Did Early Christians Celebrate Christmas

How christian is christmas editor s notebook it can be as disappointing as a child s discovery there really is no santa claus finding out the early church didn t celebrate christmas and had no interest in it.

Did early christians celebrate christmas. Origin of christmas traditions. The early church never celebrated christmas. Because of they being no part of the world they were severely persecuted especially by emperor. Perhaps it might be helpful to realize that catholics do admit that early christians did observe the feast of tabernacles.

The early christians did not celebrate jesus birth because they considered the celebration of anyone s birth to be a pagan custom the world book encyclopedia. In like manner pope leo the great rebuked the pestilent. Translated by eugene hoade. When a consensus arose in the church to celebrate christ s conception on march 25th it was reasonable to celebrate his birth nine months later.

Early christians did not kill nor partake in worldly pleasures. And early christians didn t celebrate christmas yet because it was not until santa inc had his initial public offering in 1823 that he had sufficient capital to fund his worldwide enterprise extending operations into the middle east. This stuff is not hard. Candles continued to be lit.

Jerome pl 25 1529 1536 7 speaking of how the judaeo christians celebrated the feast of tabernacles tells us that they gave the feast a millenarian significance bagatti bellarmino. Many of the pagan customs became associated with christmas. Why didn t the early christians celebrate the festival honouring the birth of jesus christ. In other words the early roman catholic church did not so much appropriate the trappings and customs of saturnalia as they simply stuck the flag of christmas right in the middle of the festival s perennial landscape changing the underlying religion while leaving the coveted pomp and circumstance intact.

The heathen origin of christmas is plainly hinted at if not tacitly admitted by augustine the fifth century catholic theologian when he exhorts his christian brethren not to celebrate that solemn day like the heathen on account of the sun but on account of him who made the sun. C mon people do a little research use a little reason. They did not for the same reason they honoured no other birthday or anniversary. The gospel writers didn t even bother to tell us the date of jesus birth.

They obeyed and followed the principles of christianity as modelled by jesus then his appostles but they paid their taxes and were very valuable worker in their communities.