This was an excellent article and a perennial favorite of mine to answer the charge that “Christmas is Pagan” by those who wish to steer people from the celebration of the birth of Christ.  Written by Greg Koukl of Stand to Reason.org, he presents excellent reasons why Christmas isn’t pagan in easy to share clarity.

Enjoy and have a very, Merry CHRISTmas!!!

Carlotta
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Is Christmas Pagan

Gregory Koukl

Greg sets the record straight on some old rumors about the origin of Christmas and separates the concepts of the meaning of Christmas from the spirit of Christmas.

The question of whether Christmas is pagan enters into the idea of cultural practices. Some have made the assertion that Christmas has pagan origins. Christmas does not have pagan origins, but there are winter celebrations that are pagan. There was, for example, a saturnal celebration around the time of Christmas that pagans celebrated, which was actually a temptation for Christians to participate in that had pagan content to it. So the church changed the day that they celebrated the birth of Christ. They used to celebrate it in the Spring. But the church said, “We can celebrate it any time we want. Let’s celebrate it at the same time the pagans are celebrating their pagan festival. It’ll act as a contrast to that pagan festival because our celebration is the birth of the God-man, Jesus Christ. It has Biblical content. Plus it will protect Christians from being wooed away by this other celebration to participate in what was a pagan celebration”.

See complete article here: Is Christmas Pagan?

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