I have made this new page to help answer your Bible questions you might have. Some times we feel that God has left us behind and need some answers form God’s Word.
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Our next Question is .
“How can I be sure that I am going to Heaven?”
If you click on the PDF file below their is a Prayer with a Bible study that will help you answer this Question.
Our next Question is”Why Do Celebrate Christmas on December 25″
Our first Heading is “Christmas’s Pagan Origins
Few people realize that the origins of a form of Christmas was pagan & celebrated in Europe long before anyone there had heard of Jesus Christ.
No one knows what day Jesus Christ was born on.From the biblical description, most historians believe that his birth probably occurred in September, approximately six months after Passover. One thing they agree on is that it is very unlikely that Jesus was born in December, since the bible records shepherds tending sheep in the field on that night. This is Quite unlikely to have happened during a cold Judean winter. So why do we celebrate Christ’s birthday as Christmas, on December 25th?
The answer lies in the pagan origins of Christmas. In ancient Babylon, the feast of the Son of Isis (Goddess of Nature) was celebrated on December 25. Raucous parting, gluttonous eating and drinking,and gift-giving were traditions of this feast.
In Rome, the Winter Solstice celebrated many years before the Birth of Christ. The Romans called their winter holiday Saturnalia, Honoring Saturn, the God of Agriculture.. In January, they observed the Kalends of January, which represented the triumph of life over death. This whole season was called Dies Natalis Solis, The Birthday of the Unconquered Sun.The festival season was marked by much merrymaking. It is the ancient Rome that the tradition of the Mummers was born. The Mummers were groups of costumed singers and dancers who traveled from house to house entertaining their neighbors. From this, the Christmas tradition of caroling was born.
In northern Europe, many other traditions that we now consider part of Christian worship were began long before the participant had ever heard of Christ. The pagans of northern Europe celebrated t their own winter solstice , known as Yule. Yule was symbolic of the pagan Sun God, Mithras, being born,and was observed on the shortest day of the year.As the Sun God grew and matured, the days became longer and warmer. It was customary to light a candle to encourage Mithras, and the sun, to reappear next year.
Huge Yule logs were burned to honor of the sun. The word Yule itself means”wheel,” the wheel being a pagan symbol for the sun. Mistletoe was considered a sacred plant, and the custom of kissing under the mistletoe begin as a fertility ritual . Holly berries were though to be food of the gods.
The tree is the one Symbol that unites almost all northern European winter solstices. Live evergreen trees were often brought into homes during the harsh winter as a reminder to inhabitants that soon their crops would grow again. Evergreen boughs were sometimes carried as totems of good luck and were often present at weddings, representing fertility. The druids used the tree as a religious symbol,holding their sacred ceremonies while surrounding and worshiping huge trees.
In the year 350, Pope Julius 1 declared that Christ’s birth day would be celebrated on December 25. There is little doubt that he was trying to make it as painless as possible for pagan Romans( who remained a majority at that time) to convert to Christianity. The new religion went down a bit easier, knowing that their feasts would not be taken away from them.
Christmas (Christ-Mass) as we know it today, most historians agree, began in Germany, though Catholics and Lutherans still disagree about which celebrated it first. The earliest record of an evergreen being decorated in a Christian celebrated was in 1521 in the Alsace region of Germany. A prominent Lutheran minister of the day cried blasphemy: “Better that they should look to a true tree of life, Christ.
The controversy continues even today in some fundamentalist sects.
