I'm not sure if we celebrate Christmas because of Christ''s b-day or tradition. Maybe that's why Jehova witnesses don't celebrate Christmas.
2006-12-07 08:56:50 · 15 answers · asked by SuperSkinny 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
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2006-12-07 09:01:45 · answer #1 · answered by Danny B 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't say that anywhere in the bible. The mass for the Christ is a celebration brought on by the early fathers of the Roman Catholic denomination. It was this denomination that was the strongest of the Christian faith that picked this day to celebrate the coming of the Messiah. It isn't necessarily a birthday; it more a day to commemorate the coming of the Christ Jesus, the saviour of the world.
Actually the scholars of the bible think that the Messiah was more than likely born in June,or July.
2006-12-07 09:05:20 · answer #2 · answered by the old dog 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-17 23:06:28 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dec. 25th is near the winter solstice, one of the shortest days of the year in the northern hemisphere. Christ's birthday is celebrated on this long, dark day to symbolize the "light of the world" coming in to bring us from the darkness. So, it is based on tradition and earthly seasons, not scripture.
There are other religions that celebrate a similar tradition of a festival of light near Christmas.
2006-12-07 09:03:27 · answer #4 · answered by angiesmom32 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Jehovah's Witnesses (some in my family) don't celebrate Christmas because the giving of gifts to each other would be saying that we are equal to Christ. Same reason they don't do birthdays. As in, the wise men gave gifts to the Christ child, if we give gifts to each other, for Christmas or a birthday, we are saying that we should be honored as Christ was.
2006-12-07 09:06:18 · answer #5 · answered by DisIllusioned 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Roman Catholic Church fixed the date of Christmas to coincide with a traditional Winter Solstice holiday celebrated by Northern European pagans. They figured it was a way of allowing converts to have their Solstice Celebration but dress it up with a Christian Theme.
You'll find a lot of Holidays are arbitrary like that - coinciding with some pagan ritual they were attempting to supplant.
Seems to have worked out pretty well too....
2006-12-07 09:00:42 · answer #6 · answered by jbtascam 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't say that Jesus was born on December 25th in the Bible. I am not sure how that day was chosen. It isn't so much about the date as it is the meaning behind the celebration.
2006-12-07 09:01:28 · answer #7 · answered by amylynn25 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The current calender did not exist during the birth of Christ.. The bible was written long after the birth. The birth date and some pagan holiday were the same day and they let it go like that.
2006-12-07 09:05:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nowhere in the bible is the date of Jesus' birth, or the birthdate of any apostle. Clearly, birthdays are not related to true worship. Jehovah's Witnesses are Christians; they teach that Christ was and is Divine and of the same nature as God.
Jehovah's Witnesses teach that no salvation occurs without Christ, that accepting Christ's sacrifice is a requirement for true worship, that every prayer must acknowledge Christ, that Christ is the King of God's Kingdom, that Christ is the head of the Christian congregation, that Christ is immortal and above every creature, even that Christ was the 'master worker' in creating the universe!
Jehovah's Witnesses love and respect and honor Christ. They do NOT celebrate so-called "Christmas" because "Christmas" does NOT celebrate Christ; "Christmas" celebrates the pagan Saturnalia. Jesus was not even born in December. Nearly all so-called Christmas customs dishonor Christ.
http://watchtower.org/e/19981215/article_02.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20001215/
http://watchtower.org/e/20041215/article_01.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/19981215/
http://watchtower.org/e/rq/article_11.htm
By contrast, it's tragic that the one holiday Christ actually *DID* ask Christians to commemorate is entirely ignored by almost all of Christendom. It is, of course, the Memorial of Christ's death, sometimes called "the Last Supper" or "the Lord's Evening Meal".
(1 Corinthians 11:23-25, NWT) The Lord Jesus in the night in which he was going to be handed over took a loaf... Keep doing this in remembrance of me.” 25 He did likewise respecting the cup.. Keep doing this... in remembrance of me.”
(1 Cor 11:24, 25, NEB) "Do this as a memorial of me.”
Christ Jesus himself personally celebrated and explained the significance of that Last Supper to his followers (see Matthew 26:26-29). Christians who commemorate the Last Supper have done so on the same Jewish calendar date as Jesus did, Nisan 14, which generally falls between late March and mid-April. Interestingly, Christians in the centuries immediately after Christ's impalement were sometimes called "Quartodecimans" which literally mean "Fourteen-ers", because the early Christians were well-known for this true holy day.
How would Jesus feel to learn that the holiday he commanded was widely ignored, while his so-called followers chose to celebrate a pagan false god and their own traditions of men? We don't need to wonder.
(Matthew 15:6-9) You have made the word of God invalid because of your tradition. 7 You hypocrites, Isaiah aptly prophesied about you when he said, 8 ‘This people honors me with their lips, yet their heart is far removed from me. 9 It is in vain that they keep worshiping me, because they teach commands of men as doctrines.’”
Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/lmn/article_08.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/rq/article_11.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20041215/article_02.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20011115/article_02.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20050101a/
http://watchtower.org/e/jt/
2006-12-08 04:27:08 · answer #9 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't, but when christianity came over to our places -Europe-, we were celebrating the return of the light on December 25th. (That is the day that the days become longer again instead of shortening.) And they thought: "well, WHO's the light?!" TADAAA!! They turned our heathen party into a christian one!
2006-12-07 09:01:29 · answer #10 · answered by jee! 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The date was chosen to replace the pagan holiday that was at that time... like all saints day and halloween
2006-12-07 09:01:50 · answer #11 · answered by Ana Erikson 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋