{"id":20933,"date":"2024-11-29T13:04:19","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T13:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=20933"},"modified":"2026-09-21T15:32:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T15:32:06","slug":"santa-claus-in-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/nl\/learn\/santa-claus-in-the-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"Staat de Kerstman in de Bijbel? Nee, hij is voortgekomen uit Sint-Nicolaas van Myra"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cppw-protected cppw-protected--overlay\"><div class=\"cppw-excerpt cppw-excerpt--overlay\"><p>Santa Claus is not in the Bible. He grew out of Saint Nicholas, a fourth-century bishop of Myra, a town in what is now southern Turkey. His name comes from Sinterklaas, Dutch for Saint Nicholas, and the figure of Santa took its modern shape in the United States in the nineteenth century. Is Saint Nicholas in the Bible? No. Neither Santa Claus nor Saint Nicholas appears anywhere in Scripture. Nicholas lived some three centuries after the apostles, and what is\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall paywp-paywall\" data-required-level=\"25\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"cppw-lock-mark\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t<h2>Continue reading with a subscription<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<p>Get unlimited access to all our premium content and exclusive features.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall__actions\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-button wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/nl\/become-a-member\/\">Subscribe now<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-login-link\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/nl\/login\/\">Already a subscriber? Sign in<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"cppw-paywall__microcopy\">Enjoy unlimited access, cancel anytime.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Claus is not in the Bible. He grew out of Saint Nicholas, a fourth-century bishop of Myra, by way of the Dutch Sinterklaas and 19th-century New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[210],"series":[209],"class_list":["post-20933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-education","tag-christmas-series","series-christmas"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18847,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/nl\/learn\/nicholas-in-the-bible\/","url_meta":{"origin":20933,"position":0},"title":"Is Nicholas in the Bible? Yes, Spelled Nicolas, in Acts 6","author":"Christian Pure Team","date":"februari 9, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes, in another spelling: Nicolas of Antioch, one of the seven chosen in Acts 6. 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