If you are not celebrating Christ's birth Dec 25th,what HOLIDAY are you celebrating?

Question

Is this a winter Holiday? Since when did it change from CHRIST (CHRIST)MAS. We have been celebrating his birth!

Answer 1

We Christians are celebrating His birthday and the rest just celebrate as everything is closed and hardly anyone working. Of course I think the pagans and the wiccans celebrate winter soltice and the Jewish faith celebrates Hanakah.
But as for me and mine we will rejoice in the in the Good News of our Saviors birth and being together.

Answer 2

HI, Way before Jesus ever existed there were these Solar Gods like Mithra, Jupiter, Zeus, Odhinn, Jolnik, etc. These gods all have one thing in common, they are all Sun Gods that have their birthdays on Dec 22nd. The Dec 22nd holiday is Winter Solstice. The Darkest day of the year where it's very dark for 3 days until the days get longer again on Dec 25th. Most of the traditions from Christmas come from these Pagan holidays.

I've included a few entertaining videos on the subject. Hope you enjoy. And have a great holiday season.

Answer 3

Christ, as he's called, wasn't actually born on Dec 25th, scientists reckon it was about June or July or something (I forget the actual month), they tracked the north star to see when it would have been in the proper possition to be over Bethlehem in 1 A.D. People are actually celebrating a pagan ritual for the winter solstice (did I spell solstice wrong? I think I did, oh well you know what I mean) The Romans changed it when they put together the Christian bible, it was easier to convert the pagens if the dates of the festivals/holidays coincided.

Answer 4

Calm down. I'm celebrating the birth of Mithras and the winter festival.
"For the church's first three centuries, Christmas wasn't in December—or on the calendar at all.
If observed at all, the celebration of Christ's birth was usually lumped in with Epiphany (January 6), one of the church's earliest established feasts. Some church leaders even opposed the idea of a birth celebration. Origen (c.185-c.254) preached that it would be wrong to honor Christ in the same way Pharaoh and Herod were honored. Birthdays were for pagan gods.

The eventual choice of December 25, made perhaps as early as 273, reflects a convergence of Origen's concern about pagan gods and the church's identification of God's son with the celestial sun. December 25 already hosted two other related festivals: natalis solis invicti (the Roman "birth of the unconquered sun"), and the birthday of Mithras, the Iranian "Sun of Righteousness" whose worship was popular with Roman soldiers. The winter solstice, another celebration of the sun, fell just a few days earlier. Seeing that pagans were already exalting deities with some parallels to the true deity, church leaders decided to commandeer the date and introduce a new festival"

Answer 5

this is just a holiday that was created to hide the true birthday of Christ. So one cannot be in the wrong for not celebrating a non-religious holiday that is nothing but commercialized sales.

Luke 2: 8: "And there were shepherds living out in the fields near by, keeping watch over their flocks at night."

In Palestine - as in the rest of the Middle East at the time - shepherds stayed with their flocks in the fields only from Spring to Autumn. They brought their sheep in during the winter to protect them from the cold and rain. It is thus unlikely that the shepherds went to Bethlehem in December.

The Bible does not mention the celebration of Christ's birthday, and the early Christians seem not to have celebrated His birthday. However, to avoid persecution, they would hang holly on their doors during December just as the Roman pagans did for Saturnalia, their feasts honouring their god of harvest. Likewise, in September, during the Jewish Feast of Trumpets (modern-day Rosh Hashanah), they would borrow some of the custom to protect themselves, carrying on with their own customs behind closed doors. This added to the speculation that early Christians celebrated the birth of Christ in September. It is noted that Jerusalem swelled from about 100,000 people to over 1 million during the Feast of the Trumpets, which meant that there would have been little room at the inns of Jerusalem and the surrounding towns.

So actually to celebrate Christmas is wrong and a lie. The Bible says not to lie or perform blasphemy...would this holiday not be considered blasphemy?

Answer 6

Hey! There's nothing wrong with celebrating ANY birthday.And if it gets people to act nice once a year, then all the better. And maybe you personally do celebrate it in a religious way, but take it to the bank, it ain't been a religious holidays for a vast part of the celebrants for a VERY long time. You've been away a long time, have you?

Answer 7

It may have been yule's day long long ago and Christ may not have been born on Dec. 25th exactly, but He was born and it is still Christmas. I'll be celebrating family, love, giving and life this Holiday. I hope all of you will too regardless of your beliefs.

Answer 8

I'm having a cool Yule, a sizzlin' solstice.

We were celebrating that a long time before the church decided that Christ was born on December 25. He wasn't, but if you want to celebrate it then, that's fine. Just don't go thinking that's the "reason for the season". The reason is far older that he is.

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Answer 9

I'm celebrating the Winter Solstice.

Which, by the way, people were celebrating *before* Christ's birth.

So if you're trying to claim some sort of longevity award...

Answer 10

surely the Pagan holiday is the wintry climate Solstice it relatively is widely known on the longest day of the three hundred and sixty 5 days. around December 21 or 22. ( observe: the day differences 3 hundred and sixty 5 days to 3 hundred and sixty 5 days.)It has no longer something to with the occasion of the start of jesus yuletide is often on the comparable day it relatively is the 23. additionally The Saturnalia ( december 17 - 23) honors Saturn and his spouse Ops. it relatively is the holiday that many christian traditions have been based. and prefer with the wintry climate solstice the dates substitute. We then see that this occasion commonly falls on December 25. hence the occasion isn't christian and is particularly Pagan so get your individual holiday and supply up attempting to assert that we rejoice Christmas for jesus' b-day. reason we don't you stole our holiday.