The TRUTH about CHRISTMAS!

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The FACTS which may shock you!

Does Christmas really celebrate the birthday of Jesus? Was He born on
December 25th? Did Paul, the apostles, and the early Church of the
New Testament celebrate Christmas?

Stop and think! Very few know WHY we do the things we do, or WHERE
our customs came from! We were born into a world filled with customs.
We grew up practicing them, taking them for granted, but NEVER
QUESTIONING WHY!

A PAGAN, Not Christian Festival

We have supposed CHRISTMAS to be the chief of the Christian holidays.
Without asking questions, we have blindly assumed its observance must
be one of the commands of the New Testament.
We have supposed Jesus was born December 25th, and the New Testament
set this day aside as the chief Christian festival.

But, let�s quit supposing, and look into history and the Bible for
the FACTS!

The word "Christmas" means "Mass of Christ" or, as it later became
shortened. "Christ-Mass. " It came to us as a Roman Catholic mass. And
where did thy get it? From the HEATHEN celebration of December 25th,
as the birthday of Sol the SUN-GOD!
It is, actually, an ancient rite of BAALISM, which the Bible condemns
as the most abominable of all idolatrous worship!

It is not so much as MENTIONED anywhere in the New Testament.

The simple truth is, Christmas is NOT Christ� s birthday at all! And
this festival, important as it seems to so many, is not of Christian,
but of pagan - Babylonish - origin!

Jesus NOT Born December 25th

Any encyclopedia, or any other authority, will tell you that Christ
was not born on December 25. The Catholic Encyclopedia frankly states
this fact.

The exact date of Jesus� birth is entirely UNKNOWN, as all
authorities acknowledge.

What Encyclopedia Say

There is not one word in the New Testament, or anywhere in the Bible,
telling us to observe Christmas.

Then where did we get "Christmas"? Since it has to come to us thru
the Roman Catholic Church, and has no authority but that of the Roman
Catholic Church, let us examine the Catholic Encyclopedia, published
by that Church. Under the caption "Christmas," you will find:

"Christmas was not among the earliest festivals of the Church ...The
first evidence of the feast is from Egypt." "Pagan customs centering
around the January calends gravitated to Christmas." And, further, we
find this truth acknowledged: " ...in the Scripture, sinners alone,
not saints, celebrate their birthday.

Encyclopedia Britannica has this: "Christmas (i.e. the Mass of
Christ). Christmas was not among the earliest festivals of the
church ...." It was not instituted by Christ or the apostles, or by
Bible authority - it was picked up afterward from paganism.

Remember, the Roman world had been PAGAN. Prior to the fourth
century, Christians were few in number, tho increasing, and were
persecuted by the government and by pagans. But, with the advent of
Constantine as emperor, who made his profession of Christianity, in
the fourth century, placing Christianity on an equal footing with
paganism, people of the Roman world began to accept this now popular
Christianity by the hundreds of thousands.

But remember, these people had grown up in PAGAN customs, chief of
which was this idolatrous festival of December 25th. It was a
festival of merry-making, with is special SPIRIT. They ENJOYED it!
They didn� t want to give it up! The recognition by Constantine, of
Sunday, which had been the day of pagan SUN-worship, which identified
the SON of God with the physical SUN, gave these pagans turning over
to "Christianity" , their EXCUSE for calling their pagan-festival date
of December 25th (birthday of the SUN-god).