why christmas is celebrated?

Answer 1

OUR OLD GENERATIONS MADE SOME FESTIVAL TO CELEBRATE IN DIFFERENT RELIGION IN DIFFERENT WAY BUT THE MAIN OBJECTIVES TO ENJOY THE DAY WITH YOUR RELATIVES AND FRIENDS.

Answer 2

Some celebrate, and don't even know why. We are actually supposed to give honor to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords because of His being born. Many people say, we give gifts to remember the day that God gave our world the greatest gift of all. The wise men from the Orient brought Jesus gold, frankencense and myrrh as gifts honoring His birth and who He is. Nowadays, it is more of a holiday to pad the pockets of retailers and businesses than a true rememberance of the real reason for the season. The best gift we can give is remembering the King who came to show God's love for one and all.

Answer 3

Um..... I think the primary reason is to stimulate the economy but I believe we still hide behind the "Jesus's Birth" story :(

If you watch "South Park", Christmas is to celebrate the day that Jesus Christ gave his life to save Santa Claus.

Damn, I love that show.

Answer 4

Basically it is because it is the day that Jesus was born and the 3 Wise Men visited him and gave him gifts. It's my Catholic point of view, check the website below it explains a bit historically. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas

Answer 5

Aside from birthdays, it is about the season of giving. That's why the presents exchange, which was a symbol by Jesus giving life to save sinners. Amen.

Answer 6

it really was a pagan holiday but to get mor followers consantine put the celebration of jesus bloody h christ on that day.

Answer 7

Because it is the Birthday of Christ= CHRISTmas.

Answer 8

I don't want to get into all this religious stuff but it is about Jesus Christ and stuff. That is why they call it CHRISTmas.

Answer 9

everone knows we celebrate christmas for the birth of christ!!! key word there... CHRISTmas!!

oogalah

Answer 10

What is the Reason for the Christmas Season?
How was CHRISTmas celebrated BEFORE Christ's Birth?
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The Ghosts of Christmases Past

As the last of the Thanksgiving dinner left-overs are sent out to the trash, and the background music at stores and malls switches to sounds of the season. The advertisements hit us with full force, and even our news programs remind us of how many shopping days there are until Christmas. And the yearly lament rises up from Christian circles, "Whatever happened to the old-fashioned Christmas? It's all become so crass and worldly." So out come the bumper stickers and T-shirts with slogans like:

Let's put Christ Back in Christmas
Jesus is the Reason for the Season

Most Christians are convinced that Christmas has been corrupted in recent times by all the "worldly" people in our American society. They yearn for what they feel must have been the "good old days"- perhaps in the time of the "Waltons," or at least farther back, in the days of "Little House on the Prairie." The holiday would have been "holy." Families would gather around the hearth to hear Dad read the Christmas story. "Worldly" amusements and revelry would have no place in that simpler time. It would just be hymn-sings around the popcorn-bedecked fir tree.

So let's check this nostalgic picture against the historical record. Let's trace just when Jesus was the "Reason for the Season." Surely if we go back 100 years we'll find a holier Christmas:
This is the time of the year
When people most remember CHRIST!

But we need to remember Him always!
And remember what this day stands for!

John: 3:16 For God so loved the world
that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes
in him should not perish but have eternal life.
17 For God sent the Son into the world,
not to condemn the world, but that the world might
be saved through him. 18 He who believes
in him is not condemned; he who does not believe is
condemned already, because he has not believed in the
name of the only Son of God.
was standing in the doorway of a department store a few Christmases ago, enjoying a lovely nativity scene in a store window, when a mother and her little girl came hurrying by. Catching a glimpse of the beautiful scene, the child grabbed her mother's hand and exclaimed, "Mama! Mama! Please let me stop for a minute and look at Jesus!" But her mother replied wearily that they weren't even half through with their shopping list and didn't have time to stop--and walked on, dragging her disappointed daughter behind her.

The child's words rang in my heart for a long time after that. Please let me stop for a minute and look at Jesus. I thought of all the minutes that had sped by me that busy Christmas in the mad rush of life that is accelerated at the height of the shopping season. How many minutes had I spent shopping and buying presents and preparing decorations and food in the great wind-up to Christmas, and how many had I spent with the One whose birth and life is the true meaning of this celebrative season?

Jesus is always so very close to us. He is "at our right hand" and "closer than a brother" (Psalm 16:8; Proverbs 18:24). He is within speaking distance. His birth is the essence of Christmas. His gifts to all--peace, love, and joy of heart--are the essential magic of Christmas. With arms outstretched He holds out these gifts to us and says, "Come to Me. I will give you rest. Learn from Me, and you will find rest for your souls" (Matthew 11:28-30). But these we will never receive if we forge on, endless shopping and to-do lists in hand, too busy to stop and even notice He's right there.

Why don't we stop and enjoy--really enjoy--what Christmas means? Cut down our task lists and enjoy the beauty.

Like the old saying, "Dew never falls on a stormy night," we rarely experience the sweetness and joy of time spent with Jesus while in an anxious and feverish rush of accomplishment. But the dew of Heaven and the blessings of Christmas fall peacefully on our hearts and lives when we stop for a moment to get quiet and remember Him. To go on without Him is forfeiting the only real, lasting joy and perfect love that can be experienced in this life and shared forever.

Why don't we stop and enjoy--really enjoy--what Christmas means? Cut down our task lists. Enjoy the beauty. There are so many wonderful things about Christmas and so many beautiful things to see. It would be a shame to miss it all, wrapping this and wrapping that, rushing for this last thing and that, cooking and preparing so much for a feast, cluttering our Christmas with so many unnecessary things. And should we not stop to enjoy anything of life until after Christmas, the fury with which we proceed will send us reeling into the New Year sighing, "I just survived Christmas!"

Jesus came to bless our lives. That is why we have Christmas. He said He came to bring us life, and that we might have it more abundantly (John 10:10). And the apostle Paul tells us, "We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ" (Romans 5:1). Peace and life in all their fullness need not elude us. They are ours to enjoy this Christmas if we'll give Jesus a chance in our lives and a place in our hearts.

Let me take a minute with Jesus. The true presence of Christmas is found with Him. Let the celebration of His birth touch my heart in a new way this year. Let me learn more about the gifts He gave me so long ago on Christmas. Let me be a part of Christmas itself by being more like Him. Let me stop and look at Jesus.

* * *

Dear Jesus, I want each day that comes
To share some part with You,
Where I can sit, receive Your peace,
And hear You speak to me.

A place where I can turn aside
And leave the cares of life,
Where I can get the strength I need
To banish storm and strife.

A quiet, serene, and trusting place
Where You alone can give
The very blessing that I need
Here would I rest and live.
On December 25th we celebrate the birth of Christ