2007-01-09 05:21:27 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
December 24th, or Christmas Eve if you celebrate that holiday
2007-01-09 05:25:36 · answer #1 · answered by ivegotmadskillz_001 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is an extremely long answer for what might seem to be a very simple question. I have chosen to reply this way because there is such widespread misinformation about this subject. Some have already stated that Jesus Christ was born on December 25. That is absolutely not true.
Most people here call it "Christmas Eve Day." It is absolutley not the day before Christ was born. If you think it is, you need to do some reading about this.
No one knows the day that Christ was born. It is very widely accepted that it was in September or October. Many hundreds of years ago the officials of the Christian church set it as December 25.
One of the reasons they chose that particular day is it was the day of a particular pagan holiday that the church leaders wanted to eliminate. They were offended by any pagan holiday, but the people loved this holiday. It was a very fun holiday and they wouldn't just drop it.
The church people chose to substitute another joyous holiday to replace the pagan one. This allowed the people to keep a fun holiday and to get more involvement in the Christian Church's religion.
True Christians will not be offended by this reply. They recognize that to celibrate His birth is what is important. The exact day is not important, since it is unknown.
Some very main stream Christian churches also do not accept December 25 as the day to commemorate Christ's birth. The Greek Orthadox Church celebrates it in early to mid January. This is because they use a lunar calandar rather than the Julian calandar.
The Julian calandar was instituted by a Roman, i.e. pagan, emperor. The lunar calandar was in use during Christ's time. It is still used by the Greek Orthadox, as well as some other religious organizations.
The Seventh Day Adventists refuse to celibrate Christmas because it is not the true birth date of Christ. They are also offended by the fact that the other religious organizations were perpetrating a falsehood by telling people it was his actual birth day when they very well knew it was not true.
The majority of the world's population also do not celebrate this day because they do not believe that Jesus Christ was the Messiah. Some religions believe that a Messiah was promised, but that promise has not yet been fulfilled.
2007-01-09 22:46:25 · answer #2 · answered by DSM Handyman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christmas Eve 24th December
2007-01-09 13:28:50 · answer #3 · answered by Arizona Brit 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
December twenty-fourth
or
Christmas Eve day
or
Sunday (in 2006)
2007-01-09 13:50:49 · answer #4 · answered by Becky 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that we say the name of this day in the following way: The twenty-fourth of December
2007-01-09 14:13:55 · answer #5 · answered by Dreamer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christmas Eve
or the day before Christ was born
2007-01-09 13:51:23 · answer #6 · answered by loopyloo5 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's Christmas Eve if you're Christian. It's the day before baby Jesus was born.
2007-01-09 15:08:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Christmas Eve Day" is acceptable
2007-01-09 13:29:03 · answer #8 · answered by mariahsdad 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
christmas eve?!
2007-01-09 13:29:51 · answer #9 · answered by i'minGr8shape 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋