Christams celebration?

Question

If the Christmas celebration has its roots in ancient Babylon would it be proper to celebrate it even though the Bible says that we must worship God with spirit and truth?
The celebration by the way started with the worship of Nimrod a man who te Bible says was in opposition to God. He constructed the tower of Babel

Answer 1

I will celebrate the birth of Jesus on Christmas, because we are not exactly sure when it was. I will not buy gifts and support the Godless stores who have taken Christ out of Christmas.

Answer 2

The Christmas celebration is a Christian holiday.Sure the ancient pagans worshiped on that day..But God created that day meaning it was his first.How do we know that the Pagans didn't rip the true believers day off?And also were the Shepards of the field wrong for celebrating the birth of Christ?(Luke Chapter 2)..I think not.God bless.

Answer 3

There is nothing wrong with celebrating and remembering our saviour but why do we have to do it on the pagan Winter Solstice! Or celebrate Easter which is another pagan holiday with no Biblical relevance.

Jeremiah 10:2 2 This is what the LORD says: "Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by signs in the sky, though the nations are terrified by them.

Especially when this was not Jesus's birthday to begin with. The quote below is refering to when Jesus was born.

"Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields," wrote one Gospel writer, "keeping watch over their flock by night" (Luke 2:8). A common practice of shepherds was keeping their flocks in the field from April to October, but in the cold and rainy winter months they took their flocks back home and sheltered them." (1)

Christmas was not celebrated untill 435 AD by Pope Sixtus III. He instituted this pagan holiday to make Christianity more acceptable to the pagans.

Jeremiah 10:3-5 For the customs of the people are vain: for it is but a tree which one cutteth out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not, ... neither ... is it in them to do good.

None of the current "Christian" holidays are biblical. Study the Bible and follow the holidays that God has appointed not man's holidays!

Here is more information about the Babylonian myths and how they have become entangled with the church.

http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-t020.html

Answer 4

most Christian Churches celebrate Christmas. we emulate the three wise men by giving gifts to others at this time of year and have in our own way a Birthday Party to honor HIM. although sad to say THE REAL REASON FOR THE SEASON seems to have gotten lost in all the commercialization and money making involved in this Holiday.

Answer 5

300 years after Christ died, many people worshiped the sun, as they felt a strong dependence on its yearly cycle. Elaborate ceremonies accompanied sun worship in Europe, Egypt, and Persia. The central theme in these festivals was the return of light. The sun, because of its seeming weakness during winter, was implored to return from ‘distant wanderings.’ Festivals included merrymaking, feasting, dancing, decorating homes with lights and ornaments, and gift-giving. Do these activities sound familiar?

Sun worshipers believed that the unburned wood of a yule log had magic powers, that bonfires could give the sun-god strength and bring him back to life, that houses decorated with evergreens would scare away demons, that holly was to be worshiped as a promise of the sun’s return, and that sprigs of mistletoe could bring good luck if worn as charms. What celebration are these items associated with today?

December was a major festival month in pagan Rome long before Christmas was introduced there. The week-long Saturnalia (dedicated to Saturn, the god of agriculture) and the Dies Natalis Solis Invicti (Birthday of the Unconquered Sun) took place at this time. Also, December 25 was regarded as the birthday of Mithras, the Persian god of light.

In an effort to convert these pagans, there was an unscriptural blending of Christian beliefs with pagan ones, and so the church chose a date for Christmas that coincided with the most important pagan festival. And what of Christmas customs? The Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics admits that most Christmas customs “are not genuine Christian customs, but heathen customs which have been absorbed or tolerated by the Church.” It was apparently felt that simply giving these customs a Christian facade would Christianize those who took part in them.

However, instead of Christianizing paganism, these customs paganized Christianity. During the 1600’s, the Puritans became so disturbed over the obviously pagan nature of Christmas that the holiday was outlawed in England and in some of the American colonies. Penalties were exacted for celebrating Christmas or just staying home from work on Christmas Day. In New England (U.S.), it was not until 1856 that Christmas was legalized.

But there is one factor about Christmas that is more important than how the church, or the pagans viewed it in the past. Of primary concern to true Christians is how does Jesus Christ view Christmas?

If a celebration was to be held in your honor, would not your approval of its nature be of importance? Therefore, we do well to ask: Does the Bible indicate how Jesus views traditions steeped in paganism?

Jesus condemned religious leaders who compromised pure worship to gain converts. He said to such leaders: “You [travel] sea and land to make a single convert, and then you make him twice as ripe for destruction as you are yourselves.”—Matthew 23:15, Phillips.

Conversion was not to be accomplished by blending pagan and Christian beliefs. Paul, an apostle of Jesus, wrote to Christians living in Corinth: “You cannot be drinking the cup of Jehovah and the cup of demons.” (1 Corinthians 10:21) And in his next letter to them, Paul added: “Don’t link up with unbelievers and try to work with them. . . . How can there be harmony between Christ and the devil?”—2 Corinthians 6:14, 15, Phillips.

If a conscientious mother saw her child pick up candy from a sewage-filled gutter, she would insist that he get rid of it immediately. The thought of his eating it—even touching it—repels her. Christmas, though sweet to many, has been picked up from unsavory places. Jesus’ sentiments match those of the prophet Isaiah, who urged true worshipers of his day: “Turn away, turn away, get out of there, touch nothing unclean.”—Isaiah 52:11.

Therefore, true Christians today do not celebrate Christmas. While their position may seem strange to others, they view traditions as did Jesus. When asked: “Why is it your disciples overstep the tradition of the men of former times?” he replied: “Why is it you also overstep the commandment of God because of your tradition?” And he added: “You have made the word of God invalid because of your tradition.”—Matthew 15:2, 3, 6.

True Christians today manifest unity with Jesus by practicing “the form of worship that is clean and undefiled,” untarnished by the pagan traditions of men.—James 1:27.