If I am not mistaken, God came to the earth in human form. That form being Jesus. On December 25th we celebrate Jesus's birthday. Are we not really celebrating the coming of God?
2006-12-24 16:34:58 · 16 answers · asked by Rick R 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
NO
Christmas predated the Christian era by many centuries. It began with Nimrod, grandson of Ham the son of Noah, a wicked, ruthless dictator, responsible for the great organized worldly apostasy from God that continues to this day. In contempt for God and all decency Nimrod married his own mother, Semiramis. After his untimely death, his mother-wife, Semiramis, taught the lie that her husband-son was a spirit god. She claimed a full-grown evergreen tree sprang overnight from a dead tree stump, which symbolized the springing forth to new life of the dead Nimrod. She taught that on the anniversary of his birth, which was December 25, Nimrod would visit the evergreen tree and leave gifts upon it.
Nimrod became worshiped as the “divine son of heaven,” “the Messiah, son of Baal the sun-god.” Devil-worshiping pagans believed that life and immortality proceeded from Nimrod, and so they worshiped the never-dying sun in the heavens as the personification and representation of Nimrod’s “divinity.”
How, then, did these pagan customs become a part of the greatest “Christian” holiday, Christmas? The Catholic Encyclopedia makes the following admission: “Christmas was not among the earliest festivals of the Church. Irenaeus and Tertullian omit it from their list of feasts.” When apostate Christians began to fall away to pagan practices, Tertullian complained: “By us, who are strangers to Sabbaths, and new moons and festivals, once acceptable to God, the Saturnalia [and other pagan feasts] are now frequented, gifts are carried to and fro, . . . and sports and banquets are celebrated with uproar.”—Gal. 4:10, 11; Col. 2:8.
In an effort to gain pagan converts the Roman Catholic clergy in the fourth century after Christ at the Council of Nicea governed by Emperer Constantine took in this pagan Saturnalia on December 25 and sponsored it as the “mass of Christ” or “Christ-mass.” Christmas, therefore, is nothing more than a carbon copy of the pagan Saturnalia. This is generally admitted by historical and religious scholars. Says a world history, On the Road to Civilization, page 164: “The feast of Saturn, the Saturnalia, was a winter festival which lasted a week beginning on the twenty-fifth day of December, and was celebrated with dancing, the exchanging of gifts, and the burning of candles. The Saturnalia was later taken over by the Christians as their Christmas, and given a new significance.”
Christ was never in Christmas, nor was Christmas ever in Christ. More apropos and in line with Christian principle would be the slogan: “Away from Christmas and back to Christ.” Simply to label the pagan Saturnalia as Christian does not make it so. A wolf does not become a lamb simply because we call it such. No, nor does Christmas become Christian because professing Christians take part in its celebration.
2006-12-24 17:16:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nooooooo, the person who was born on December 25th was a huge black man, who lived in the time of Noah. His name was Nimrod, and they called him The Sun God. (Incidentally, he also married his own mother, how gross is that?) So you can understand why people have mistakenly said that the Son of God was born on the 25th. Christ was born at the end of September, maybe early October. The shepherds could not have had their sheep out in the middle of winter, and in case you didn't know, December is in mid-winter in the Middle East.
Christmas is therefore, nothing whatsoever to do with our Saviour, is it? And yes, He did come to earth in human form. The One who became Christ is the Hebrew God of the Old Testament.
2006-12-24 16:50:23 · answer #2 · answered by kiwi_mum1966 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
actually we are celebrating a pagan holiday of winter's coming. no sheperds would let there sheeps out at night. Jesus was born in spring. Jesus was a prophet not god. God walking (coming to world) in human form part was stolen from greek culture. sounds familiar how all the god's Mercury, Hera, and all of them could walk the earth in human form....
2006-12-24 16:37:57 · answer #3 · answered by Love Exists? 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
We are celebrating Jesus,the Son of God
2006-12-24 16:36:43 · answer #4 · answered by J♥R♥R 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I celebrate birthdays and I even celebrate I got up happy today day. I do not need much of anything to start a celbration.
2016-05-23 05:09:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, you're celebrating the birth of Mithras, the Pagan solar deity of Mithraism.
...and the truth shall set you free...
2006-12-24 19:30:10 · answer #6 · answered by Lady of the Pink 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not just God, but God in the flesh and when Jesus was baptised God let the everyone know that Jesus was His son in whom He was well pleased
2006-12-24 16:38:01 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No you are not celebrating Jesus' birhtday. No one knows when Jesus was born. You are actually celebrating the birth of Timuz, son of Nimrod, and Ethiopian ruler.
2006-12-24 16:37:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
we really are celebrating the birth of Jesus.....no the coming of god....
2006-12-24 16:37:19 · answer #9 · answered by i ♥ Javon!!! 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Heck yes we're celebrating the birth of god.
The god Mithras, of course.
2006-12-24 16:37:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋