Yes kids, we lied about Santa, but Jesus is for real?

Question

Should I cry? I don't want to start doubting the existance of Jesus Christ?!

Jesus loves me, and I lost, not gained five points for this question. God bless!

Answer 1

Prepare yourself... Not only are Santa and Jesus not real but The Easter Bunny, The Tooth Fairy and God aren't real either...

**** Hands Thomas a box of tissues, let it all out, it's best you hear it all at once instead of prolonging the upsets....

Answer 2

The story of Santa is made up by real events that happened and still happen to this day. . Even though the character is fictional, (north pole, reindeer that fly, going down chimneys). There was a man who gave gifts during the holiday season to the poor children in his village. We still do it today (Elf Louise, Blue Santa, Angel tree)

There should be no reason for the story of santa claus to cause doubt in your belief in Jesus Christ. Jesus was a real man, there are records of him existing ( In history and world civilization books) people just question if Jesus was really the son of God.

Answer 3

The quality of the New Testament documents can be validated outside of the Bible through the research of Josephus Flavius, Tacitus, Caesar's Gallic Wars, Herodotus, and Thucydides. In fact there are 5366 documents discovered so far to validate that the Bible we have today is 99.5% as accurate as it was way back then. For example:

The first-century Jewish historian Josephus referred to the stoning of “James, the brother of Jesus who was called the Christ.” (The Jewish Antiquities, Josephus, Book XX, sec. 200) A direct and very favorable reference to Jesus, found in Book XVIII, sections 63, 64, has been challenged by some who claim that it must have been either added later or embellished by Christians; but it is acknowledged that the vocabulary and the style are basically those of Josephus, and the passage is found in all available manuscripts.

Tacitus, a Roman historian who lived during the latter part of the first century C.E., wrote: “Christus [Latin for “Christ”], from whom the name [Christian] had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus.”—The Complete Works of Tacitus (New York, 1942), “The Annals,” Book 15, par. 44.

With reference to early non-Christian historical references to Jesus, The New Encyclopædia Britannica states: “These independent accounts prove that in ancient times even the opponents of Christianity never doubted the historicity of Jesus, which was disputed for the first time and on inadequate grounds by several authors at the end of the 18th, during the 19th, and at the beginning of the 20th centuries.”—(1976), Macropædia, Vol. 10, p. 145.

Internal evidence is pretty clear as well. 2 Peter 3:15-16 clearly states that the canon was already in the process of being collected for what we have today in the Bible. There were gnostic books but they were not accepted because they were written by Hellenistic writers that intended to change the original message of the Greek translation to imply that Jesus was not the Son of God.

See the sources below for addition research.

Source(s):

"Is the New Testament Documents Reliable?"
"The Gospel Code"
"Hidden Gospels - How the Search for Jesus Lost the Way"

Last this is a personal favorite of mine...

"New Evidence that Demands a Verdict"

go to any book store and pick them up.

Answer 4

Do you know how many gangs or followers are out there ? Ever since Jesus cult rates have boosted. If only we can create a humongous hand that can smack those pigmented ideas out there head.I think if the best communication is to teach people how to lead themselves instead of following cultured ignorance. Maybe we would have more liberative thinking people thus smarter, instead of raising people conservatively. History is ok to teach and celebrate but re-literating so to speak the facts to munipulate peoples life style so some can cope with death is selfish.

So what is the...
[ problem ]
yielding the wrath of false leaders consuming the weak and bare-able
[ discussion ]
who is the false leader... ...selfish connivers of the throne who create a false image on life
who is the weak and bare-able... ...raised conservatives(followers) guided by
criteria

Heh, that's like saying ghosts exist they are just pigmented thoughts created by the absurdness of the abstract lier. If we raise our fellow human to conserving these lies like the easter bunny then we teach them to lie like its ok. Its like a con-ed virus that tries and retard mankind. If people could just get over something that has been kept for 1000's of years .
[ solution ]
raise people liberatively thus to be smarter, the more ignorance is cured

Answer 5

Jehovah's Witnesses are Christians who do not lie to their children about Santa, or any other aspect of pagan false worship. Rather than doubts about Jesus, such truthfulness moves one to doubt the veracity of Christendom.


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/

Answer 6

Actually, Santa is Jesus, you see the fact is JC just got a bit older, a bit fatter, due to his cravings for pies, fast food and coca cola!

Answer 7

You didn't know that Santa was the starter-kit for believing the whole jesus story? Oh, poor guy.

Answer 8

Never doubt your faith. And don't cry, I've done enough of that for both us the past couple weeks.

I love your picture...that show is so funny.

Answer 9

God is real and more permanent than anything else you will ever experience.

Answer 10

You have to remember the fact that God is smarter than you, Orel. He always was and always will be.