Christmas is a yearly holiday celebration in honor of the birth of Jesus Christ. The birthday of Christ is believed to be on December 25. Christmas is a Christian festival but not all Christians celebrate it. Only those members of the Roman Catholic Church, some of the Protestant Churches and other Born Again Christians celebrate Christmas. Members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Iglesia Ni Cristo do not celebrate Christmas because for them Christmas is a pagan festival.

Why Pagan Festival?

If you will dig up the history of Christmas, you’ll find out that Christmas couldn’t be traced to the time of the Apostles. The Catholic Encyclopedia admits:

Christmas was not among the earliest festivals of the Church. Irenaeus and Tertullian omit it from their lists of feasts; Origen, glancing perhaps at the discreditable imperial Natalitia, asserts (in Lev. Hom. viii in Migne, P.G., XII, 495) that in the Scriptures sinners alone, not saints, celebrate their birthday; Arnobius (VII, 32 in P.L., V, 1264) can still ridicule the “birthdays” of the gods. (source)

Christmas actually originated from a pagan Roman festival, Dies Natalis Solis Invicti.

Dies Natalis Solis Invicti means “Birthday of the Unconquered Sun God” and was celebrated yearly on December 25.

And just like what the Catholic Church did to the Filipino pagan festivals like Sinulog, Ati-atihan, Igorot “Tengao” Pagan festival, etc., the Roman Catholic Church simply adopted the Roman pagan festival “Dies Natalis Solis Invicti” and Christianized it in a way that instead of celebrating the birthday of the pagan God, Sun, Catholic Church celebrate the birthday of Christ.

Lies behind Christmas

Christmas is said to be the celebration of the Birthday of Christ. And the Roman Catholic Church teaches that Christ was born on December 25.

However, if you’ll examine the facts recorded on the Bible, you’ll realize that Christ was born not on December 25.

You can visit my posts: “Who Invented Christmas“, “When Did People Start Celebrating Christmas“, “Christmas, An Heretic-Invented Festival“…

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