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2006-09-15 17:26:24 · 8 answers · asked by Kappa 1 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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100

2006-09-15 17:36:57 · answer #1 · answered by NickJr 2 · 0 0

Actually Christmas has 12 days & Hanukkah has 8 or 9 so the answer is Christmas has either 3 or 4 "more days" than Christmas.
If you meant to ask how many more days are there until Christmas Day, I have no idea.
If you really want to know check a calendar. Make sure it's a 2006 edition.

2006-09-15 18:07:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

100 in the eastern time zone because it's after midnight and 101 in the rest of the US. Merry Christmas!!

2006-09-15 17:31:21 · answer #3 · answered by Annie Red Head 3 · 0 0

Contrary to popular belief Christmas is celebrated starting on december 25th and goes until January the 6th(Epiphany).

2006-09-15 17:30:53 · answer #4 · answered by dom316 3 · 0 0

What does it matter? Its a totally pagan holiday anyways. It hasn't got anything to do with Jesus Christ anyways.

The date is wrong:
The New Catholic Encyclopedia acknowledges: “The date of Christ’s birth is not known. The Gospels indicate neither the day nor the month . . . According to the hypothesis suggested by H. Usener . . . and accepted by most scholars today, the birth of Christ was assigned the date of the winter solstice (December 25 in the Julian calendar, January 6 in the Egyptian), because on this day, as the sun began its return to northern skies, the pagan devotees of Mithra celebrated the dies natalis Solis Invicti (birthday of the invincible sun). On Dec. 25, 274, Aurelian had proclaimed the sun-god principal patron of the empire and dedicated a temple to him in the Campus Martius. Christmas originated at a time when the cult of the sun was particularly strong at Rome.”—(1967), Vol. III, p. 656.

The "Magi" or Wise Men were actually Astrologers sent from the east.
(Matt. 2:1, 2, NW; NE) Although astrology is popular among many people today, the practice is strongly disapproved in the Bible. (See pages 144, 145, under the main heading “Fate.”) Would God have led to the newborn Jesus persons whose practices He condemned?

Matthew 2:1-16 shows that the star led the astrologers first to King Herod and then to Jesus and that Herod then sought to have Jesus killed. No mention is made that anyone other than the astrologers saw the “star.” After they left, Jehovah’s angel warned Joseph to flee to Egypt to safeguard the child. Was that “star” a sign from God or was it from someone who was seeking to have God’s Son destroyed?

Note that the Bible account does not say that they found the babe Jesus in a manger, as customarily depicted in Christmas art. When the astrologers arrived, Jesus and his parents were living in a house. As to Jesus’ age at that time, remember that, based on what Herod had learned from the astrologers, he decreed that all the boys in the district of Bethlehem two years of age and under were to be destroyed.—Matt. 2:1, 11, 16.

What about gift giving and Stories of Santa, etc..?

The practice of Christmas gift giving is not based on what was done by the Magi. As shown above, they did not arrive at the time of Jesus’ birth. Furthermore, they gave gifts, not to one another, but to the child Jesus, in accord with what was then customary when visiting notable persons.

The Encyclopedia Americana states: “During the Saturnalia . . . feasting prevailed, and gifts were exchanged.” (1977, Vol. 24, p. 299) In many instances that represents the spirit of Christmas giving—an exchanging of gifts. The spirit reflected in such gift giving does not bring real happiness, because it violates Christian principles such as those found at Matthew 6:3, 4 and 2 Corinthians 9:7. Surely a Christian can give gifts to others as an expression of love at other times during the year, doing so as often as he wants to.

Depending on where they live, children are told that gifts are brought by Santa Claus, St. Nicholas, Father Christmas, Père Noël, Knecht Ruprecht, the Magi, the elf Jultomten (or Julenissen), or a witch known as La Befana. (The World Book Encyclopedia, 1984, Vol. 3, p. 414) Of course, none of these stories are actually true. Does the telling of such stories build in children a respect for truth, and does such a practice honor Jesus Christ, who taught that God must be worshiped with truth?—John 4:23, 24.


"But what if we just do Christmas for the FUN of it and don't have anything to do with the Religious part of it??"
Look at it this way then--Suppose a crowd come to a gentleman’s home saying they are there to celebrate his birthday. He does not favor the celebration of birthdays. He does not like to see people overeat or get drunk or engage in loose conduct. But some of them do all those things, and they bring presents for everyone there except him! On top of all that, they pick the birthday of one of the man’s enemies as the date for the celebration. How would the man feel? Would you want to be a party to it? This is exactly what is being done by Christmas celebrations.

Does it make you think any differently about Christmas? Do you ever stop and think of all the LIES you perpetrate and keep repeating to your children when you teach them about Christmas? Your children, your innocent children that you want to teach to love and to TRUST you, and here you go lying to them about their Lord and Savior. How can you Honestly expect them to grow up later and have any faith in him at all? No wonder the last few generations are having less and less faith in Christ and God - its because of parents who lie to them about them and say that fat, old men in flying sleighs give them stuff, Not their own loving parents. That the blessings in their life are from Santa and not from God . Why do people keep lying to their children?

Teach them the truth about Jesus Christ and his Heavenly Father who sent him and WHY he did so. Tell them the truth.

2006-09-15 17:42:05 · answer #5 · answered by heatherlovespansies 3 · 0 0

A little over 3 months. Hope you're not on the naughty list this year!

2006-09-15 17:35:47 · answer #6 · answered by Sass B 4 · 0 0

why? do you wanna complain that your so persecuted again because people are saying something else instead of your garbage of merry MYTHMAS

2006-09-15 17:28:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I heard if you don't believe in Santa, you go to Oz.

2006-09-15 17:36:29 · answer #8 · answered by lenny 7 · 0 0

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