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The Regulative Principle of Worship and Christmas - Brian Schwertley (Reformation Quote)

"Christmas was not celebrated by the apostolic church. It was not celebrated during the first few centuries of the church. As late as A.D. 245, Origen (Hom. 8 on Leviticus) repudiated ...the idea of keeping the birthday of Christ, "as if he were a king Pharaoh." By the middle of the 4th century, many churches in the Latin west were celebrating Christmas. During the 5th century, Christmas became an official Roman Catholic holy day. In A.D. 534, Christmas was recognized as an official holy day by the Roman state.The reason that Christmas became a church holy day has nothing to do with the Bible. The Bible does not give the date of Christ's birth. Nowhere in the Bible are we commanded to celebrate Christmas. Christmas (as well as many other pagan practices) was adopted by the Roman church as a missionary strategy."

- The Regulative Principle of Worship and Christmas by Brian Schwertley FREE BOOK or on the Puritan Hard Drive.

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- Jim Dodson, Reformed Presbyterian Scholar, https://www.covenanter.org/