The Amazing History of Christmas | 5-Minute Video | PragerU

[@steveguti6452]

Jesus Christ is the reason for the season praise the Lord praise God praying for everyone Everyday God bless you all

[@gabriel08607]

He’s not, because literally nowhere in the Bible does it say anything about Christmas, December 25th, or even the date of Jesus’ birth

[@CaptainBars]

@@gabriel08607 Did you know that out of all the appearances made by angels in the Bible, the Birth-of-Christ story is the only one where they appeared in a great multitude giving praise and glory to God in the presence of humans? For even in the accounts of Christ’s resurrection, only two angels appeared to the women to give the Good News, and even then, oddly enough, they said nothing about giving praise and worship. We can further observe that in all other accounts of angelic appearances to humans (not counting prophetic visions and dreams), the angel either appeared by himself or came with only one other, and they likewise never made praises to God. So when seeing how Christ’s birth is seemingly the only event which the angels made a big splashy production out of, should we not follow their example and celebrate the event likewise? Now some critics may respond to this by arguing that if God wanted us to celebrate the events surrounding Christ’s birth, lavishly or otherwise, He should have clearly spelled it out for us somewhere in the scriptures. Well please forgive my bluntness, but are you really so dense that you can’t read between the lines of a passage like Luke 2:7-20 and see that we *shouldn’t need* to have something like this spelled out for us? In fact, I might go as far as to say that we ought to feel insulted if God felt the need to spell out something like this more clearly.

[@CaptainBars]

​@@gabriel08607 Did you know that out of all the appearances made by angels in the Bible, the Birth-of-Christ story is the only one where they appeared in a great multitude giving praise and glory to God in the presence of humans? For even in the accounts of Christ’s resurrection, only two angels appeared to the women to give the Good News, and even then, oddly enough, they said nothing about giving praise and worship. We can further observe that in all other accounts of angelic appearances to humans (not counting prophetic visions and dreams), the angel either appeared by himself or came with only one other, and they likewise never made praises to God. So when seeing how Christ’s birth is seemingly the only event which the angels made a big splashy production out of, should we not follow their example and celebrate the event likewise? Now some critics may respond to this by arguing that if God wanted us to celebrate the events surrounding Christ’s birth, lavishly or otherwise, He should have clearly spelled it out for us somewhere in the scriptures. Well please forgive my bluntness, but are you really so dense that you can’t read between the lines of a passage like Luke 2:7-20 and see that we *shouldn’t need* to have something like this spelled out for us? In fact, I might go as far as to say that we ought to feel insulted if God felt the need to spell out something like this more clearly.

[@CaptainBars]

@@gabriel08607 ​ @gabriel08607 Did you know that out of all the appearances made by angels in the Bible, the Birth-of-Christ story is the only one where they appeared in a great multitude giving praise and glory to God in the presence of humans? For even in the accounts of Christ’s resurrection, only two angels appeared to the women to give the Good News, and even then, oddly enough, they said nothing about giving praise and worship. We can further observe that in all other accounts of angelic appearances to humans (not counting prophetic visions and dreams), the angel either appeared by himself or came with only one other, and they likewise never made praises to God. So when seeing how Christ’s birth is seemingly the only event which the angels made a big splashy production out of, should we not follow their example and celebrate the event likewise? Now some critics may respond to this by arguing that if God wanted us to celebrate the events surrounding Christ’s birth, lavishly or otherwise, He should have clearly spelled it out for us somewhere in the scriptures. Well please forgive my bluntness, but are you really so dense that you can’t read between the lines of a passage like Luke 2:7-20 and see that we *shouldn’t need* to have something like this spelled out for us? In fact, I might go as far as to say that we ought to feel insulted if God felt the need to spell out something like this more clearly.

[@CatholicCanada23-vi5rx]

@@gabriel08607 It's called Tradition. Thank the Holy Catholic Church for compiling the books of the Bible!

[@steveguti6452]

Jesus Christ died for our Sins according to the scriptures and that he was buried and that he rose Again the third day praise God praying for everyone Everyday God bless you all...

[@ThaGirlLaLaLa]

That’s the Gospel, Amen!

[@SolitaryReaper666]

Now prove it

[@lovepeople951]

🎄 Merry Christmas, everyone 🎄

[@steveguti6452]

Wishing everyone a happy blessed merry Christmas celebrating the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ praise God praying for everyone Everyday God bless you all....

[@user-mv2tg8hc8c]

In general, Christmas isn’t celebrated as beautifully and as reverently as it used to be but it is still and always be the celebration of Christ’s birth, my Lord!

[@michaelburdi421]

This is wonderful to know where these traditions come from! Thank you so much for this!

[@rogermetzger7335]

Entirely accurate (so far as I know) except for the puritans’ reason for not celebrating Christmas. Yes, seventeenth century puritans not only “refused to celebrate Christmas”, they prohibited its celebration, not because they thought it trivialized the holiday’s religious message but because they insisted that only biblical instruction should be the basis of Christian faith and practice and they didn’t find any instruction in the Bible regarding Christmas. Not only that, but the puritans took Hebrews 10 to mean that the sacrifice of Jesus was once for all time and once for all the elect.* The Scottish Reformation in the 1560s led to the celebration of Christmas being deemed too excessive. In 1640, the Scottish Parliament outlawed Christmas celebrations. Presbyterians in the United States didn’t celebrate Christmas until the mid nineteenth century - in some cases not until the twentieth century. In 1647, the English Parliament banned the celebration of Christmas and replaced it with a day of fasting. The ban, however, was very unpopular and it was ignored by most of the English. I once saw a list of denominations that didn’t celebrate Christmas in the United States until the mid nineteenth century. It included methodists but I didn’t find that list when I looked for it just now. There were other denominations on that list but I think the methodists - and probably most of the others - began celebrating Christmas in the mid or late nineteenth century. Clement Moore’s 1823 poem, A Visit From St. Nicolas may have had something to do with an increased interest in Christmas in the nineteenth century but Charles Dickens’ 1843 novel, A Christmas Carol, depicted Ebenezer Scrooge as the embodiment of all opposition to the celebration of Christmas. I think that novel had more to do with English-speaking people celebrating Christmas in the late nineteenth century and onward than any other one factor. *My dad was born in 1905 and raised in the Roman Church. In his catechism classes, he was taught that the Mass was a sacrifice - a reenactment of the sacrifice of Jesus and that Christmas was “Christ’s Mass. When he discovered Hebrews 10 in the 1920s, he responded in much the same way as the puritans had - i.e. he stopped thinking of Christmas as a Christian holiday. Which is why dad, in the mid twentieth century, explained much of this history to me. Dad, however, strenuously objected to the puritans imposing civil penalties for the celebration of Christmas and Dad didn’t object to the use of Christmas trees or gift giving in December.

[@mileslong9675]

I was surprised to find out that St Nicholas is from Bari, Italy. I went there last summer, and visited the cathedral. Bones of old St Nick are still there. A beautiful church, and a wonderful town to visit.

[@edz1624]

Jesus Christ the Savior was born to the Virgin Mary in fulfillment of the Scriptures (Old Testament) for all our sins.

[@SolitaryReaper666]

Your celestial santa isn't real

[@hesdeadjim66]

Merry Christmas everyone!

[@pacarter7169]

According to a different version of St. Nicolas, he was a young or middle aged man- who made toys, but was said he delivered the gift through the fire place… but dressed in black not in red. But he was wealthy and gave money (secretly) when a situation was in need. Then later tales of him became exaggerated and the concept of “magic” was eventually applied. The tree came another time as well as gift giving.

[@BoundyMan]

Whether you view Christmas as a Christian, Pagan, or Secular Holiday, we can all agree it's a celebration of the Winter Solstice, the shortest day and longest night of the year, after which the days start to get longer. Let us use this day to remember that Jesus is the new light in the darkest times of our life.

[@walterdebnam8021]

I really, really like this Brother , and his teaching. Thank You for doing this 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[@rutht2023]

Thanks for your videos.

[@Malohta]

Next: The history of Hanukkah told by a Catholic guy.

[@Black70Fastback]

now bring us some figgy pudding.

[@mgithaiga1]

Merry Christmas

[@SHARKVADERS]

PRAGERU!!!!!

[@SongOfSongsOneTwelve]

Thanks!

[@bosse641]

Love Christmas

[@frederickkneuss3367]

Actually, most ancient civilizations, from Egypt to Assyria, Aztec and even Native American along with ancient Greeks worshiped a sun God. When the light of day became its shortest, a sacrifice be made( sometimes a person) and miraculously, the day began to lengthen. As the Roman Catholics began to expand, it ran into stiff resistance from the Pagan sun worshippers. So as to attempt to win them over, Christmas was invented. It actually doesn’t sound a bad idea. To slowly bring them in. But as warned to the Jews in Exodus NOT to mingle with the Pagans, because they would be led astray, most of Christianity now follows the Pagan celebration. Which has lead to so many incorporations of Pagan ways into western culture. Scripture calls it an abomination. Whether one believes that or not, it is written there. Right in the New Testament. To not believe is to CHOOSE your own values. In essence, to do as the crafty serpent said -to be god. And they ask-why does God allow evil? 🧐 PS. Most experts agree Jesus the perfect human was born in the fall. Probably September.

[@eznight25]

No, Christmas is not pagan and Christmas does **not** have any pagan origins. All that we have to do is to look at the actual **historical record** and we will find the historical facts of: * Jesus was probably not born on December 25th. However, the early church (long before emperor Constantine) had an odd belief that a prophet would die on the same day as their conception. They believed that Jesus died on March 25th, thus counting forward 9 months they landed on December 25th. * Observation of the December 25th date of Jesus's birth by Christians goes back at least as far as AD 202 by Hippolytus of Rome in his Commentary on Daniel. This is long **before** any pagans were celebrating anything on December 25th. * It wasn’t until 274 AD, 72 years later, that Roman Emperor Aurelian proclaimed a celebration of Sol Invictus, and no clear evidence that this celebration took place on December 25th until 354 AD on the **Philocalian Calendar** * Prior to the emperor Constantine, there is absolutely no historical evidence of any pagan god allegedly being born on December 25th and there is absolutely no historical evidence of any pagan celebration on December 25th. The Christians recognized December 25th as Jesus' birth day in the early 200’s. It’s Not until 354 AD **after** Constantine, on the **Philocalian Calendar**, that we see any pagan deity allegedly being born on December 25th and/or celebrated. Nor do we find any pagan Sun worship on December 25th until **after** Constantine, on the **Philocalian Calendar** * Saturnalia was celebrated on December 17th and **sometimes** lasted for 3 days. It was **never** celebrated on December 25th until **after** the Christians were already recognizing December 25th as Jesus' birthday as we see on the **Philocalian Calendar**

[@11T872]

Pagan custom 100%

[@eznight25]

Incorrect

[@11T872]

@eznight25 yeah, 25 December is also from pagan culture.... Jeremiah 10 1 read yourself...

[@11T872]

@eznight25 there is no date in book of when Yashua was born, that's totally in relevant

[@alanstewart6895]

Gifts: You might wander this as the origin. Merry Xmas all. According to the Bible, the three wise men, or Magi, brought gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh to baby Jesus

[@jeffhamilton9867]

this is on of the best PragerU "history" Videos yet. I thank God for using this to enlighten us to the history changing event that we celebrate.....the birth of His son the LORD Jesus Christ. Merry CHRISTmas!! ;)

[@MatthewDavila-r9l]

Not many strive to be pure like the Puritans anymore?

[@JonBGreen91]

When even Neil deGrasse Tyson is not willing to use the BCE Dating system, it's not worth changing anything. Unless you're going to mark a new change in history, and you might as well use the system that's been used for the last 2000 years. The current date is December 23rd, AD 2024. Unless you want to use the Jewish calendar, which legend has it marks the beginning of the world.

[@freedom4me777]

I wonder if this will tell the true story of the history of Christmas. I doubt it.

[@JonBGreen91]

Unless you're talking about the manger, I don't think anyone cares.

[@BibleDrew]

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[@vr-4-559]

I notice how this doesn't tell about its correlation to the pagan holiday "saturnalia." So Satan has tricked the world into worshipping on a pagan day and not a day God has chosen.

[@lauriegoin]

Amen and Amen 🙏

[@billykidd5658]

It was the name of the holiday was not after Satan it was after Saturn the Roman high god of the Roman

[@OutWestRedDirt]

You're clueless, a stellar pawn of Satan. Winter was chosen because it symbolizes Christ came when we were in the darkness of our sin, winter is darkest time of the year. Satan copies God. God doesn't copy Satan.

[@OutWestRedDirt]

Stop bringing Satan into everything.

[@OutWestRedDirt]

That's a lie. Winters dark days symbolizes our darkness of sin.

[@NoBody-yy8rk]

Wrong

[@radioflyer68911]

I love Christmas, but even I know shepherds weren’t abiding in the fields, keeping watch over their flocks by night in the cold of winter. There’s something fishy going on in Bethlehem.

[@OutWestRedDirt]

Shepard's are with their flocks, no matter what time of year or day it is. Like God is with us no matter the time of year or time of day. There's something fishy with your thinking.

[@CaptainBars]

Many times, the opponents of Christmas have claimed that there is a remark in the Talmud indicating that sheep were put out to grass in March and brought back into the city at the beginning of November where they were kept in corrals during the winter months. However, in most speeches or writings where this claim has been made, the writers/speakers don’t actually quote the Talmud directly, nor do they provide a chapter and verse number so that their audiences could look up the passage for themselves. Why do you suppose that is? The answer, apparently, is not that such a verse is nonexistent, but that the verse in question, Babylonian Talmud - Beitzah 40b, can only appear credibly applicable when it is ripped out of its proper context. For when referring back to the final paragraph of Beitzah 40a, the reader will see that although the “pasture animals” were “led out about the time of Passover” to “graze in *more distant* meadows” and were then “led in at the time of the first rainfall” (i.e., October-November), they are not reported here to have been brought back into the actual city. Rather, only the “household animals” are reported here to have been led out to “graze outside the city-border” and then returned to “spend the night inside the city-border.” Beitzah 40a then further states that after the “pasture animals” were led out to graze, they did “NOT return to the habitation of men either in summer OR IN WINTER.” (The phrase “habitation of men” is clearly a reference to the city’s inner-dwelling places). Instead, when the early rains began, these animals would have obviously been brought in from the “more distant” meadows and simply been put into folds and kept in closer, more NEARBY fields so the shepherds would have easier and faster access to the city’s resources. And since the thrust of Luke 2:8 implies that the shepherds were keeping the night-watch in such a particular nearby field, as opposed to being out in the “more distant” meadows, one may conclude that winter was in fact the season when Jesus was born. (Note: While certain English translations render this verse to state that the shepherds were in the same “country” as the manger, this word can have both a broader or tighter meaning and can easily be interchangeable with more specific words like “countryside” or “region” as per other English Bible versions). Seeing then how the Talmud actually supports that shepherds WERE outside watching their flocks in winter, and that it even goes so far as to lend credibility to a winter-birth viewpoint, is it any wonder that those who claim the opposite rarely, if ever, quote their source?

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