Christmas - Questions We Are Asked - Herbert W Armstrong - October 1983

Herbert W Armstrong

About this time each year our Personal Correspondence Department receives - and answers numerous inquiries regarding the coming holiday season. Here are just a sampling. I've heard you say on your television program that Christmas observance does not come from the Bible. Where does it come from, then? Where Christmas customs came from is really no secret. You can read the origins of Christmas customs in encyclopedias and other reference works. The Encyclopedia Britannica, for example, draws the reader's attention to these facts: "Christmas customs are an evolution from times that long antedate the Christian period - a descent from seasonal, pagan, religious and national practices, hedged about with legend and tradition" (15th ed., art. "Christmas"). - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library