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What do Christian's do in December?
Nothing special. Since Christmas is not a Christian holiday but a pagan one rather.
Was the pagan holiday bad?
Many of the holidays we have today like Christmas and New years are based in part around former Pagan Celebrations. No holiday is bad. Holidays are times of celebration and family gatherings.
Why do people celebrate Christmas in Nigeria?
Christmas is a universal holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, over 2000 years ago. There is speculation that celebrating Christmas in Dec. allowed the persecuted Christians to hold their festivities 'undercover' while the pagan population celebrated their own pagan holiday, which I believe was celebrating the Sun.
Is Christmas a pagan ceremony?
Yes, Christmas is a pagan holiday. It was a popular holiday celebrated throughout the Roman Empire. Catholics thought that it felt appropriate to make the December 25 holiday (the birthday of the sun god Sol Invictus) the birthday of Christ Jesus. Though no verse in the Bible specifies the exact birth date of Christ Jesus.
How did Christ get into Christmas?
In the 4th century, just after Christianity became the official religion of the Ancient Roman Empire, Christmas (then called "Feast of the Nativity of the Christchild") was created and placed on December 25 in an effort to replace the existing pagan holiday, "Dies Natalis Solis Invicti" (English: Birth of the Unconquered Sun God) with a Christian holiday.
Where can you find December 25 in the Bible?
the date of Christmas was most likely not from the Bible but taken from the pagan holiday ''winter solstice''
What is a holiday other than Christmas?
Other holidays include Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, and Halloween. Which are Pagan all the way.
What holiday did the Pagans celebrate on Christmas?
To give thanks for a plentiful harvest and to mourn the dead that have passed in the previous year.
When where Christmas invented?
Christmas comes to us from the middle ages. The Catholic church wanted to replace the pagan celebrations with Christian ones so they used the days that the pagans were all ready using and made them into Christian holidays. December 25th was a pagan holiday of the Winter solace. The word "Christmas" is really Christ Mass, and the people had 3 masses a day on Christmas Day. There were no gifts nor decorated trees. Evergreens were brought in, even by the pagans, but they weren't used as Christmas trees.
In what state was it illegal to celebrate Christmas?
In 1659 it was illegal to celebrate Christmas in Massachusetts
When was the first Christmas after Jesus was born celebrated?
The early Christians did not celebrate Christmas. Many parts of the celebration of Christmas were originally from pagan religions, and were celebrated by non-Christians. In around 300 AD, the celebration of Christmas became a Roman Catholic holiday, and gradually thereafter was accepted by Protestants also. Even many early settlers in the colonies which became the US did not celebrate Christmas because they saw it as a pagan holiday. It was not seen by these Christians as having anything to do with Christ.
Was Christmas originally celebrated on December 25?
For many decades Christians did not observe Christmas - the important event was Easter (although that name comes from a pagan deity). Christmas is an adaptation of a pagan holiday celebrating the solstice. Jesus of Nazareth was probably born in April; he most certainly was not born in late December.
