If We Know Jesus Was Not Born Dec. 25th, Why Celebrate Chrsitmas?

Question

Why exploit such a blessed even by commercializing it when we should make every effort to get togehter with famly on other days during the year and sharing gifts should be something we do whenever able or inclined?

It has actually been a well known fact that Jesus was born in the Spring or Summer months, due to the fact that shepards do not flock their sheep in the winter nor could a mother give birth under freezing cold temperatures.

Answer 1

From my observation of American culture, Christmas celebrates flying deer pulling fat men in red suits not Jesus.

Answer 2

The particular date of December 25th which is actually the week of a Pagan holiday known as the Winter Solstice.

The Winter Solstice, historically known as Midwinter, occurres around December 21 or 22 each year in the Northern hemisphere, and June 21 or 22 in the Southern Hemisphere. It is the shortest day and the longest night of the year, when the sun is at its greatest distance from the equatorial plane. Worldwide, interpretation of the event varies from culture to culture, but most hold a recognition of rebirth, involving festivals, gatherings, rituals or other celebrations. Many cultures celebrate or celebrated a holiday near (within a few days) of the winter solstice; examples of these include Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Years, and many other festivals of light.

Answer 3

Yes, the Christmas most western nations celebrate is a mixture of Saturnalia (the Roman festival for the god Saturn) and the pagan Winter solstice.
But people of nearly every culture celebrate a winter holiday and need an excuse to go beyond the everyday. True every day should be celebrated, but for most of us we get dragged down with the mundane. Holidays are a time dedicated to escape the drudgery and force our employers to ggive us some more time with the family.

Answer 4

Not all of us do.

Exploit Christmas that is.

I think the exploitation of Christmas is largely for the secular world. Not so much for Christians.

I have a lot of non-religious relatives. They don't believe in Christ, but they buy a lot of big expensive gifts for their families.

Compare that to the devout Christians. Who go to church services. Spend ours in prayer. And most often give home-made gifts of cakes, or bread, or hand knit sweaters.

It's up to the few of us who "get it" to spread the word. I stopped putting up a big Christmas tree after seeing the movie Therese. They just had a manger. With some pine around it.

Now that's what I do. Just Baby Jesus.

Answer 5

The real purpose of Christmas is to brainwash innocent children into believing that impossible myths are really can come true and that those who truly believe impossible myths will be richly rewarded. The Catholic Church chose December 25th as the official date in 221 AD. December 25th was chosen because it's exactly nine months after March 25, the date that God supposedly impregnated the Virgin Mary.

Answer 6

purely people who do no longer question something have self belief Jesus birthday is Dec. twenty 5th. Others purely settle for it for the relaxing. Has everyone relatively afflicted to question how Jesus feels approximately any of this? if so, why did he on no account rejoice his very own beginning? He taught his disciples and that they taught many others. Why did none of those rejoice his beginning for better than 2 hundred years after his loss of existence? The Bible does make sparkling God's organic worship is on no account to be polluted with pagan fake worship. As Ephesians 5:10-11 evidently says, to make certain of what's suitable and stop sharing in works belonging to darkness. The date of December twenty 5th is from pagan Roman faith. it particularly is the two a occasion of the Roman god of agriculture and the god of the sunlight worship. the two occurred on December twenty 5th. each and everything else related with the holiday is likewise from pagan origins. Do you think of drunken events giving wrapped presents take place by using fact of Christmas? No. they're component of those Roman gods gala's. If we heavily learn the Bible information, we come across Jesus grow to be approximately 6 months youthful than his cousin, John the Baptist. this might placed his beginning sometime approximately September, while shepherds could be outdoors with their sheep. in spite of the incontrovertible fact that the Bible is obvious approximately many stuff that are important for Christian followers of the actual God, the date besides as training to rejoice Jesus' beginning isn't there.

Answer 7

Christmas (as it is celebrated in the US) has a sacred component and a secular component. If Christians can keep these two in their proper order and proportion, I don't see the harm in sharing a joyful season, giving gifts, or even taking the kids to see Santa.

You do have one good point - family should not be something that is only treasured at the "holidays."

Answer 8

Dec. 25 was originally a Pagan holiday. The tree, the decorations, the gift giving, the mistletoe, the freakin' YULE log ... all Pagan.

Christians took over and decided to make it their own.

Answer 9

Actually Christmas is celebrated Dec.25th because of solstice. When Christians were ridding the world of all pagans they tried converting the ones they didn't kill by adopting and changing their holidays.

Answer 10

The tradition of celebrating the birth (or rebirth) of a sun (either as in, "I am the Light" or the literal sun) god at the Winter Solstice goes back at least 20,000 years. It is the oldest holiday celebrated by humans.