Should Christians celebrate Christmas? To many believers, it sounds sacrilegious to even mention the idea of not celebrating Christmas. For so many people, Christmas is a symbol of their faith. This teaching goes into great detail about the origins of Christmas and also what the scriptures say about it.
Remember that Satan is the father of lies, and has been deceiving people from the beginning. He is a master of deceit, and so we need to be very careful to seek the truth, and not be deceived. The best way to deceive someone is to make it sound like truth by mixing bits of truth into the lie. You might be shocked when you find out the Truth about Christmas, but remember that the Truth will set you free.
Growing up, Christmas was my favorite time of year. I loved everything about it. The decorations, the food, the family, the gifts; it was all so beautiful and exciting for me as a child. My love for Christmas continued into adulthood. Every year I looked forward to setting up the tree, hanging lights on the house, and buying gifts for family and friends. We were so excited about Christmas that we would start decorating at the beginning of November, and leave the decorations up until the end of January (sometimes even into February). Christmas was my absolute favorite holiday, and one of the main reasons for this was because I thought it was a celebration of Jesus birth.
You see, I have been a Christian all of my life, and I have always loved God. I have always wanted to do what was right, and do what pleased God. I thought that celebrating Christmas was something that was pleasing to God, and that, more than anything else, is why I loved Christmas so much.
Then one day, Truth came knocking on my door. Someone told me that Christmas was originally a Pagan holiday, and that it was just adopted into Church tradition hundreds of years after Jesus died. This was strange news to me, because I grew up thinking that Christmas was celebrated from the beginning of the Church, and that it was a holiday that God gave us. I couldn’t have been more wrong.
I wanted to find out the Truth about Christmas, so I started doing my own research, and was shocked at the things that I found out. I was so disgusted and shocked at the Pagan origins of some of our traditions that I began to weep and repent for my involvement in these things. I felt so deceived, and the thing that made this deceit so bad was that it came from people I trusted, family, friends, and especially the Church (who should have known better).
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