christmas on December 25

How We Came To Celebrate Christmas on December 25th

In the 4th century, the Catholic Church and its officials decided to institute the birth of Jesus Christ as a holiday. Although the date of his birth is not pinpointed in the Bible, Pope Julius I chose December 25th to celebrate this occasion.

When Oliver Cromwell and his Puritan forces took over England in 1645 they vowed to rid England of decadence and, as part of this effort, Christmas was cancelled.
The tree was celebrated as a pagan tradition long before the birth of Christ.

Remember that Jeremiah is a book of rebuke and the theme is the partial destruction of the chosen of God in Israel for disobedience:


Jeremiah 10: 1 Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:

Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

Bob says The wiccans or witches are angry that Christians stole their holiday

Bob says in other words, God says: Do not do these customs - like decorate tree's

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.

Bob: DECK THE HALLS....FALALALALA.....

They [are] upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also [is it] in them to do good.

Forasmuch as [there is] none like unto thee, O LORD; thou [art] great, and thy name [is] great in might.


But the LORD [is] the true God, he [is] the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.

Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, [even] they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.

Charles II was later restored to the throne by popular demand andwith him came the return of the popular Christmas holiday. The pilgrims -- English separatists that came to American in 1620 -- were even more othodox in their Puritan beliefs than Cromwell. As a result,Christmas was not a holiday in early America. In fact from 1659 to 1681, the celebration of Christmas was outlawed in Boston. Anyone exhibiting the Christmas tree was fined five shillings.

After the American Revolution, English customs - including Christmas - fell out of favor. Congress even sat in session as a regular work day on December25, 1789, the first Christmas under America's new constitution. It was not until well after the Civil War, on June 26, 1870, that Christmaswas declared a federal holiday, to be observed on December 25th to this day.

This is when America was falling away from the roots of Christianity.