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Christmas - What You Need to Know

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I hope the attached article will help our beloved Christian brothers and sisters to be more aware of Christmas.

What You Need To Know About Christmas​

Most people dismiss the commercialism, the pagan influence, or the impossibility of a December 25 birth, and take comfort in slogans such as “Put Christ back in Christmas.” But, would true Christians feel comfortable celebrating Christmas if they understood that you cannot “Put Christ back in Christmas” because Christmas is founded upon Satan worship?

This is no new understanding! But the churches of the world hide or ignore this truth! The Catholic Encyclopedia reveals: "Christmas was not among the earliest festivals of the Church. Irenaeus and Tertullian omit it from their lists of feasts…” (vol. 3, pp. 724, 728). Christmas was even briefly outlawed in Massachusetts in 1659 and in England in the mid 1600s as being unbiblical.

Understand. Before Christmas was the Roman Saturnalia, upon which Christmas is founded. Tertullian, considered an early Catholic church father, wrote that during the Saturnalia, presents were exchanged and “every pomp of the devil is frequented” (On Idolatry, circa 200 – 206 A.D.).

But the Saturnalia was also simply an adaptation of something earlier –
Persian Mithraism. As the Catholic Encyclopedia records: “In Mithraism, the highest god was Aion, Kronos, or Saturnus. Saturnus, the name popularized by the Roman world, was no other than the ancient Iranian [Persian] god, Zervan” (Mithraism).

The Romans eagerly adopted Mithraism in the form of the Saturnalia. Emperor Diocletian built a temple to Mithra in Carnuntum, and “The 25 December was observed as his birthday, the natalis invicti, the rebirth of the winter-sun” (ibid).

In Mithraism, the mid-winter festivals began with worship of Zervan, whose celebrations ended on December 24. The celebrations then transitioned to worship the reborn Zervan as the newborn Mithras, the new Saturn, born on December 25 who brought back the sun after the winter-solstice (Mithras, the Secret God, M.J. Vermaseren).

The pagan god Zervan was depicted as a winged, part-human, part-lion figure. Thus, we see that Zervan depicts angelic cherubim characteristics (2 Chronicles 3:13; Ezekiel 10:14). Further, Zervan was typically accompanied by snakes wrapped around his legs, arms or body (The Mysteries of Mithra, by Franz Cumont, 1903, page 93). Scripture reveals that Satan (formerly Lucifer) is a fallen cherub (Ezekiel 28:14-16), and is associated with the snake (Genesis 3:1-14; Revelation 20:2).

A righteous angel will not permit himself to be worshipped (Revelation 19:10; 22:9). And Revelation 9:20 warns that idolaters are actually worshipping demons. Clearly, the cherub who demands his worship at the winter-solstice is no righteous angel. Whether calling himself Zervan, Saturn or another eponym, this deity is a proxy for no other than Satan, the fallen cherub!
But even the Roman Saturnalia and Persian Mithraism were adaptions of an even earlier mystery religion – the Babylonian mystery cult. The ancient Babylonians celebrated the reborn Nimrod as the newborn Tammuz by worshipping an evergreen tree (now the common Christmas tree).

The Babylonians also celebrated this rebirth during the winter solstice. Jeremiah condemns ancient Israel for copying this terrible paganism, and even specifically mentions the decorated evergreen tree in Jeremiah 3:13.

Regardless of fond memories or whether “everyone does it,” a true Christian will reject Christmas, not only because of the commercialism, the pagan influence, and the impossibility of Jesus being born mid-winter, but more fundamentally because Christ refuses to have any part with idolatry (2 Corinthians 6:15-16). Christ was never part of Christmas and He will not be “put back” in Christmas.

God commands us to “learn not the way of the heathen” (Jeremiah 10:2, KJV), reveals that pagan celebrations are abominations to Him (Jeremiah 10:3-4; Ezekiel 8:13-14), and tells us not to change what was taught through Christ and the Apostles (2 Thessalonians 2:15). Once this truth is understood, a true Christian will shudder at the idea of celebrating Christmas, realizing that these winter solstice celebrations are indeed Satan’s celebrations.
 

IR123

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quite tiresome is it not?

on the one hand, those who believe in fantasies

on the other, those who are the masters of theology

but the truth is, most of the problems today are caused by men, women and their greed, lust and selfishness
 

theblackhole

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believe what you want or don't believe what you want....at the end of the day..please strive to do good and avoid doing evil...have a clean,clear and kind heart...and that really matters....merry christmas....peace to all...hallelujah! ornitufu;-)
 

tanwahtiu

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Whatever it is, human experiences are based on trials and errors. One era there is war, next era there is peace. One day, there is this God and next day there is not or got replaced. So many Gods and Saturns comes and go until who and what to believes?

One thing for sure, people says Christianity destroy polygamy. And men are fucked to have only one wife because of Christian religion. Abraham and Mosses are polygamy and their God allows it and when it come to Paul he destoryed it. So was Paul a henpack husband or Ah Qua?
 

mathewho

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ok what you said it's wrong is not like this said ok make it simple.actually for us christian we just make this day as the mutual day to remember his birth and not what you said what satan worship that's wrong i think you should read one of the chapter in the bible this tell us why we celebrate Christmas without this chapter we will not celebrate i think you should read 1 Timothy 3:16.and go and read it and do read also the new testament of Matthew then you know why we celebrate Christmas and you also know what is the meaning of christmas we christian don't suka suka celebrate want!! we will celebrate with the festival that what did the bible said(with available reason and meaningful) .so please don't anyhow spread all this thing!! :wink: do you understand now?gentlemen/ladies.
 
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IR123

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ok what you said it's wrong is not like this said ok make it simple.actually for us christian we just make this day as the mutual day to remember his birth and not what you said what satan worship that's wrong i think you should read one of the chapter in the bible this tell us why we celebrate Christmas without this chapter we will not celebrate i think you should read 1 Timothy 3:16.and go and read it and do read also the new testament of Matthew then you know why we celebrate Christmas and you also know what is the meaning of christmas we christian don't suka suka celebrate want!! we will celebrate with the festival that what did the bible said(with available reason and meaningful) .so please don't anyhow spread all this thing!! :wink: do you understand now?gentlemen/ladies.

i do not understand you

please consider using only one sentence per thought

it will make for easier understanding
 

IR123

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Whatever it is, human experiences are based on trials and errors. One era there is war, next era there is peace. One day, there is this God and next day there is not or got replaced. So many Gods and Saturns comes and go until who and what to believes?

One thing for sure, people says Christianity destroy polygamy. And men are fucked to have only one wife because of Christian religion. Abraham and Mosses are polygamy and their God allows it and when it come to Paul he destoryed it. So was Paul a henpack husband or Ah Qua?


i disagree

the abrahamic religion has been in place for 5,000 years

due to its closed environment, it is one of very few religions that are most true to its original source
 

tanwahtiu

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i disagree

the abrahamic religion has been in place for 5,000 years

due to its closed environment, it is one of very few religions that are most true to its original source
what is it that you disagree?

abrahamic religion? Si mi lai eh!

Did you check out the meaning of the word 'religion' which comes from the greek word religo.

What is the orginal source?

Bible was written over a period of 1,500 years, not 1,500 years ago. Over this period the Bible went through additions, subtractions, edits, cuts and pastes and only in late 20th Century somebody out a stop to this corrupted changes and modifications in the Bible and name it 'Word of God'. So therefore God and his 'Words' was only recent when God (as you say) goes back 5,000 years????

Only in the late 20th Century, Bible is only avaible to mass of people to read. Before that Bible can only be read to you by the so call God's administrators (Pastors, Priests) in churches. So what changes were made over 1,5000 years can be found in this site: http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/
 
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