Little known facts about Christmas!

Every year Christians are faced with the tearing down of one of our major Holidays, Christmas! Some say its a pagan Holiday while others say "Well, thats not the true birth time of Christ!". So lets look at actual fact and by the time we are through, it should be no problem to understand why we celebrate Christmas when we do.

By historical and Bible accounts, Christ would've been born sometime in the spring. March or April would be likely. The Bible speaks of Sheperds being on nightwatch. They only did this once a year and it was during springtime or what was then known as lambing season, the one time of the year that sheep give birth.

Early Churches did'nt celebrate Christmas at all. They focused more on the life, crucifixion, and resurrection of Christ rather than his birth. Christmas did'nt become a widely celebrated holiday until the time of Emperor Constantine 336 A.D, when Christianity was declared the favored religion of the roman empire. It took the place of other pagan and a otherwise normal seasonal holiday to mark the date of the winter solstice. When Churches did start celebrating Christmas there was a problem. Priests found it innapropriate to celebrate Christ birth around the same time that they would be celebrating Easter, so therefore found it more fitting to agree with the Roman's Christmas day of celebrating. Early Christians adopted the bringing indoors of an evergreen tree from the Roman's during winter and so evergreens and their decorations became symbolic of the ever living of Christ.

Christs birth date would've have also fell during the major plating season for most grains and food plants, which was a hectic time of year until modern machinery made it possible to accomplish in a few days rather than weeks, which wouldve deterred many people from celebrating a major holiday. Remember also, Spring would just be starting and the food supplies wouldve been low being that several major holidays for people during that time wouldve called for feasting.

All it takes is a little deep thought and study to see why we celebrate CHristmas when we do.

Lets not forget the real reason we celebrate though. Christ, our Lord and savior.
Lets fight to keep God in our Schools and Government!