagans, and let them keep it if they want to. Notice what Encyclopedia Americana has to say about Christmas and Catholicism: Christmas-It was according to many authorities NOT celebrated in the first centuries of the Christian church as the Christian usage in general was to celebrate the death of a remarkable person rather than their birth. A feast was established in memory of the Saviour in the FOURTH CENTURY. In the Fifth Century the Western Church (Roman Catholic) ordered it to be celebrated forever on the day of the old Roman feast of the birth of Sol. The holly, the mistletoe, the yule log, and the wassail bowl are of pre-Christian times. The Christmas tree has been traced back to the Romans. It went from Germany to Great Britain. Encyclopedia Britannica has this to say about Christmas: Christmas (i.e., the Mass of Christ) was not among the earliest festivals of the church. Just take the word Christmas itself and break it down. What does it mean? The mass of Christ. The mass is a prayer thats read or sung for the soul of a dead person. Born-again Christians dont have anything to do with masses, and yet multitudes of professing Christians will say Merry Christmas, never realizing that when they do this they are actually mixing the precious and holy name of Christ with a demon holiday. The Lord tells us in unmistakable language that we are not to mix His name with any pagan holiday or with a pagan god. The Lord says in Ezekiel 20:39, .....pollute ye my holy name no more..... Christmas (let me repeat it) is a Roman Catholic holiday. We got it from the Catholics, and they got it from the pagans. It was on December 25 that the pagans of the Roman Empire celebrated the birthday of their sun god. After Constantine, the Roman emperor, won the battle of the Milvian Bridge, he forced all the pagans of his empire to be baptized into the Christian church. Thus, baptized pagans far outnumbered the true Christians. Since the church worshiped the Lord Jesus as the Son of God, when December 25 rolled around and the pagans wanted to worship Tammuz, their sun god, Constantine knew that he would have to do something. So he had the church combine the worship of Tammuz with the birthday of Christ, and a special mass was declared to keep everyone happy. Thus, pagan worship was brought into the Christian church and called Christ-mass. And yes, every time we say Merry Christmas, were actually mixing the precious and holy name of Christ with paganism! Comments welcome! And may God richly bless you and guide you!
Posted on: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 15:16:04 +0000
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