Is Christmas Pagan Worship

It is not the tree or december 25th that we as christians worship at christmas it is jesus christ our lord.

Is christmas pagan worship. These are not bad things unless we revert to pagan practices associated with christmas to worship other gods. Christmas is celebrated by christians around the world. The christians didn t want to participate in that and so they said while everybody else is celebrating this pagan thing we re going to have our. The pagans celebrated their festival on december 25.

But did it come from the bible or ancient paganism. Christmas is a multicultural multi religious festival. Most of the people that call themselves christians except christmas as the day jesus was born without doing any research or referring to the bible to see if. Santa is a questionable icon and i have often struggled with it.

Christmas is for pagan worship not for christians the bible tells us the devil has deceived the whole world and one of his dominating deceptions comes through the celebrating of christmas. Pagan is a term describing belief and worship of multiple gods. It just so happens that on the twenty fifth of december in the roman empire there was a pagan holiday that was linked to mystery religions. Christianity christmas history paganism polytheism sun worship.

Pagan origins of christmas sun worship the pegan origins of christmas can be traced back to the commemoration of the winter solstice celebrated in europe on or around december 22nd. Does that mean the church should discard it along with its lights tinsel and increasing. If it is pagan should you still celebrate it. We worship god on the day that is set aside as christmas.

Is christmas a pagan holiday. Prior to england becoming a nation the caucasian or anglo saxon used the word geol derived from the word yule or phrase yuletide season to. The ancient world was full of paganism. Other christians have made cases for the december christmas as well.

Ultimately we can t know exactly when he was born. To clarify some points though neither we nor other christians worship a pagan holiday or any holiday. Dr eli the question whether or not christmas is pagan could be simply answered by jeremiah 10 1 5 8 14 where clearly the most high is speaking to israel through jeremiah the prophet about a custom israel had picked up in. Was the event we now call christmas originally a pagan holiday.

But i have to think of the movie santa clause with tim allen the kindness and warmth he brings to the santa claus character brings to my mind jesus and who god really.