True Worship or False Tradition

In my past I used to believe that I was honoring and worshiping Jesus while celebrating Christmas, however after several years and a lot of study, I no longer believe that Christmas has anything to do with the True Messiah that is written about in the Bible.  Most people hold on to this holiday because of long held happy feelings because of the tradition that they learned from their parents.  (Remember these are the people that also told you there was a Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny and took you Trick-or-Treating.)  For us to actually learn where this traditional holiday really comes from we MUST step out of our feelings and emotions and actually study Scripture and History to allow the Lord to show us if what we are following is of HIS Ways or not.  Some of the things that really challenged me was; the word itself, "Christmas" or Christ Mass.  I am not Catholic, so what have I to do with partaking of "Mass".  We are brought up believing that this holiday celebrates His birth, but simply within the word "Christ Mas(s), we see it has to do with His death.  If we take the time to do a word study on Christmas, we find that it means Christ's death or sacrifice.  In context, 'Mass' [mas] is a noun meaning "the celebration of the Eucharist", which is the believed partaking of the actual flesh of the body of Christ.  Yes, this sacrament from Catholicism is that the little cracker or wafer actually becomes His flesh within the person partaking of it. 

There are Biblical Time-line studies that prove that Yeshua (Jesus) was not born on Dec. 25, but during the Fall Feast of Sukkot ( Feast of Tabernacles).  A study of Mithraism, shows us that it was Tammuz who was born on Dec. 25.  With this knowledge, we must ask ourselves, where in the Bible does it tell us to remember or celebrate the birthday of our Messiah?  What about the Christmas Tree and what it symbolizes... Like it or not it is a fertility symbol and if you knew what garland, tinsel, and the balls etc. are; you would be embarrased to have it in your house.  There is more, but you get the general idea.  Some will say that it doesn't hurt anything to celebrate Christmas because GOD knows our heart and he is happy to accept our worship through this holiday.  To this, I point you to a couple of Scriptures..  Jeremiah 10 and Leviticus 10.  Notice that Nadab and Abihu wanted to Worship the LORD with incense and in their heart and mind they were doing what was right, however HE didn't accept their "worship" and HE destroyed them because of their error.  So, for me, just the little bit of evidence that I have given here should be enough to cause the Believer to dig deeper and challenge their traditions..  Here is a link to several studies on the subject that can be helpful.
http://otbg.blogspot.com/search?q=christmas
To those who read this, I hope that you know that it is written with Love and understanding and if it makes you upset at me, I understand, but I will say that your fight is not with me, but with GOD..  Go ahead and Wrestle with HIM just like Jacob did and don't be afraid to ask HIM for a Blessing..  I hope that you will read the following verses from the Bible and then do as the Bereans did by searching the Scriptures to see if these things be so.  Acts 17:11... *** Malachi 3:6-7;  Jeremiah 26:13, Isaiah 8:20..*** John