2023年12月8日 · There are only two examples of birthday celebrations mentioned in the Bible—of the Egyptian pharaoh in Genesis 40:20 and of King Herod in Matthew 14:6 and Mark 6:21—and tragic events happened in conjunction with them. Some claim these examples show that celebrating birthdays is unbiblical.

Birthday celebrations have pagan roots. According to Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology, and Legend, these celebrations originated from the belief that on a person’s birthday, “evil spirits and influences have the opportunity to attack the celebrants” and that “the presence of friends and the expression of good ...

2004年12月3日 · History convincingly shows that December 25 was popularized as the date for Christmas, not because Christ was born on that day but because it was already popular in pagan religious celebrations as the birthday of the sun. The biblical accounts point to the fall of the year as the most likely time of Jesus' birth.

(The History of the Christian Religion and Church, During the Three First Centuries, translated by H. J. Rose, 1848, p. 190) “Origen [a writer of the third century C.E.] . . . insists that ‘of all the holy people in the Scriptures, no one is recorded to have kept a feast or held a great banquet on his birthday. It is only sinners (like ...

2017年12月4日 · Many feel that Christmas marks Christ’s birthday and that it honors Him. After all, can 2 billion professing Christians be wrong? At the same time, some few Christians don’t observe Christmas, believing that Jesus didn’t sanction it and that it dishonors Him. Who is right—and why?

2019年12月5日 · The commemoration of the birthday of the Lord on December 25 spread from Rome throughout the Western Church from the 4th century [A.D. 300s], and Epiphany [on Jan. 6] remained as the commemoration of the Magi incident recounted in M[atthew] 2.1-12” (“Early Christian Feasts,” 1967, Vol. 5, p. 868).

The History of the Christian Religion and Church, During the Three First Centuries (New York, 1848), Augustus Neander (translated by Henry John Rose), p. 190. “The later Hebrews looked on the celebration of birthdays as a part of idolatrous worship, a view which would be abundantly confirmed by what they saw of the common observances ...

2018年12月23日 · "Lacking any scriptural pointers to Jesus' birthday, early Christian teachers suggested dates all over the calendar...Clement who was an early church father, he picked November 18th...A man named Hippolytus, another early father, he "figured Christ must have been born on a Wednesday...And then there is an anonymous document believed to have ...

1997年11月21日 · Similarly, 25 December, now Christ's birthday, was also the day of Sol Invictus' festival . . . celebrated by cutting green branches and hanging little lights on them, and presents were given out in the god's name. Sol's weekly festival Sol …

2010年11月8日 · The motives for the innovation are stated with great frankness by a Syrian writer, himself a Christian...'It was a custom of the heathen to celebrate on the same twenty-fifth of December the birthday of the Sun, at which they kindled lights in token of festivity. In these solemnities and festivities the Christians also took part.