What does Santa have to do with the birth of Jesus?

Question

Who was Santa, where did he come from and how did he become part of Christmas? Also where did the Christmas Tree tradition come from, isnt there a part in the Bible that says "do not decorate trees in the ways of the pagans" Does this passage really exist, and where in the Bible is it?

Serious answers please, this is for a research paper. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me out.

Answer 1

Santa have nothing to do with with the birth of "Jesus". If you want to know facts and plain truth please visit http://yaim.org/ and do other research to verify what is written there.

Answer 2

Santa is a trditional legend from Europe that has been integrated into Christmas. Yes-- the bible (old Testament) does discuss not decorating trees. Jeremiah 10:1-14 condemns idolatry, and not Christmas trees which came into existance long after Christ was born on earth. Jeremiah here talks about the idolatry of carving statues and figures out of wood.

Answer 3

Santa has not one thing to do with Christmas.

For the history on the tree, I can leave that to others - lots of well-educated people are here.

.As an aside (but releveant), I notice that a lot of Christians here put the stress on the wrong part of that word - they write it as CHRISTmas, when they really ought to know enough about their own religion's history to know that it's the MASS part that's important (Christ's mass), the day spent in prayer, the day spent in church.

Yes, Virginia, most of the things Christians do on December 25th or thereabouts are entirely Pagan in origin. And sometimes I take a perverse pleasure in seeing them get all huffy 'bout what they consider THEIR holiday's trappings; the insistance on "Christmas tree" and so on.

When they really ought to be spending the day in church, and avoiding all those nasty bad Pagan customs.

*snicker*

Answer 4

yes that passage is in the bible.

you can look it up yourself at biblegateway.com

it is a really neat site. you can search the bible for any keyword and get all of the passages associated with it.

the christmas tree came from the Pagan Yule Celebration. but we would decorate living trees and decorate our homes with the trimmings of holly and the lower branches of an evergreen.

all christian holidays have more Pagan customs in them than they do anything that could be claimed as original.

and they are all placed over top of the pagan holidays that they were intended to replace. however the pagans just replaced the christian holidays with their own rituals and customs..

ever wonder why half of them worship a triune god?

Answer 5

You'll find many answers in this book:
"Two Babylons", by Alexander hislop..printed 1853/1858
http://philologos.org/__eb-ttb/sect31.htm
Quoted from above source:
"The festivals of Rome are innumerable; but five of the most important may be singled out for elucidation--viz., Christmas-day, Lady-day, Easter, the Nativity of St. John, and the Feast of the Assumption. Each and all of these can be proved to be Babylonian. And first, as to the festival in honour of the birth of Christ, or Christmas. How comes it that that festival was connected with the 25th of December?"

ALSO (very interesting)

"The Battle For Father Christmas’s Bones"
http://www.ianpaisley.org/article.asp?ArtKey=benedict1

Answer 6

The myth of Santa began in the USA in 1863, but the origins of Santa begin with St. Nicholas in the 3rd century.

http://www.stnicholascenter.org/Brix?pageID=35
http://www.stnicholascenter.org/Brix?pageID=40

The fir tree has a long association with Christianity, it began in Germany almost 1,000 years ago when St Boniface, who converted the German people to Christianity, was said to have come across a group of pagans worshipping an oak tree. In anger, St Boniface is said to have cut down the oak tree and to his amazement a young fir tree sprung up from the roots of the oak tree. St Boniface took this as a sign of the Christian faith. But it was not until the 16th century that fir trees were brought indoors at Christmas time.
http://www.christmas-tree.com/where.html

Answer 7

I think this is the passage you are talking about.

2Thus 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.

3For 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 axe.

4They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

Jeremiah chapter 10 vs 2-4
KJV

And Santa has nothing to do with the birth of Christ.

Answer 8

the 2 have nothing to do with each other. the church started putting jesus' bday or whatever on dec 25th to replace the celebration of the god mithras by the indigenous people of the day. santa claus was actually an old eurpopean saint that gave to the poor and hungry. and of course all of the other trappings came from different cultures around the world.

jesus was most likly born around august or september

Answer 9

All of our Christmas traditions come from our various past histories and it's become a bit of a jumble now.

I believe the first so called "Santa" started in Germany.

Secular tradition is separate from religious beliefs. What do eggs have to do with what Easter is supposed to be all about?

Santa had nothing to do with Jesus and nobody ever said he did.

Answer 10

You would get more complete answers by Google-ing this, rather than asking it here. Try wikipedia. You're not gonna get a lot of serious answers here, and in the time it took you to type the question, you could have found the answer.

Answer 11

Santa is a version of St. Nicholas, a saint from a long time ago in the fourth century or so who helped children basically. That is the derivation of Santa Claus, St. Nicholas.