Tradiitions 109 - Christian Arguments Against Christmas (2)

•Celebrating Christmas is pagan:

Some say that we cannot recognize the birth of Christ because of the birth of Tammuz or Nimrod. The biblical story of Christ’s birth is not a copy of the earlier account of Nimrod's birth. Similar stories of virgin born deities resonate throughout pagan cultures because of the enemy’s plan to parallel the true story with false accounts.

•The bible forbids Christmas trees:

“Thus saith the Lord, learn not the way of the heathen.... For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not” (Jeremiah 10:1-4). This passage does not refer to putting a Christmas tree in one’s home and decorating it. Rather, it describes the process of making idols from wood. Craftsmen that created idols, in those days, would fasten gold and silver onto wooden carvings. This is a very lucrative business practice even to this day. When you visit foreign countries you can observe idol carvings of wood that are decked in gold or silver. This has nothing to do with a decorated tree. The early church even decorated palm leaves for “Palm Sunday”, to celebrate Christ’s triumphant entry into Jerusalem.

•Christmas is not Christ’s birthday:

Pagans desire for us to accept that Tammuz, Osiris, Gilgamesh, Saturn, Zeus, Odon, Shiva, etc were all born of a virgin and when you celebrate Christ's birth, you are really celebrating all of their births and not His. False! Christ is the only true, virginborn king. The other stories are fictitious accounts that attempt to make Jesus’ immaculate conception common and not miraculous. We choose to celebrate Christmas, in order to recognize Christ’s birth, as we observe our own birthdays.