Bob Barney briefly explains in this broadcast the origins, traditions, and the practices of Christmas which are unmistakably pagan and outside of the biblical faith. It challenges the common view that Christmas was and is a Christian celebration and calls for a biblical perspective…
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Regarding “Lets Get Christ OUT of Christmas-He Doesn’t Belong There”.
To begin with it must be noted that my wife and I, as well as our children, are pro-life, believing that life begins at the moment of conception and also I will use the name Jesus Christ even though that was not our Savior’s earthly name.
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Like many other followers of our Savior I have questioned and examined the Christmas holiday all the while offending many family members with half truths and missing pieces of history. I finally did some open minded research on the subject and came to the conclusion that yes, it was a pagan holiday but was also a day when much of Biblical Prophecy began to unfold.
Christmas has been hijacked from a Christian Holy day to a day of commercial self gratification and few people seem to care. When examining the roots of Christmas one finds that by the fourth century the Christian Church had established itself as the official faith of the Roman Empire and had as one of its objectives the elimination of paganism. To accomplish this the Church adopted many pagan holidays and beliefs and rebranded them as Christian Holy days. In essence they absorbed the pagan masses while simultaneously growing their numbers. One such rebranding took place in 336 AD when Pope Julius 1 declared “December 25th, Christ born in Bethlehem, Judea.” December 25 was chosen because many pagan gods were supposedly born on that day. It only made sense to substitute Christ in place of the pagan gods’ birthdays and while the Church didn’t know it, they were actually incorporating a day when the Immaculate Conception took place.
A quick Internet search will tell anyone that human life begins at conception, not birth, and a normal human pregnancy is approximately 280 days.
Many scholars debate the year that Jesus Christ was born but agree that it was in the fall. It is my opinion, when facts and dates are aligned with Holy Scripture, that Christ was born on September 29, 2 B.C. which was, according to God’s Holy Calendar, The Feast of Trumpets, A Time to Repent, a New Beginning, A New Year. In light of Christ’s human life beginning at conception I believe Christmas, December 25 is a much more important date than most Christian Churches realize.