Does Christmas have some kind of link to Jesus?

Answer 1

No. No direct link at all. It was not his birthday. It wasn't even a Christian Holiday till after the Roman Catholic Church began to celebrate next to Pagans in hopes of getting converts (which right here shows me that the persecution they claim that went on, was not as wide-spread as they would like us to believe). They ended up taking Pagan traditions from things like the Roman Saturnalia and other cultural traditions for Solstice celebrations that Pagans had during that time of year (Yule falls on the 1st day of Winter and was usually celebrated for about a week).

As for the Xmas thing... the X was a Greek symbol, Chi Rho, which meant "good passage" in many Greek writings. It was later used as a symbol for Christ. Some say it's the cross turned on it's side and meant to show the defeat of Christ... but I have yet to find any such thing in history that relates to that at all.


Hope this helped

Answer 2

The popular answer " No" is actually nearly right.....

given how the various calanders were designed it is in fact impossible to narrow the birth of Jesus down to a single day let alone on in December (although there actually is proof of Jesus's existance)

The Festival of Christmas follows in the tradition of Easter of surplanting Pagan festivals. The festival of Christmas has been rather judicially placed to replace the pagan festival of Satanalia (not anyting to do with Satan i'm afraid). it is the pagan festival for Winter...... The Easter Celebrations demonstrates this trend more clearly, Christians do not assign any importance to the phases of the moon therefore why have a Festival on the first sunday after the Full moon.....other then to replace a pagan celebration (in this case the Pagan Spring Celebration).

That being said Christmas is always a special time of reflection. and although I (and now you) understand the placement of the Festival. I always treat it as if Jesus had been born on Christmas (otherwise it is pointless having the festival at all)

sadly for most people the most important thing is receiving presents, for Christians the emphasis is diferent. the joy is in communal Fellowship (even if you can't bear your inlaws).

Try going to Midnight mass (with an open mind) and you may surprise yourself at how wonderful Christmas can be.

Answer 3

Christmas was a festival day for the pagans. It was only adopted by the "Christian" community to celebrate the birth of Jesus. NO, it is NOT the actual day of Jesus' birth. It is not written in the Bible anywhere. The season of Jesus' birth is clearly noted in the Bible. The season was more than likely around the Fall.
Again, the birth of Jesus is not the day we Christians celebrate (December 25th)

Answer 4

Good question.

The Bible is silent about the date of Christ's birth whereas it specifically commands the remembrance of His death.

It also points out the importance of the day of your death as against the day of your birth :

Ecclesiastes 7/1, A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth.
v8, Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof....

God's ways are generally opposite to man's. And for good reason.

Christmas has only a tenuous link with Jesus, a link made and promoted by men.

It is hard to see Jesus in amongst all the worldliness of Christmas, including the rather worldly visible church.

Still if you want to celebrate you are free to do so but it does rather tend to detract from His death which is the all important event.

So I suppose there is some kind of link but I am sure it is one that He would want to reject.

Answer 5

Originally no. In the days of early Christianity, the Church "adopted" several Pagan festivals so the local peasant folk would join in, without feeling as though they had abandoned their old ways. The main ones being Saturnalia and Yule. There is no evidence that Jesus was born on this day. In fact, there is no solid evidence he even exisited let alone what his true birth date was. All knowledge of him is based on second and third hand "eyewitness" accounts.

Answer 6

no longer a great deal. December the twenty 5th is Mithras's birthday and incidental he died and alter into reborn 3 days later. Mithras exchange into the religion that a large variety of the roman military believed in so whilst Constantine desperate to undertake Christianity because of the fact the stable roman faith it exchange into solid politics to apply a similar day for Jesus's birthday and no person can argue as no person is accustomed to whilst Jesus exchange into born. it is likewise the pagan pageant or yule or saturnalia whilst human beings fed on what nutrients they won't take care of over wintry climate

Answer 7

Jesus Christ and the bible knows not one thing about
Christmas but it is a tridition but has a lot of pagan in it, we do IF your doing it to honor Jesus it is called CHRIST-MAS, by the way we as Seventh Day Adventist Christians worship on The Seventh Day Sabbath which is Saturday not the first day of the week and THAT DOES have a link to Christ big time, study more free bible lessons www.itiswritten.com God bless.

Answer 8

Only in name. It's not his real birthday. A pope at one point in time decided the best way to get people to stop celebrating pagan holidays was to change them into "Christian" holidays. The original Christians didn't celebrate the birth of Christ as it wasn't so much important that he was born, the important thing was he died and returned.
It's funny, because people who claim it was Jesus' birthday really don't read. Read your bibles people, and read a history book, you might learn something. Jesus would have been born in late Spring if you read the first two gospels. And Xmas isn't disrespectful, X is the Greek symbol for Christ.

Look, I'm not knocking it, this is all true, look it up. Read a book. I can't stress that enough. Use your brain.

Answer 9

Friend - Christmas is the time when most mainline Christians celebrate the birth of Christ. Yes, we know its not the exact correct date, may not even be close, used to be a pagan holiday, is over-commercialized, includes Santa (spelled Santa) and the mirade of other comments you will receive...but its the day we choose to celebrate the birth of Christ and has continued to be so for 2,000 years give or take a couple. GBU

Answer 10

Jesus Christ was born on Christmas, that's the whole reason it exists today. CHRISTmas.