We all know it is a pagan holiday don't we?
Jesus is not the reason for the season.
2006-12-25 02:30:04 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You are correct. One person asked why all the fuss and to get over it, others think it is okay because it has been this way for 1700 years.
Well if a person is a true Christian they should get upset because God condemns people for observing pagan holy days and claiming them as God's. Read the Old Testament and you find God punished Israel for this many times for observing pagan days and claiming them as their own for God.. Do you really think he will allow Christians to do what he condemns?
As for the 1700 years, pagans have celebrated this day for many thousands of years many more times than Christians, so that argument does not hold water. It was the birth of may pagan gods thousands of years before Christ was born. So by this measure it is still pagan because pagans celebrated it much longer. The problem with this logic is they forget that God will punish those who observe pagan days. That means for 1700 years Christians have fellowshipped with and approved of pagans celebrations. Do Christians really want to do this?
I thank it is funny because I am pagan and Christians are just as pagan as I am because of what they believe and what they practice, but they do not even know it.
2006-12-25 03:01:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually what Christians are celebrating is the Incarnation of the 2nd person of the Holy Trinity. Most of the people you think are Christians are actually part of this or that sect. As for Dec. 25, it was as you say a pagan holiday, that's why it is celebrated at that time. Now the Christian celebration has supplanted the pagan celebration, as planned. Do you see a Winter Solstice Break? or Winter Solstice Sales? Nope! Seems the Christians won this fight!
2006-12-25 02:39:00 · answer #2 · answered by mpup 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Correct yet very incorrect. Only those who truthfully understand and hold into consideration the fact that Christmas is a pagan holiday, abide not to follow in error.
It is evident that the great majority choose not to compromise tradition....but carry this belief into the next generations to follow. I believe the significant reason primarily symbolizes the nature of the needing to bond with others such as family and/or friends; where in this case you can't abolish such traditions.
It's a choice that individuals make and to each his own.
2006-12-25 02:38:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't think any Christians insist that it's Jesus' actual birth date, but we do insist on celebrating His birth, life and defying death. Even when the angels told of Christ's birth they said they were bringing good tidings of great joy. Mary was told to rejoice at being chosen as mother of Jesus. Jesus should be celebrated everyday.
God Bless you and Merry Christmas.
2006-12-25 02:39:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus has become the reason to still celebrate it - so what's the problem? Its been this way for at least 1700 years - I think its well established this is the day his birth is celebrated. That a Christian insists that it actually is his day of birth is another issue - that person is a little off - and I am being kind.
Good Luck!!!
2006-12-25 02:33:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
we do know that many paganly celebrate it.
we do know there were and are other religions with their celebrations also in December.
And most Christians acknowledge that the birthday of Jesus MIGHT have been on some other date.
However, the fact celebrated at Christmas, Dec. 25th, is the fact of the Incarnation; Emmanuel -- God with us.
Jesus is the Reason for EVERY season.
We celebrate the FACT that He Came ... and just as sure as He came, so He is Coming Again -- but this time He is Coming to Reign!
2006-12-25 02:38:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Professing Christians don't isist that December 25th is Christ's birthday. It's just one day out of the year we set aside to celebrate the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ.
2006-12-25 02:35:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
So-called "Christians" pretend and celebrate regarding December 25th and Christmas because they are more interested in their own pleasures than in truly honoring Christ.
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/
2006-12-26 08:00:27 · answer #8 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree, I don't celebrate this pagan occassion either. Self-satisfaction is the reason for the season.
2006-12-25 02:47:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I really don't know why Christmas seems to bother so many people, Christmas is what it is, the celebration of Jesus' birthday and the date 25th of December, is an arbitrary date, don't make such an issue out of it. Rejoice with us and be happy for it is the message of love that we celebrate!
2006-12-25 02:35:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋