Pagan Roots of Christmas Resources

I am going through all my booklets I have on the topic so you can read my resources. If you want to write an article or book on the topic please feel free to use as you like.

Rough Notes PTAC

who was born on December 25th?
- did the Apostles or the first century Congregation celebrate Christmas?
- what does the Bible say about Christmas trees?
- few people know where Christmas customs come from?
- people are just born with these customs already existing & don’t ever question them.
- Most people assume that these customs to be chief observances of the true Congregation of YHWH
- Assume that these customs were celebrated by the first century Congregation and the foundation of the true faith.
- Assume Yeshua (Jesus) was born on December 25th
- assume we exchange gifts because the wise men presented gifts to child Yeshua (Jesus)
- Christmas means "Mass of Christ" which came to us from the Catholic Church
- Catholic Church got the customs of Christmas from the Heathen celebration Sol the Sun God
- these customs came from Baalism which the Bible condemns as the most abominable of all idolatrous worship
- Christmas is never observed by the Apostles nor the first century Congregation
- it is one of the fables that Apostle Paul talked about in 2 Tim 4:4 that would deceive the world in the latter days
- Christmas is of Pagan Babylonish origin
- Yeshua (Jesus) not born on December 25th not even in the winter – "there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night" Luke 2:8
- Shepherds could not be abiding in the fields nor could their flock be in the field in December in Palestine
- the flocks would not be in fields in winter but no later than October 15th would be corralled and brought out of the cold rainy season and put in stalls
- scriptural proof winter was a rainy season not allowing shepherds to abide in the fields: Song of Solomon 2:11, Ezra 10:9, 13
- It was an ancient custom among Jews of the day to send out their sheep to the fields and deserts about the Passover (early-spring),
and bring them home at commencement of the first rain, says the Adam Clarke Commentary Vol 5., page 386
- this authority also states, "during the time they were out, the shepherds watched them night and day, As … the first rain began early in the month of Marchesvan, which answers to part of our October and November [begins mid October], we find that the sheep were kept out in the open country during the whole summer. And, as these shepherds had not yet brought home their flocks , it is presumptive argument that October had not yet commenced, and that, consequently, Our Lord, was not born on the 25th of December, when no flocks were in the fields; nor could He have been born later than September, as the flocks were still in the fields by night. On this very ground, the nativity in December should be given up. The feeding of the flocks by night in the fields is a chronological fact." – see quotations from the Talmudist in Lightfoot
- Catholic Encyclopedia states Yeshua (Jesus) was not born on December 25th
- Yeshua’s (Jesus’) date of birth is unknown
- Scriptures indicate mostlikelyhood Yeshua (Jesus) was born in early fall probably September.
- If YHWH wanted us to observe Yeshua’s (Jesus’) birthday He would not so completely hidden the exact date
- not one word in New Testament or Old Testament telling us to observe Christmas  The Apostles nor the first century Congregation never observed
Christmas no bible authority for its observance
- Catholic Encyclopedia under caption of "Christmas" says "Christmas as not among the earliest festivals of the Church … The first evidence of the feast is from Egypt"
- continued: "Pagan customs centering around the January calends gravitated to Christmas." "...in the scriptures, sinners alone, not aints, celebrated their birthday."
- From Encyclopedia Britannica "Christmas (i.e., the Mass of Christ) Christmas was not among the earliest festivals of the church…"
- From Encyclopedia Britannica "Christmas It was, according to many authorities, not celebrated in the first centuries of the Christian church, as the Christian usage in general was to celebrate the death of remarkable persons rather than their birth…" "a feast was established in memory of this event [Christ’s birth] in the fourth century. In the fifth century the Western Church ordered it to be
celebrated forever on the day of the old Roman feast of the birth of Sol, as no certain knowledge of the day of Christ’s birth existed."
- Roman Church ordered Christmas observance in fifth century
- Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia states in article on Christmas, How much the date of the festival depended upon the Pagan Brumalia (Dec. 25) following the Saturnalia (Dec. 17-24), and celebrating the shortest day of the year and the "new sun" ...
cannot be accurately determined. The pagan Saturnalia and Brumalia were too deeply entrenched in popular custom to be set aside by Christian influence… The pagan festival with its riot and berrymaking was so popular that Christians were glad of an excuse to continue its celebration with little change in spirit and
in manner.  Christian preachers of the West and the Near East protested against the unseemly fivolity with which Christ’s birthday was celebrated, while Christians of Mesopotamia accused their western brethren of idolatry and sun-worship for adopting as Christian this pagan festival."
- Constantine made Christianity the state religion of the Roman Empire in fourth century
- Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia also explains how Constantine recognized Sunday as the new Christian sabbath which was formerly Sunday day of Sun Worship and how influence of pagan Manichaeism which identified the Son of God with the physical Sun hence calling December 25th birthday of the Son of God
(birthday of the Sun-god)
- no matter what we call Christmas is still the sun-worshipping festival
- from Encyclopedia Britannica "Certain Latins, as early as 354, may have transferred the birthday from January 6th to December 25, which was then a Mithraic feast, ...or birthday of the unconquered Sun … The Syrians and Armenians, who clung to January 6th, accused the Romans of Sun worship and Idolatry, contending that the feast of December 25th, had been invented by disciples of Cerinthus…" We got Christmas from Roman Catholics, they got it from
paganism, where did it originally come from?
- it is chief custom of corrupt system denounced in Bible prophecies and teachings under the name of Babylon which derived from Nimrod
- Nimrod, grandson of Ham, son of Noah, real founder of Babylonish corrupt worship system.
- a system of organized competition, man-ruled governments and empires, based on competitive and profit-making economic system
- Gen 10:6, 8-12 records the story of Nimrod and the building of the power of Babel, the original Babylon, Nineveh, and many other cities and created the first world kingdom.
- Nimrod in Hebrew means "He Rebelled"
- Nimrod started the the great organized worldly apostacy from YHWH which has dominated the world until now sifted through all the ruling kingdoms
- Nimrod married his own mother named Semiramis.
- After Nimrods death his mother-wife propagated the doctrine of the survival of Nimrod as a spirit being
- She claimed a full-grown evergreen tree sprang over night from a dead tree stump which symbolized Nimrod being resurrected from the dead
- on the anniversary of Nimrod’s birth Semiramis claimed Nimrod would visit the evergreen tree and leave gifts upon it.
- December 25th was the birthday of Nimrod
- this is the real origin of the Christmas tree
- through scheming Semiramis became "Queen of Heaven" and Nimrod under various names became the "divine son of Heaven"
- as generations went by Nimrod became the false Messiah the son of Saal the Sun-god
- this false babylonish system – Mother and Child – Semiramis and Nimrod reborn became chief objects of worship
- The "Mother and Child" false babylonish system spread throughout the world under different names
- in Egypt – Iris and Osiris – in Asia – Cybele and Deoius – in Rome – Fortuna and Jupiterpuer – in Greece, China, Japan, Tibet are found counterparts of the original Madonna (Mother and child false babylonish system
Rome was pagan before Christianity so the Roman pagans during the fourth and fifth centuries were converting to Christianity by the hundreds of thousands because they could observe their old pagan customs in Christianity as Christianity adopted them changing their names to Christian sounding names.
it was the habit of Christianity to overtake and rename certain forms of paganism and assimilate it into Christianity
- we just never questioned whether these customs came from the Bible or from pagan idolatry
- this babylonish pagan idolatrous worship system Satan has used for centuries to deceive the world
- in Egypt was always believed the son of Iris (Queen of Heaven) was born on December 25th and paganism celebrated this famous birthday over most of the known world for centuries before the birth of Yeshua (Jesus)
- The Apostles did not celebrate this famous birthday, Yeshua (Jesus) was not born on December 25th, there is no command in the Bible to celebrate it, and the celebrating of birthdays is Heathen custom
- no where in the Bible does it command us to worship Mother and Child, the Apostles did not worship this Mother and Child
- Sure Miriam (Mary) is written in the scriptures Luke 1:28, 42, 48 but no where is it commanded that we worship Miriam (Mary)
- No where in Scripture is Miriam (Mary) commanded to be worshipped, deified, made a divine being.
- erroneous doctrines about Miriam includes worshipping her as Mother of God, doctrine of Immaculate conception, her as an intercessor between God and Man,
- the deified Miriam (Mary) originated from Semiramis the Queen of Heaven the wife/mother of Nimrod
- this Chaldean Mystery founded by wife of Nimrod was handed down to Christianity renamed Christmas
- how did we get Holly Wreath, Mistletoe, and Yule Log – was used at festival of Winter Solstice because was considered sacred to the Sun because of its miraculous healing power
- kissing under the mistletoe was an early step in the night of revelry and drunken debauchery
- celebrating the death of the old sun and the birth of the new sun at the Winter Solstice
- Mistletoe, sacred in pagan festivals is a parasite
- Holly berries were also sacred to the Sun-god
- The Yule log is Sun log – Yule means wheel and is a pagan symbol for the Sun this is the origin of the so called sacred Yuletide season
- The Americanna writes, "The holly, the mistletoe, the Yule log … are relics of pre-Christian times"
- Paganism the book, Answers to Questions by Frederick J Haskins writes, "The use of Christmas wreaths is believed by authorities to be traceable to the pagan customs of decorating buildings and places of worship at the feast which took place at the same time as Christmas. The Christmas Tree is from Egypt and its origin dates from a period long anterior to the Christmas era."
- What about Santa Claus? – the name Santa Claus is a corruption of the name St Nicholas, a Roman Catholic bishop from 5th century
- Encyclopedia Britannica Vol 19 11th edition pages 648-9 writes, "St Nicholas, bishop of Myra … a saint honored by the Greeks and Latins on the sixth of December … A legend of his surreptitious bestowal of dowries on the three daughters of an impoverished citizen… is said to have originated the old custom of giving presents in secret. If the eve of St Nicholas [Dec 6] subsequently transferred to Christmas day. Hence the association of Christmas with
Santa Claus…"
- throughout the year parents punish their kids for telling falsehoods but at Christmas they themselves tell their children the Santa Claus lie
- Is it Biblical to teach your children Myths and Falsehoods?
- may seem right to man but here is what Bible says: Pr 14:12 – There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death. Pr 16:25 – There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.
- Old Nick is a term for the devil and Satan appears as an angel of light so says scripture – 2Co 11:14 – And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
- What the Bible says about the Christmas Tree – Jeremiah 10:1 Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, P house of Israel: 2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. 3 For the customs of the people are vain:
for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. 4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. 5 They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good. 6 Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in
might.
- We are told not to learn the way of the Heathen and this scripture describes what YHWH views as Idolatry
- is exchanging gifts Biblical? – Christmas Shopping Season – Bibliotheca Sacra, Vol 12 pages 153-155 writes, "The Interchange of presents between friends is alike characteristic of Christmas and the Saturnalia, and must have been adopted by Christians from the Pagans, as the admonition of Tertullian plainly shows."
- exchanging gifts does not honor Yeshua’s (Jesus’) birthday or honor him. how does exchanging gifts and ignoring the persons who’s birthday it is honor that person?
- People honor a birth date that is not Yeshua’s (Jesus’) scrape together every dime they can buying presents to trade back and forth but do people give gifts to Yeshua and his cause?
- consider this scripture – Matthew 2: 1 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, 2 Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him. 3 When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. 4 And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born. 5 And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet, 6 And thou Bethlehem,
in the land of Judah, art not the least among the princes of Judah: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel. 7 Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise men, enquired of them diligently what time the star appeared. 8 And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently for the young child; and when ye have found him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also. 9 When they had heard the king, they departed;
and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was. 10 When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy. 11 And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh. – did they present gifts because it was his birthday? They did not come on his birthday it took many days actually 2 years
(Matthew 2:16) it took the wise men to get there. The wise men presented gifts to the Yeshua (Jesus) child not baby and did not exchange gifts amongst themselves.
- Adam Clarke Commentary Vol 5, page 46 writes, "Verse 11, (They presented unto him gifts). the people of the east never approach the presence of kings and great personages, without a present in their hands. The custom is often noticed in the Old Testament, and still prevails in the east and in some of the newly discovered South Sea Islands." They were not instituting the custom of exchanging gifts for Christmas but rather following an old eastern custom to
present gifts to a King.
- Christmas is part of the Idolatrous Babylonish Worship System that YHWH calls his people out of. Read Revelation 17-18:4
- The Christmas Spirit is created annually to sell Merchandise