Is Christmas pagan? And the answer is no. With the Christmas season underway, there's often a subculture within Christianity
that seeks to attack, question, and even demonize the celebration of the birth of Christ.
And this is often a result of people who are simply misinformed or other people who have a wicked agenda of
attacking Jesus Christ and his birth. But the question still remains, where does Christmas come from?
Does it have pagan roots? And what does the Bible have to say about it?
Christmas, of course, is a time of year that we, as Christians, take to think upon the greatest gift that has ever been given to mankind by our Maker.
That gift being, of course, Jesus Christ. It's a time that we spend time with family. We give gifts one to another in order to symbolize the gift of eternal life.
It's a time when we think upon the scriptures that really highlight the birth of Jesus Christ, where good tidings of great joy were brought unto all men.
It's simply a time when we think upon the birth of our Savior, when the word of God was made flesh.
Now with that being said, there is a subculture in Christianity that wants to demonize this celebration.
And here are some of the arguments that they have. They'll often say, why would you celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ on December 25th if he wasn't born on December 25th?
And the truth is, they actually might be right about that. You see, we don't really know when Jesus Christ was born.
And what we do know is that he was born. And so because we know that the Bible says that the word of God was made flesh, we know that he was born of a virgin.
We know that there is one day out of the year that he was born. There's actually a one in 365 chance that he was born on December 25th.
And so if someone wanted to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ on January 1st, on Easter Sunday, on the 4th of July, or on October 31st,
we would actually be justified in doing so because of the fact that there's a one in 365 chance that he might have been.
And the fact is, we as Christians don't believe that he was born on December 25th.
We just simply take December 25th as a day to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ because of the fact that he was born on a day.
Not only that, but they'll often say Christmas is a result of believers seeking to Christianize a pagan Roman holiday known as Saturnalia in the 4th century AD.
Saturnalia was a week-long festival that celebrated the sun god Sol Invictus, who they believed to be born on December 25th.
And the argument stands, why would we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ on a day that pagans have designated to their false god?
And the answer is simply this, because our God is better. Our God trumps Sol Invictus.
Our God trumps the sun god known as Saturn.
And in fact, the Bible states in Psalm 135, for I know that the Lord is great and that our Lord is above all gods.
You see, no Christian who actually believes the Bible believes that Sol Invictus was actually born on December 25th or any day for that reason.
Whereas we know that the Bible says that the word of God was made flesh and dwelt among us.
So there's actually a higher chance that Jesus Christ was born on December 25th than that Sol Invictus was born on any day.
So it's actually far more justifiable to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ on December 25th than for pagans to celebrate Sol Invictus on December 25th.
Because we know that he can't be born, because we know that demons and angels are incapable of being born into physical human bodies.
And so to say that we shouldn't celebrate Christmas because of the fact that pagan Romans designated that day to celebrate their false god
would mean that we shouldn't observe any day for that matter.
Because Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday were all days named after false gods by the Romans.
Now, the truth is, is that every day belongs unto the Lord.
Every day, every week, every month and every year belongs unto God.
And we actually have liberty to celebrate the birth of Christ or even the resurrection of Christ any day of the week if we want.
The Bible actually says in Romans 14 and verse number 5,
And it just so happens that Christians in general have designated December 25th to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.
We esteem that day as unto the Lord.
We regard it unto the Lord.
We don't regard Sol Invictus, we don't regard Saturnalia, we don't think upon pagan gods and false gods on December 25th.
What we actually do is we think upon the true God of the Bible, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
And so have fun this Christmas season as you spend time with your family, as you feast, as you fellowship,
and as you reflect and think upon the greatest gift that God has ever given to us, which is eternal life through Jesus Christ.
Merry Christmas!