By Sarah Ajokpaniovo
December 26, 2014 – December 25 is marked every year as Christmas and it comes with a lot of holidays and merriment.
Most Christians jump on to the band-wagon and join in the celebration without a hint of how it all began and what exactly it is meant to celebrate.
However, serious and true Christians do not celebrate it because Jesus did not at any time ask Christians or his disciples to celebrate it.
Of course, if it is very important, he would have celebrated it at least once in his 33 and half years of existence on earth but he never did. His disciples did not at any point celebrate it.
He was not even born in December not even to mention December 25. Of course December 25 is mentioned in the Bible at Jeremiah 52:31 but it had nothing to do with Christmas.
For the sake of emphasis, that place reads: “Now it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin, king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, that Evil-Merodac king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison”. Holy Bible, New King James Version.
December 25th was chosen by pagans to celebrate their sun god. “Birth of the new son”. So when many of the pagans felt they had become believers, they decided to adopt the date to celebrate Jesus as against forgetting about the festival completely. So, it was a pagan festival that was brought into Christianity.
Like un-serious Christians, the Israelites did the same thing when they adopted a pagan festival and fine-tuned it or labelled it a festival to God, but they were punished by God. Read Exodus 32:4-10: Here the Israelites adopted an Egyptian religious practice and gave it a new name “a festival to Jehovah”.
The fact that Christmas had pagan origin makes it detestable or untouchable for all true Christians, read Ephesians 5:10 &11.
