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The "celebration" of Christmas dishonors and offends God. After being born-again in the fall of 2001, it took the loving and gentle guidance of the Holy Spirit four Christmas seasons to bring this truth into clear focus and understanding.

Over the course of some 26 years, I shared the evolution of Christmas traditions in America with thousands of young children and with hundreds of adults without realizing I was dishonoring and displeasing God.

I am the person who researched Christmas traditions for the Christmas tour program and Christmas event and initiated these activities at the historic W. W. Mayo House in Le Sueur, Minnesota. As I did the research, I reviewed materials that were cleaned up versions that seemed to sound okay on the origins of our Christmas celebration traditions. I was aware that our traditions had pagan origins, but the significance of this went right over my head.

Everything from the Christmas tree and its decorations to Christmas colors to holly and mistletoe to Christmas wreaths to candle lighting to singing carols to the exchanging of gifts, all of which have become embedded into today's Christmas celebration have their root origins in pagan religious practices and celebration. In some form, they all relate to the worship of false gods with their pagan religious rituals and celebration conducted at the time of the winter solstice of the sun in December.

When the Church of Rome attempted to draw pagans into the church, basically church leaders invited these pagans to bring their traditions with them. Through the working of the Holy Spirit, I pray that you will take this truth into your heart: It is impossible to marry pagan religious rituals and traditions (the unclean and impure) to a celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ (the clean and pure) and expect that the union of the two can ever honor God and be pleasing to Him.

It is impossible to welcome pagan religious traditions into the Christian Church with the idea that somehow these traditions can be cleaned up. Instead, only the opposite can happen. The marriage of pagan religious traditions with The Church can only work to defile and contaminate The Church.

Blatantly, we now live with the results of the attempt to marry the two. The "celebration" of Christmas has returned to its root origins, it has become a full blown pagan celebration. Christmas was intended to be a celebration of the clean, pure and humble birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Today, Jesus is no where to be found in the unclean, impure and godless "celebration" of Christmas.

To learn more about the origins of Christmas traditions, just go to a search engine on the internet and enter Origins Christmas Traditions. You will find many articles on this subject.

Christmas Project - E-mail Letter 2 will discuss how the "Celebration" of Christmas breaks the First Four of the Ten Commandments.

The Bible teaches we are to live in the world, but we are not to partake of the evils of the world.

We are to be separated from the world of evil. “Touch not the unclean thing,” says the Lord.
(Quoted from Billy Graham's Website www.billygraham.org)