Is Christmas the Celebration of a Pagan Holiday?

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Welcome to The Rapid Bull, Daily Edition, where we provide a quick Biblical interpretations and applications.

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This is a ministry of striving for eternity. So yesterday we started to look at the question of, is celebrating

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Christmas sinful? And we acknowledge that Jesus was not born on December 25th, that was just a date that was chosen to celebrate the birth of Christ.

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It was a pagan holiday, however, nobody knows what that holiday is anymore unless they have an issue with worshipping of Jesus on December 25th.

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In other words, that pagan holiday is pretty much erased from history.

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No one is celebrating it. So when you have people that make the claim that because that date was previously a pagan holiday, then if you're celebrating

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Christmas on December 25th, you're celebrating the pagan holiday, that actually is an invalid argument because the person doesn't know anything about that holiday, so they're not really worshipping the pagan holiday nor paganism.

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That is one of the arguments you end up hearing people make when it comes to those who choose to celebrate

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Christmas. Now, do I celebrate Christmas? I'm one of these people that kind of care less.

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I didn't grow up celebrating Christmas, there's no nostalgia for me with it.

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My nostalgia would be that everyone should have a menorah in their house and celebrate

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Hanukkah. Well, that's not the case for everyone, right? So there is an element of this that there is nostalgia and tradition and memories and family and it has nothing to do with any pagan holidays.

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We're going to dig into this a little bit more tomorrow. This podcast is part of the Striving for Eternity ministry.

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