Can we be certain that Jesus Christ was born on December 25th? The Bible gives no exact date for His birth, so why celebrate on a date tied to pagan traditions? 🎄
The first recorded instance of December 25th being celebrated as Christ's birth comes from a Roman calendar in AD 336, long after it was used to celebrate Dies Natalis Solis Invicti (the “Birthday of the Unconquered Sun”). This date is speculated to have origins in ancient Babylon (approx. 2000 BC), marking the birth of Tammuz, and is celebrated after a woman’s typical gestation period following the pagan fertility festival of Easter. By aligning Christ’s birth with this pagan festival, we risk blending the worship of God with sun worship, which the Bible condemns (Romans 1:25).
Let’s also remember the abominable practices described in Ezekiel 8:16-18, where the people were worshipping the sun in God’s temple—an act of rebellion against God. As Ecclesiastes 1:9 reminds us, “There is nothing new under the sun”, and such practices persist even today.
Additionally, Jeremiah 10:2-5 warns against the customs of the nations, such as cutting, fastening in place and decorating trees with silver and gold—practices still reflected in today’s December 25th tradition. This mirrors an ancient pagan ritual that elevates the tree to the status of an idol.
In Deuteronomy 12:29-32, God specifically commands His people not to adopt the worship practices of other nations, emphasizing that worship must align with His word in Bible scripture, not with man-made traditions.
If you love the LORD God, flee from this pagan festival and don’t justify it for the sake of family. Jesus said, “Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me” (Matthew 10:37 ESV).
We are commanded to worship God in spirit and truth. If the world or your family opposes you, rejoice, for your reward in heaven will be great. As they persecuted the prophets, so they will persecute you. May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you, to Him be the glory, now and forever.
Each equinox and solstice are denoted in every religion as dates for of historic religious events.
Ishtar is represented as the regeneration of Spring (Easter).
Christ is the Christos/logos in the greek. Mithra in the Persian
Is Christ the sun? Figuratively even? Let's find out:
Sauce: https://kupdf.net/download/jesus-christ-sun-of-god-ancient-cosmology-and-early-christian-symbolism-by-david-r-fideler-ocr_58a100e36454a7335db1eb87_pdf
Christ is likened to the sun by some Early Church fathers. Being the second person of the Godhead, He is eternal and the light He brings is also eternal and uncreated. The sun is an astronomical created inanimate object and the light it emits is purely physical.
So no, Christ is not the sun but the fathers liken Him to it as an analogy and a symbol. Christ is a divine person who assumed human nature in order to save humanity from death (the result of Adam's fall) and bring it in communion with God. He is not similar to Ishtar, Osiris, Apollo, Saturn, Mithra or any of those demon gods that pagans worship. Even if other religions had some notion of God their knowledge was incomplete led them to erroneous doctrines. Christianity is not sun worship in any way shape or form. The Christian calendar is cyclical because God made the world that way, so it reflects that basic reality of nature.
The sun and moon was the focal point of every religion through all time. The names of the gods are rooted in the understanding of the development of languages and math....all done way before the christian era.
That doesn't tell me much except that there were religions and cults that worshipped the sun and the moon as well as other natural objects. I don't disagree with that. You make a logical leap when you equivocate Christianity to those cults because of some superficial resemblance and your conclusion is arbitrary - it could very well be the case that Christianity is the true religion and all the pagan cults tried to explain God using the world around them and mythologizing the celestial objects. You start with a naturalistic presupposition about what religion is and how it came to be, that it evolved and was not revealed since the beginning of time and that no single religion is entirely true (all presuppositions common in perennialism and comparative religion studies). There's no such thing as neutral ground and all evidence is theory laden and viewed through a paradigm. So why is your paradigm the correct one?
How is Christ's name related to the sun or the moon?
If you Really want the full answer to that, it can be found here.
https://www.scribd.com/document/398575567/230403079-Jesus-Christ-Sun-of-God-Ancient-Cosmology-and-Early-Christian-Symbolism-by-David-R-Fideler-pdf