• Fringe Flashback! Is Christmas a Pagan Holiday? - Naked Bible Podcast with Dr. Michael Heiser

  • Dec 22 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
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Fringe Flashback! Is Christmas a Pagan Holiday? - Naked Bible Podcast with Dr. Michael Heiser

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  • ORIGINAL AIR DATE: DEC 25, 2017

    There is much discussion online at this time of year as to the presumed pagan origins of Christmas. December 25, we are told, was a date stolen from pagan worship, specifically from the festival of the “Birth of the Unconquered Sun” (Sol Invictus). Should Christians have Christmas trees? Aren’t trees pagan objects of worship? How should Christians think about, and respond to, such questions? Do these questions have any relationship to the content of Scripture? Listen to find out.

    Links and sources:

    William Tighe, “Calculating Christmas: The Story Behind Dec 25” Touchstone Magazine (December, 2003)

    Thomas J. Talley, The Origins of the Liturgical Year (The Liturgical Press, 1991)

    Aaron Gleason, “How Christmas Baptizes Norse Mythology into Powerful Christian Archetypes,” The Federalist (December 15, 2017)
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