There is no good reason to believe that Christ was born on December 25th.  The speculation in early Christian writings about Christ being born on December 25th stems from the strange belief that a holy person dies on the day of the year in which they were conceived.  That logic in itself is superstitious, unwarranted, and foreign to the Bible.  

The Bible gives no command to celebrate the birth of Christ at all.  Scriptures such as Titus 2:11-14 demonstrate that we are commanded to honor Christ’s first coming by cooperating with His goal in His incarnation of preparing a set apart people to claim for Himself when He comes again.

Even most people who admittedly reject Jesus Christ celebrate some form of Christmas- and there is no good reason to believe that the day isn’t more fitting for them to celebrate than it is for those who seek to be faithful Christians.

You do not need a significant amount of spiritual discernment to see that a hyped-up, ardent Christmas supporter who puts up a Christmas tree, Christmas ornaments, hangs wreaths, hangs mistletoe, wears a Santa hat, wears elf clothes, puts up a giant light display, etc. is not behaving like an authentic, consistent Christian. 

Many in early America recognized or suspected Christmas’ Pagan origins and did not see it as a proper celebration of Christ’s birth.  Christmas was not even made an official holiday in any state until Alabama made it one in 1836.  Christmas never even became a federal holiday in the USA until 1870. 

The Bible has much to say about making sure to keep Paganism and all covetousness out of God’s worship (see Deuteronomy 12:28-32 and 2 Corinthians 6:14-18).  Those who celebrate Christmas aren’t being as careful as they ought to be.

Putting Christ in a Pagan context is the source of a great amount of corruption in the realm of professing Christianity.  The wise men who came a great distance to see Jesus and give Him gifts did the opposite by leaving the Pagan mindset of their people and entering into a mentality derived from the Biblical Scriptures.

To assert that Christmas is a Christian holiday, and celebrating it along with society, is an implicit statement that the masses are partakers of God’s grace without wholehearted repentance and turning to Christ in utter death to sin and self.  That is surely as severe a lie as can be told.

Very closely related, generally telling people “Merry Christmas” kills the power of the Gospel message- since it implicitly says to people that they are safe from God’s wrath simply because Christ has come.  It is implying that they do not really need to flee from the wrath to come and find a true refuge for their soul in Jesus Christ.

The proper boundaries of Christianity would be so much clearer if society just started calling this holiday by some obviously Pagan name with no Christian association whatsoever.

Santa is a fictional character who is ascribed God-like powers and influence (and scrambling the letters in his name a bit happens to produce the name of a real entity whom the Bible warns is crafty and walking about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour- who also transforms himself as an angel of light).  Who celebrates Christmas without Santa Claus?  

It is also lying to children to tell them about Santa.  That is evil.  Celebrating Christmas and not even endorsing this lie is at best like walking a very thin tightrope. 

If for no other reason at all, one who really wants to honor Jesus Christ should not celebrate Christmas due to how Santa Claus is inherently a prominent figure, if not the central figure, in Christmas celebrations.  Isaiah 42:8 says: “I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.”

Frivolous expenses and debt typically associated with Christmas celebration are normal and often enormous.  Doing righteousness before God involves staying out of unnecessary debt and using one’s abundance to meet the needs of the poor.

Those who want to give a gift to a friend or a family member can do so anytime.  No harm is done if that is a surprise; and it is better to not go into debt in order to give it at a specific prescribed time when you can’t even afford it.

The Christmas spirit is not the Spirit of Christ.  The joy of Christmas comes with the Christmas season and it goes with the exit of the Christmas season.  It is no different with alcohol (which by the way, many don’t see as the slightest bit incompatible with celebrating Christmas).  

Celebrating Christmas is a source of stress and turmoil that is unnecessary and healthy to do without.

If someone rejects you for not celebrating Christmas with them, your relationship isn’t worth keeping anyways and would probably pull you into darkness in other ways eventually too.

There are good songs about Christ’s birth which can be sung anytime.  Many of them were actually written with the intention of being sung at any time of the year and not specifically written with the intention of being regarded as Christmas songs.

Celebrating Christmas doesn’t prove one iota that one is a true disciple of Jesus Christ.  On the other hand, many who clearly disregard what the Bible does say (not just on this matter but on many other matters as well) treat Christmas as sacred and are zealous to defend it like they ought to be zealous to actually keep God’s Word.

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