{"id":810,"date":"2019-07-17T14:57:32","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T19:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchorstate.com\/?p=810"},"modified":"2019-07-18T04:58:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T09:58:20","slug":"christmas-the-roman-pagan-holiday-an-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/churchorstate.com\/?p=810","title":{"rendered":"Christmas, The Roman Pagan Holiday: An Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The title for this post will probably not surprise many.&nbsp; The origin of christmas is well researched and the information is widely available.&nbsp; However you won&#8217;t find it in very many churches.&nbsp; In spite of many protestant churches taking a &#8216;hard stance&#8217; against the practices of the Roman church calling itself catholic, in reality most of these churches still practice rituals of the Roman church, and among the most popular is christmas.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Christmas and easter are the two most common rituals all Christians and non-Roman churches should run away from as fast as they can, as they directly break the first two of YHWH&#8217;s commandments relating to false gods.&nbsp; With christmas it&#8217;s virtually everything having to do with the celebration, from the yule log to the tree to the christmas spirit to, well, everything.<\/p>\n<p>What does this have to do with the &#8216;church&#8217; in Rome?&nbsp; In a nutshell, they hijacked an old pagan sun\/sun god worship festival and called it the birthday of the Messiah.&nbsp; In the process they also attached one of their saints to it, and over the years it&#8217;s taken on more pagan and satanic symbolism and worship.&nbsp; Today it promotes idol worship, spiritualism, and magic.&nbsp; Does this sound like something the one and only true church of YHWH would do?&nbsp; Of course not, and it&#8217;s but one of the multitude of reasons the Roman Catholic church is a tool of satan.<\/p>\n<p>This is VERY well documented and easily found online, so it wouldn&#8217;t benefit anyone or be a good use of my time for me to attempt to lay it out here.&nbsp; But I will list a few good resources for you to look at.<\/p>\n<p>The United Church of God has a good introduction on this in &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucg.org\/bible-study-tools\/booklets\/holidays-or-holy-days-does-it-matter-which-days-we-observe\/christmas-the\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Christmas The Untold Story<\/a>&#8216;.&nbsp; This was probably the first exposure I had on this topic.&nbsp; It never came from the non-denominational churches I attended.<\/p>\n<p>There is a sermon titled &#8216;Christmas: Christian or Pagan?&#8217; by Pastor Jim McClarty of Grace Christian Assembly available on youtube.&nbsp; It&#8217;s typically found in 7 parts.&nbsp; An example can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dtuIqFZOXBY\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>, but if that link stops working you can search and find it posted by many others.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a good introduction on this topic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.119ministries.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">119 Ministries<\/a> is a very good and helpful resource in finding truth and ditching the Romans, including some on christmas traditions.<\/p>\n<p>Controversial Pastor Michael Rood also has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=michael+rood+christmas\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">several teachings on christmas on youtube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Even the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/christmas\/history-of-christmas\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">History Channel<\/a> doesn&#8217;t try to hide the truth of it.<\/p>\n<p>Search out other resources online for yourself.&nbsp; Beware of the source as there is an abundance of bad information out there as well.&nbsp; And ALWAYS pray and ask YHWH to guide you in your search for His truth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In Conclusion<\/strong><br \/>\nObserving pagan rituals and worshiping idols, I believe, could very well jeopardize our salvation.&nbsp; We are talking the first two commandments after all.&nbsp; Not keeping the commandments out of ignorance may not be a salvation issue, but doing so in full awareness could be.&nbsp; Not salvation by works, but Yahshua said if you love Him keep His commandments.&nbsp; This point I have no desire to argue or debate.&nbsp; You decide.<\/p>\n<p>Yet now you know.&nbsp; And with knowledge comes our responsibility to act.&nbsp; Do we act out of willful disobedience and keep the pagan practices, or do we act on our knowledge and out of love for YHWH and walk away from christmas?&nbsp; The choice is yours.&nbsp; May YHWH bless you and lead you to honor His will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title for this post will probably not surprise many.&nbsp; The origin of christmas is well researched and the information is widely available.&nbsp; However you won&#8217;t find it in very many churches.&nbsp; In spite of many protestant churches taking a &#8216;hard stance&#8217; against the practices of the Roman church calling itself catholic, in reality most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[49,55,53],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church","category-history","tag-christmas","tag-holiday","tag-pagan"],"views":1505,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchorstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchorstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchorstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchorstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchorstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/churchorstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchorstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchorstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchorstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}