Think about it, what have reindeer, elves, decorated fir trees, Yule logs and Santa Claus have to do with the Bible? Nothing, nada, zip. But they have everything to do with Yule. This ancient Pagan holiday called Yule and it's counterpart "Christmas" are one and the same holiday.
Yule (December 25) was based on the birth of the sun.... To "Christianize" this favorite of all Pagan holidays, they changed it to "birth of the Son," called it "Christmas," and kept on keeping it just like they always had.
How did the Winter Solstice become a "Christian" holiday?
"...there's also a small disagreement about why the church later chose Dec. 25 for Christmas. Two main theories compete. One notes that in A.D. 274, the Roman Emperor Aurelian inaugurated Dec. 25 as the pagan "Birth of the Unconquered Sun"...Christians then borrowed the date and devised Christmas to compete with paganism."
"Christmas has its origins in several pagan holidays. The (Roman) celebration known as Saturnalia included the making and giving of small presents. This holiday was observed over a series of days...ending on December 25. (The birthday of Sol Invictus, the "unconquered sun")"When the first missionaries began converting the Germanic peoples to Christianity, they found it easier to simply provide a Christian reinterpretation for popular feasts such as Yule and allow the celebrations themselves to go on largely unchanged, rather than trying to suppress them." "The Scandinavian tradition of slaughtering a pig at Christmas (Christmas Ham) ...is probably the most salient evidence for this. The tradition derives from the sacrifice to the god Freyr at the Yule celebrations. Halloween and Easter are theorized to have been likewise assimilated from northern European pagan festivals." (They go back further than that!)
The presents the wise men brought the baby Messiah were brought because they were coming before a King. The Bible never suggests that we should keep a Roman style Saturnalia where everyone gave gifts to each other. Jesus Christ was and is a Jew and He never kept Christmas in His life, He never mentions it. He did ask us to keep a memorial of His death (Passover)...but never His birth.
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