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shortened to Christmas. But the pagans didn't care that the name of their holiday was changed because nothing about the rites, rituals and practices changed with it.

Christmas cannot be defended using the scriptures. The account of the Messiah's birth as told in the gospels offers us a chronicling of this event, but that's all it is. Is it presumptuous of man to invent a holiday using the bible when the bible tells us nothing at all about it, and in fact speaks directly against it? It is not only presumptuous, it is transgression. Isaiah chapter 8 verse 20 tells us "To the law and to the testimony (prophets): if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light (truth) in them". Furthermore, Jeremiah chapter 10 verses 2 -4 has this to say regarding pagan customs: "...learn not the way of the nations, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the nations are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not." These words, directly from the Most High God, clearly speak against a pagan custom that was taking place during the time of Jeremiah the prophet, a custom that is still practiced today, a custom associated with Saturnalia and with Christmas.

Deuteronomy chapter 4 verse 2 tells us: "You shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall you diminish from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Most High your God which I command you". Incontrovertibly, by using the bible to substantiate Christmas, by using the account of the birth of the Messiah to validate celebrating a holiday that cannot be found anywhere between Genesis and Revelation is more assuredly adding to the word of the Most High God.

The bible not only does not support Christmas, it cannot support this holiday, because the two are diametrically opposed. The celebrating of Christmas, with its pagan practices, customs, rites, and rituals, goes against the very nature of the Most High. The bible speaks against such practices, warns man to avoid such practices, when he tells us in Exodus chapter 20 verses 3 -5: "You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make unto you any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them..." In the eyes of the Most High, there is no difference between Saturnalia and Christmas.

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