Things About Christmas
That You Thought
Were True But Are
100% WRONG

It’s The Most WONDERFUL Time Of The Year!” and while we all love Christmas, there are several things that we have been led to believe about Christmas that are completely incorrect:

• JESUS WASN’T BORN IN DECEMBER — because there were shepherds in the fields. Scholars think it was most likely September
  
• SHEPHERDS DID VISIT JESUS IN THE MANAGER WHEN HE WAS BORN — but…
  
• THE WISE MEN CAME WHEN JESUS WAS AROUND TWO YEARS OLD — manger scenes of shepherds & wise men adoring Jesus are wrong which is why Herod had all boys 2 years old and under killed.
  
• THERE WERE NOT THREE WISE MEN — That’s what a traditional Christmas carol says. Scripture doesn’t say how many.
• A LARGE CARAVAN ACCOMPANIED THE WISE MEN — Scholars think they came from Persia, and such a distance could not be achieved without a large caravan with significant resources.
  
• WHY CELEBRATED ON DECEMBER 25th? — In 274 BC, Roman emperor Aurelian established a feast of the birth of the Unconquered Sun god Sol Invictus on that day, and early Christians conscripted this day to encourage the spread of Christmas and encourage pagans to be open to both the holiday and honor the birthday of Christ.
  
• SANTA IN A RED SUIT — dates back to a 1931 CocaCola ad campaign.
  
• SAINT NICHOLAS, though canonized by the Catholic church, has no written documentation validating that he actually existed, but popular tradition is that he was from Turkey.
  
• THE PERSON OF SANTA IS ACTUALLY TRACED BACK TO A CARTHAGINIAN DEITY — this was a huge bronze idol whose fat swollen belly was an oven, and whose arms were extended making a LAP or ALTAR to which parents brought their children, and laid them on that lap to be roasted alive. (and)
  
• SANTA IS GIVEN GOD-LIKE CHARACTERISTICS — of being all knowing, and able to be everywhere at every time.
  
• REARRANGE THE LETTERS IN SANTA — and you get SATAN!

Nevertheless, let’s celebrate that
JE SU S * IS * TH E * R EA SO N * F OR * TH E * S EA SO N !!!

God Bless Your Day
Jesus Loves You

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