The annual celebration of Christmas is embraced worldwide across various beliefs, yet many of its customs and traditions have pagan origins. This undeniable fact highlights the incorporation of pagan elements into the observance, notably the timing of December 25, which coincides with the pagan Saturnalia. Roman Christianity adopted and syncretized numerous pagan customs to integrate diverse peoples into their fold, a historical adaptation that shapes the modern celebration of Christmas.

The practice of using a Christmas tree, as seen today, mirrors the carved idols described in Jeremiah's time. This custom, associated with the signs of heaven, aligns with the winter solstice, revealing its pagan origin despite modern unawareness of this connection. Jeremiah's writings, primarily prophetic, apply to our time and common modern customs, labeling the act of cutting down and setting up a tree as the way of the Gentiles. We are commanded not to learn or follow such ways, as this practice is clearly identified as idolatry.

The origins of Christmas are deeply rooted in pagan practices, revealing a history that starkly contrasts with its modern associations. December 25 was not the birth date of Jesus Christ, as the Bible provides no specific date for His birth, with clues suggesting a likely time in late September around the fall holy days. Instead, December 25 was historically tied to Saturnalia, a weeklong Roman festival of lawlessness and anarchy from December 17-25, marked by vandalism, mayhem, and brutal human sacrifice on the final day. This festival also featured widespread drunkenness, public nudity, rape, and other sexual license. After Constantine's conversion to Catholicism, many pagans retained their Saturnalia celebrations by rebranding December 25 as Jesus' birthday, replacing the worship of Sol Invictus, the Invincible Sun, though the practices remained largely unchanged. Many Christmas traditions are directly imported from paganism, violating God's command in Deuteronomy 12:30-31 against adopting the abominable ways of other nations in worship. The Catholic Church embraced pagan tree-worshippers by renaming their trees Christmas trees. Mistletoe, used by ancient Druids for mystical protection and by Norsemen to symbolize love, merged with Saturnalia's sexual license to form the custom of kissing beneath it. Gift-giving, attributed to Saint Nicholas, who died in AD 345, evolved through syncretism with pagan figures like Woden, a bearded deity who rode through the heavens, transforming into the modern Santa Claus through cultural blending and commercial influences. Furthermore, December 25 has long been a significant date for pagans, marking the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, venerated by sun god worshippers across various cultures, including Egyptians celebrating Horus' birthday, as well as Mesopotamians, ancient Greeks, and Persians. These winter solstice traditions predate the birth of Jesus Christ by centuries, underscoring the pagan foundation of the date chosen for Christmas.

Christmas is a bundle of contradictions and outright lies, with many aware of its pagan origins. In the early fourth century, the Catholic Church combined the Roman winter solstice festival, Saturnalia, with a celebration of Jesus Christ's birth to ease new converts into Christianity. The term Yule, an alternate name for the season, originates from a pagan midwinter festival, and practices like the Yule log trace back to heathen customs of driving away evil spirits with bonfires on the winter solstice night. Despite these well-known pagan elements, Christmas continues because human nature deceives itself into practicing enjoyable traditions, justifying contradictions for personal benefit and attaching religious significance, whether real or imagined, to them. People are unlikely to abandon Christmas due to its pagan roots, as human nature has a history of explaining away such details.

The winter solstice, marking the start of the coldest months, closely precedes Christmas, though the two no longer align perfectly due to calendar discrepancies over centuries. Christmas-celebrating Christians often defend this holiday against secular efforts to remove religious elements, pushing for terms like "Holiday" and non-religious winter music in public spaces. Yet, the irony lies in their defense of a celebration lacking biblical foundation. The Nativity accounts in Matthew and Luke provide no evidence for a winter birth date for Jesus Christ, with many scholars suggesting an autumn birth instead, likely near the fall festivals. Details in traditional Christmas depictions, such as the number of wise men or the timing of their arrival, also conflict with scriptural records. The core issue of Christmas is not political correctness, but truth, as the biblical facts do not support its celebration, rendering it a falsehood unworthy of dedication to Him.

Christmas, with its dazzling lights, greenery, and jolly Santas on every corner, appears beautiful and harmless on the surface. Yet, the customs of using evergreens, lights, and giving dolls reveal a deeper, pagan origin. Decorating with evergreens, such as Christmas trees, wreaths, and mistletoe, stems from ancient fears of darkness and evil spirits, as people believed light could ward off such forces. However, satan has embraced these lights to misguide a deceived mankind. The practice of giving dolls, a common Christmas gift for little girls, also traces back to heathen customs, with ancient Romans and Greeks offering dolls during Saturnalia, possibly representing human sacrifices to infernal gods like Baal or Cronus. Through beautiful evergreen trees, islands of light, and cute dolls, satan crafts deceptions that seem attractive and harmless, drawing people away from God. Researchers recognize Christmas as a pagan festival, highlighting its roots in ancient, deceptive practices.

Professing Christians have been celebrating Christmas since the fourth century, assuming it must be pleasing to God. Yet, few contemplate whether the Father and the Son are pleased with the worship offered on the assumed birthday of Jesus Christ. Christmas contains no truth, aside from the fact that the Son of God was born of a woman. It most certainly did not occur in the dead of winter, when shepherds and their flocks would have deserted the fields. There is no example of the early church celebrating the birth date of Jesus Christ, nor is there divine instruction to do so. Christmas qualifies as aimless, fruitless conduct received by tradition over the millennia, at the expense of God's Word. Despite the well-known pagan origins of Christmas and its trappings, and the common knowledge that the date coincides with solstice celebrations, there is still belligerence and defensiveness when questions are raised about its appropriateness, wisdom, or holiness. Defenders assertively assume that since it is done to honor God, He must feel honored, yet the Son is not well-pleased with these gestures rooted in falsehood.

Christmas, as celebrated today, is steeped in pagan origins that predate Christianity. The date of December 25 has long been associated with sun worship across various cultures for millennia, and its timing and trappings bear no connection to the actual birth of Jesus Christ. In the early fourth century, the Catholic Church merged the Roman winter solstice festival, Saturnalia, with a celebration of Jesus' birth to ease the transition for new converts. The term "Yule," another name for the season, directly refers to a pagan midwinter festival. Even the tradition of the Yule log traces back to heathen practices of using bonfires to ward off evil spirits on the winter solstice night. These well-documented pagan roots raise questions about the legitimacy of associating such customs with the worship of God. Despite this, the Christmas tradition persists, largely because human nature justifies self-contradictory practices for the sake of enjoyment and perceived benefits, often disregarding the truth of their origins.

Many people are well aware of the tainted origin and history of Christmas, yet this holiday flourishes in the materialistic Western world, spreading its revelry globally. Despite widespread information on the Internet, in magazines, newspapers, and newscasts revealing its non-Christian background, Christmas remains a quagmire of deceptive traditions marked by a syncretistic blend of pagan rites and Christian themes. Historical sources indicate that Christmas was not observed by Christians from the time of Christ until about AD 300. Saturnalia (December 17-24) and Brumalia (December 25) persisted as pagan celebrations by the Romans well into the 4th century AD. During this period, the emperor Constantine, upon his apparent conversion, changed Sabbath keeping to the first day of the week, aligning with his prior worship of the sun god, thus facilitating the transformation of the pagan December 25th winter solstice festival into a celebration of the Son of God. Christmas is characterized by decadence, lying, greed, cavorting, drunkenness, gluttony, and murder, offering no true worship of God and Jesus Christ. The practice of gift-giving during Christmas, often justified as mirroring the gifts given to Christ, stems instead from ancient pagan customs of gift exchange, not from the historical context of the wise men presenting gifts to honor a King much later than His birth. Such practices turn people's hearts away from God, reflecting a mixture of idolatrous customs with worship that God has historically condemned, as seen in warnings to the Israelites against adopting the ways of surrounding nations.

Where did the celebration of Christmas originate? It did not come from the Bible or the early apostles but gravitated into the Roman Church from paganism in the fourth century. Historical authorities, such as the Catholic Encyclopedia of 1911, reveal that Christmas was not among the earliest festivals of the Church, with the first evidence appearing in Egypt, where pagan customs centering around the January calends merged into Christmas. Encyclopaedia Britannica confirms that Christmas was not instituted by Christ or the apostles but was adopted from paganism later on. The Encyclopedia Americana notes that a feast for Christ's birth was established in the fourth century, and by the fifth century, the Western Church ordered it to be celebrated on the day of the old Roman feast of the birth of Sol, due to the lack of certain knowledge about the actual date of Christ's birth. How did this pagan custom infiltrate the Western Christian world? The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge explains that the date of Christmas was influenced by the pagan Brumalia on December 25, following the Saturnalia, celebrating the shortest day of the year and the 'new sun.' These pagan festivals were deeply entrenched in popular custom, and Christians adopted them with little change in spirit or manner, despite protests from some Christian preachers against the frivolity of the celebration. With the rise of Constantine in the fourth century, who placed Christianity on equal footing with paganism, masses of people in the Roman world began accepting Christianity while retaining their pagan customs, including the December 25th festival. The influence of pagan Manichaeism, identifying the Son of God with the physical sun, provided an excuse for pagans to call their festival the birthday of the Son of God. The real origin of Christmas traces back to ancient Babylon, stemming from the Babylonish system founded by Nimrod, grandson of Ham. After Nimrod's death, his mother-wife, Semiramis, claimed a full-grown evergreen tree sprang from a dead stump, symbolizing Nimrod's rebirth, and on each anniversary of his birth, December 25th, he would visit the tree and leave gifts. This is the origin of the Christmas tree. Semiramis became the Babylonian Queen of Heaven, and Nimrod, under various names, became the divine son of heaven, forming a false Babylonish system of worship that spread worldwide under different names and guises. During the fourth and fifth centuries, as pagans accepted Christianity en masse, they carried over these customs, cloaking them with Christian-sounding names. Customs such as the holly wreath, mistletoe, and Yule log also have pagan roots. Mistletoe was considered sacred to the sun among ancient pagans for its supposed healing powers, and kissing under it was part of revelry celebrating the winter solstice. Holly berries were sacred to the sun-god, and the Yule log, meaning 'wheel,' symbolized the sun. The Encyclopedia Americana states that holly, mistletoe, and the Yule log are relics of pre-Christian times, directly tied to paganism. The use of Christmas wreaths is believed to trace back to pagan customs of decorating buildings during feasts coinciding with Christmas, and the Christmas tree itself originates from Egypt, predating the Christian era by a significant period.

The celebration of Christmas carries deep pagan origins, evident in the names and traditions associated with the holiday. Yule, derived from the Old English word géol, refers to a twelve-day winter festival of feasting, drinking, and sacrificing observed by Germanic peoples in northern Europe, linked to the Norse god Odin, known as Yule Father or the Yule One. The term jolly, often tied to Santa Claus, stems from Yule, while Yuletide denotes the season of this festival. Yule is also associated with the pagan Wild Hunt, a supernatural event led by Odin, thought to signal catastrophe or a soul's descent into the underworld, and with the Anglo-Saxon Modranicht, an all-female fertility rite on what is now Christmas Eve, possibly involving sacrifice. Traditions like the Yule log, eating ham as the Yule boar, and singing carols on Christmas all trace back to this Germanic festival. Similarly, Noël, derived from the Latin natalis meaning "of the birth," connects to the Roman winter festival Dies Natalis Solis Invicti, the Day of the Birth of the Unconquered Sun, celebrated on the winter solstice, which in pre-Christian times fell on December 25. This date's alignment with a traditional calculation of Christ's birth suggests an appropriation of the pagan festival into Christian observance. A sermon by Augustine of Hippo indicates a need to distinguish the Christian celebration from its pagan predecessor, emphasizing a focus on the Creator over the created sun. These historical roots reveal how Christmas intertwines with ancient pagan customs and festivals.

Christmas, as celebrated on December 25 by most churches, has no basis in Scripture for commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ. The actual date of His birth remains unknown, and there is no evidence of the nativity being celebrated before the third century. Unlike God's commanded feasts, which are detailed with specific months, days, and durations in Scripture, Christmas lacks any biblical authority or endorsement. Instead, its origins are rooted in pagan practices, evident in traditions like the Christmas tree, which trace back to pre-Christian rituals of bringing live trees into homes for wood spirits, adorned with bells, food, and pentagrams symbolizing the five elements. Other historical accounts link the tree to unrelated symbolic interpretations, none of which are supported by the Bible. God warns against adding to His instructions, as seen in Deuteronomy and Revelation, and expresses disdain for human-instituted feast days that mix worship of Him with pagan elements. Christmas, therefore, does not reflect the truth of God's Word and cannot be considered a work of His Spirit.