Does it make any sense to celebrate Jesus' birthday? Isn't Jesus God along with Holy Spirit and always was?

Question

How can Jesus have a birthday if he is part of a Trinity that always existed even before the beginning of time? It just doesn't make any sense.

Answer 1

The only birthdays celebrated in Bible are two, at the first one, a man was hung to death, the other one John the Baptizer got his head cut off. Also Jesus was not born on December 25.

Now as far as the Trinity is concerned, there is no such thing.

‘But isn’t Jesus called a god in the Bible?’ someone may ask. This is true. Yet Satan is also called a god. (2 Corinthians 4:4) At John 1:1, which refers to Jesus as “the Word,” some Bible translations say: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” But notice, verse 2 says that the Word was “in the beginning with God.” And while men have seen Jesus, verse 18 says that “no man hath seen God at any time.” (Authorized or King James Version) So we find that some translations of verse 1 give the correct idea of the original language when they read: “The Word was with God, and the Word was divine,” or was “a god,” that is, the Word was a powerful godlike one. (An American Translation) Clearly, Jesus is not Almighty God. In fact, Jesus spoke of his Father as “my God” and as “the only true God.”

Did Jesus ever say that he was God? No, he never did. Rather, in the Bible he is called “God’s Son.” And he said: “The Father is greater than I am.” Also, Jesus explained that there were some things that neither he nor the angels knew but that only God knew. (Mark 13:32) Further, on one occasion Jesus prayed to God, saying: “Let, not my will, but yours take place.” (Luke 22:42) If Jesus were the Almighty God, he would not have prayed to himself, would he? In fact, following Jesus’ death, the Scripture says: “This Jesus God resurrected.” (Acts 2:32) Thus the Almighty God and Jesus are clearly two separate persons. Even after his death and resurrection and ascension to heaven, Jesus was still not equal to his Father.


As for the “Holy Spirit,” the so-called third Person of the Trinity, this is not a person but God’s active force. John the Baptizer said that Jesus would baptize with holy spirit, even as John had been baptizing with water. Hence, in the same way that water is not a person, holy spirit is not a person. (Matthew 3:11) What John foretold was fulfilled when, following the death and resurrection of Jesus, holy spirit was poured out on his followers gathered in Jerusalem. The Bible says: “They all became filled with holy spirit.” (Acts 2:4) Were they “filled” with a person? No, but they were filled with God’s active force. Thus the facts make clear that the Trinity is not a Bible teaching. Actually, long before Jesus walked the earth gods were worshiped in groups of three, or trinities, in places such as ancient Egypt and Babylon.

Answer 2

The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit -- one God.

The Father -- SPIRIT
The Son -- SPIRIT
The Holy Spirit -- SPIRIT

Co-Eternal.

HOWEVER, when God became Incarnate (9 months before the birth of Jesus at Beit Lechem) then He also had a "birthday" as a Human .... for, remember, ever since the Incarnation Jesus has been fully God AND fully Human.

It DOES "make sense".

Jesus, Who is from of Old, from Eternity has no beginning nor end.

Jesus, Who became Man, has a birthday.

Emmanuel -- God with us.

Answer 3

LOL Great question. The trinity is a man-made doctrine as is the celebrating of Jesus' birth on December 25th, so I guess if it is all just a lie and has nothing to do with the true God and his word, they can jumble it all up any way they want and it still won't make it true or right.

Answer 4

It is a celebration for God sending us his only son, Jesus.
It is a celebration of God becoming man. Jesus is one part of the Holy Trinity. He became man when he was born to The Virgin Mary and Joseph.
Some times you can not take things literally, and over think. You just take things as the are..............that is what Faith is all about.

Answer 5

Jesus, who existed from eternity as part of God, took on a human body, and was born into the world. That had never happened before.
Jesus lived a real human life, and became the sacrifice that paid for your sins and mine. Humans had sinned, and turned away from God, and a human had to pay the price.
But only God could bear everyone's sins. So he did.
This is not easy to understand, but don't turn away from it. God did for you what you could not do for yourself. Give yourself to Him.

Answer 6

Hi:

Good question. We must understand that Jesus is co-equal and co-eternal with God. He is God manifest in the flesh. As one that is eternal he has no beginning or end. However, he came into this world as a man, it is his birth as a man that we celebrate. As God he could not die, however, as man he could die for man, that is how he became the Savior.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Christians have been celebrating Jesus' birth and resurrection for centuries. It's just tradition.

Answer 9

we CELEBRATE the birth (not birthday) of Jesus, though Jesus IS infact God, he still came down in human form to save us from all of our sins. thats what we celebrate.

Answer 10

The new testiment said Jesus coded 8 noble behaviour; Anyone who sacrified himself to help others, will called son of god. Jesus did it. He is son of god. If you follow his statement, you will be called son of god too.