Why do Christians fail to witness God when time like the following comes? but they rather compromise?

Question

Isaiah: 43:10-12 says, you are "THE WITNESS" to prove that "I am the Lord your God, and there is No other God than me berofe and there will not be any"

When the whole world merge their faith in celeberating "Chritmas" why dont christians stand up and witness God that this day is not of Jesus Christ, and Christ has nothing to do with this day, everything that involve in this festival is a paganic origin and Satan plays the vital role in deviating christians from worshiping their true God.

Answer 1

I agree, I dont celebrate xmas, just a little hard on my kids, everybody does it, they are to small yet to understand.

Answer 2

But you misunderstand! Christians did not deviate from the true meaning!This day was set up to worship Jesus's birth.We all know it is not His real birthday,but we use this to share love & His word & truly worship & be thankful for Him.
Money mongers & greedy people turned this sacred time into a commercialized pagan ritual,not real Christians!
By my statements i am standing up for God!He is in my heart & I do not celebrate the same as a non-christian.

Answer 3

Because not all Christians see it that way, either spiritually or emotionally. God knows our hearts, and if in your heart you feel this way about Christmas, than be true to that. But please don't ask us all to agree. Any day is a good day to remember Jesus and what his birth meant to all of us, and why can't Christmas, with the whole world turning it's attention to that event, be a good time to witness for God?

Answer 4

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.

(Jeremiah 10:2-5) This is what Jehovah has said: "Do not learn the way of the nations at all... 3 For the customs of the peoples are just an exhalation, because it is a mere tree out of the forest that one has cut down, the work of the hands of the craftsman with the billhook. 4 With silver and with gold one makes it pretty. With nails and with hammers they fasten them down, that none may reel. ...the doing of any good is not with them."

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/

Answer 5

well people do do alot of santa things but i am a new beliver in god and we are celeberating in him not in the santa this year but people do need to wake up and remember it is a birthday of him and to just think of him on this day

Answer 6

CHRISTMAS SYMBOLIZES THAT JESUS HAS OVERCOME SATAN. LOTS OF PAGANS BECAME CHRISTIANS THAT DAY!! :D