The celebration of Christmas was not instituted by Christ or by the first apostles, neither can it be found in the Bible. It is also a common fact among many Bible scholars that Jesus was not born on December 25th but probably either late summer or early autumn, around the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles. So, then, who started this celebration we call Christmas, and why on December 25th?
It was officially started by the Catholic Church around the beginning of the fourth century. First, though, let us go back to 313 AD, to when a Roman pagan Emperor, Constantine, legalized Christianity for the first time. He instituted a plan to absorb the followers of Jesus into the mainstream of Roman society. He developed a new religious system that even the most committed sun god worshippers could welcome (Rome at this time was the center of pagan sun god worship). This religious system is what today we call the Roman Catholic Church. He fabricated “another Jesus”, a pagan-ized messiah, who would be completely acceptable to the pagans. He also incorporated all of the customs of pagan sun god worship into this new religion.
So it was, at the beginning of the 4th century, when this same Roman Catholic Church decided to pick a day to celebrate the birth of Jesus, they would pick December 25th, which was always celebrated before as the birth of the pagan sun god.
Even the cutting down of evergreen trees and decorating them with silver and gold was a pagan custom of worship to their gods. The Lord God forbid His people to participate in this, as it says in Jeremiah: “This says the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen…for the customs of the people are vain: for they cut a tree out of the forest…they deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammer, that it move not” (Jeremiah 10:2-4).
According to American history, the early Pilgrims did not allow the celebration of Christmas because they knew it was a pagan holiday. It was the American merchants that really pushed and sold the celebration of Christmas into what it has become today, because of the huge profits it would bring to them.
The book of Revelation talks about a harlot Church system called “Babylon the Great, The Mother of Harlots”. Revelation 18:3 says that the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through (her). Then verse 4 tells us to “Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins”.
“And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? for you are the temple of the living God:…wherefore come out from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you” (2 Cor. 6:16-17).
So, in conclusion, if people really want to celebrate the end of the year, and even would like to give gifts to others, why do they need to celebrate the birth day of a pagan sun god, and call it the birth of Jesus, to do so?
Yours in Christ,
Randy Reaux
sources: Christmas Unwrapped: the History of Christmas – History Channel documentary The Pagan Christian Connection Exposed – by Michael Rood