The date of December 25 for Christmas was already popular in pagan religious celebrations as the sun’s birthday.
The word Christmas comes from the Catholic denomination, which is Christ-mass. A Mass service is sometimes called Communion or Eucharist.
Luke 2:7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
Luke 2:8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
The shepherds were in the field watching their flocks when Jesus was born.
Since December is cold and rainy in Judea, the shepherds would have sought shelter for their flocks at night.
With those scriptures, Jesus may have been born in summer or early fall.
Christmas was banned in some parts of America from 1659 to 1681.
The roots of the Christmas traditions come from the ancient Celts called the winter solstice.
Druids, the priestly class in ancient Celtic society, celebrated the festival of Yule. The Druids decorated the evergreen trees at Yule to their Goddess.
Scriptures in the Bible sound like a modern-day Christmas tree.
Jeremiah 10:1 Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
Jeremiah 10:2 Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
Jeremiah 10:3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the ax.
Jeremiah 10:4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
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