Hard Hitting Facts:

-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.
-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.
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 embedded in Rome.
These reformers left Christmas intact.
Outlawed:
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. Sanctioned:
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.
Copyright 2002
" . . . it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile."- Romans 1:16, NIV
Personal Note:
You may think I am some fanatic about Christmas, and maybe I appear that way, but to me it is a stepping stone. Christmas, Easter, I celebrated these holidays for 27 years of my life really thinking they were meaningful, using them as a way to worship God. Once I knew the truth about these pagan festivals I really felt like my heart was open to learn. I was pretty much raised in the church, went on many mission trips with YWAM and the local church. I was a camp counselor for 10+years. I had many spiritual experiences and I believed I was looked up to as someone who maybe knew what she was talking about, at least some of the time. :)
I am still sifting through all that experience, trying to find Biblical basis for some of it. I have been somewhat disappointed in what I am finding out about that in relation to scripture. I am not against the church, I would love it if they welcomed all the scriptures as relevant and didn't just pick and choose.
My question to you is this, are you open? Can you deal with the fact that maybe you, the church, your friends, your ideals have been wrong? It's something to think about, and a hard question to answer I know. I am interested in your thoughts.
Shalom~