In reality, it has nothing to do with the birth of Christ and everything to do with incorporating pagan traditions into Christianity by the Roman Catholic Church.
Protestants tried breaking away and getting back to the Bible and the Bible alone AKA Sola Scriptura, and the celebration of Christmas was even banned in the United States once upon a time, but those days are long gone.
I used to think it was a Roman Catholic thing as well, but according to Bible scholar Michael S Heiser, the date of Dec 25, although not Biblical, was proposed for other reasons by early church leaders, pre-Roman Catholic times. See NAKED BIBLE podcast Christmas episode from 1 or 2 years ago.
Technically it is a Roman Catholic thing as they are the reason for the current calander being used. I am Coptic Orthodox and we celebrate Christmas on January 7th as we use the old calander.
The Protestants actually cut out a lot of the Bible, which is really sad. Sola Scriptura is a heresy that promotes your own interpretation of the Bible and not what was handed down by Christ himself.
The Protestants actually cut out a lot of the Bible, which is really sad.
The Council of Nicaea removed the Book of Enoch. That was the real tragedy.
Also, this claim is inaccurate.
if you go to the 1611 King James Bible, not only does it contain all of the deuterocanonical books you're referring to, it contains 3 additional books not found in the Roman Catholic Bible.
The Apocrypha section of the original 1611 King James Bible includes, in addition to the deuterocanonical books, the following three books, which were not included in the list of the canonical books by the Council of Trent:[117][118]
I am Orthodox, we have all the books of the Bible. Our Sister Church the Tewahedo Orthodox Church has more books than us which is fine, they include all the books of Enoch.
The Roman Catholics who the Protestants came from also lack all the Books of the Bible. If you look at the first proposed list for the canonical books you will find almost all of the ones we use in the Coptic Church.
In reality it has everything to do with the birth of Christ. The RCC did not turn Christmas into the commercialized circus it has become. Celebrating the birth of Christ on December 25 took the pagan winter solstice celebration of the return of light and used it to celebrate the light Jesus brought to the world.
The sad part of it is even this day isn’t really christs birthdate. It’s David’s celebration of the sun. Another pagan holiday. Even that was washed away in history.
The actual birthdate doesn't matter. The Catholic Church used the winter solstice celebration of light overcoming darkness to celebrate the light of Jesus overcoming the darkness of the world.
In reality, it has nothing to do with the birth of Christ and everything to do with incorporating pagan traditions into Christianity by the Roman Catholic Church.
Protestants tried breaking away and getting back to the Bible and the Bible alone AKA Sola Scriptura, and the celebration of Christmas was even banned in the United States once upon a time, but those days are long gone.
I used to think it was a Roman Catholic thing as well, but according to Bible scholar Michael S Heiser, the date of Dec 25, although not Biblical, was proposed for other reasons by early church leaders, pre-Roman Catholic times. See NAKED BIBLE podcast Christmas episode from 1 or 2 years ago.
Technically it is a Roman Catholic thing as they are the reason for the current calander being used. I am Coptic Orthodox and we celebrate Christmas on January 7th as we use the old calander.
The Protestants actually cut out a lot of the Bible, which is really sad. Sola Scriptura is a heresy that promotes your own interpretation of the Bible and not what was handed down by Christ himself.
The Council of Nicaea removed the Book of Enoch. That was the real tragedy.
Also, this claim is inaccurate.
if you go to the 1611 King James Bible, not only does it contain all of the deuterocanonical books you're referring to, it contains 3 additional books not found in the Roman Catholic Bible.
The Apocrypha section of the original 1611 King James Bible includes, in addition to the deuterocanonical books, the following three books, which were not included in the list of the canonical books by the Council of Trent:[117][118]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterocanonical_books#Anglican_Communion
And these books are referred to as Deuterocanonical or Apocrypha, because the Jews do not include them in their canon.
I am Orthodox, we have all the books of the Bible. Our Sister Church the Tewahedo Orthodox Church has more books than us which is fine, they include all the books of Enoch.
The Roman Catholics who the Protestants came from also lack all the Books of the Bible. If you look at the first proposed list for the canonical books you will find almost all of the ones we use in the Coptic Church.
In reality it has everything to do with the birth of Christ. The RCC did not turn Christmas into the commercialized circus it has become. Celebrating the birth of Christ on December 25 took the pagan winter solstice celebration of the return of light and used it to celebrate the light Jesus brought to the world.
The sad part of it is even this day isn’t really christs birthdate. It’s David’s celebration of the sun. Another pagan holiday. Even that was washed away in history.
The actual birthdate doesn't matter. The Catholic Church used the winter solstice celebration of light overcoming darkness to celebrate the light of Jesus overcoming the darkness of the world.