To the people saying that "Christmas shouldnt be celebrated," cant be found in the Bible, read Jeremiah 10:1-10:5.
If that doesnt explain it to you, I dont know what will.
2007-05-28 20:31:26 · 7 answers · asked by electrosmack1 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Spot On.
Christmas, as it is today, was the invention of the Babylonians, given a veneer of "Christian" respectability by the Church of Rome.
Every facet of Christ's Mass, and its pagan origins, is detailed in the excellent work, "The Two Babylons" by Hislop.
It is available online (I believe) at a website called philologos.org
Jeremiah 10 recounts the PAGAN practices of the people with which Jeremiah had to deal; although these used the trees and decorations as representations of the "signs of the heavens" (astrology), the practices of the sacred trees and decorations is precisely what "Christmas" is represented by for the past 150 years.
Philip Livingstone
www.theforgottenbible.org
2007-05-28 20:52:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes they talk about that, Christmas is a paganistic holiday, that some Christians to make it about the Birth of Jesus, when its the holiday of the pagan god of saturn. In the Bible, it say three times a year shall all man appear before the Lord not empty. He names them, Passover(April 14), Pentecost (June 6), and the feast of Ingathering(October 15). If you continue down in Jeremiah it talks about hanging the silver and gold on and around the tree.
2007-05-29 04:05:59 · answer #2 · answered by Mila 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jeremiah explains perfectly the heathen practice of Christmas.
There is no reference in the bible that says we should celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.
Two people celebrated their birthdays Pharoah in the OT and Herod in the NT. Both were pagans, no christian in the bible celebrated their birthday.
2007-05-29 03:42:10 · answer #3 · answered by repent 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your scriptures have nothing to do with "christmas"
If you take a few moments to research this subject, you will find that Christmas has no roots in true Christianity. Many Bible scholars of various religious denominations acknowledge this. With that in mind, it should not surprise you that in England, Cromwell’s Parliament decreed in 1647 that Christmas be a day of penance and then banned it outright in 1652. Parliament purposely met on December 25 every year from 1644 to 1656. According to historian Penne L. Restad, “ministers who preached on the Nativity risked imprisonment. Churchwardens faced fines for decorating their churches. By law, shops stayed open on Christmas as if it were any regular business day.” Why such drastic measures? Puritan reformers believed that the church should not create traditions that did not exist in the Scriptures. They actively preached and distributed literature denouncing Christmas celebrations.
Similar attitudes were evident in North America. Between the years 1659 and 1681, Christmas was banned in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. According to the law enacted then, Christmas was not to be observed in any form or fashion. Violators were subject to a fine. Not only were Puritans in New England uncomfortable with celebrating Christmas but some groups in the middle colonies were also. Pennsylvania Quakers were as adamant as the Puritans in their view of the celebration. One source says that “shortly after Americans had won their independence, Elizabeth Drinker, a Quaker herself, divided Philadelphians into three categories. There were Quakers, who ‘make no more account of it [Christmas] than another day,’ those who were religious, and the rest who ‘spend it in riot and dissipation.’”
Henry Ward Beecher, a renowned American preacher who was raised in an orthodox Calvinist household, knew little about Christmas until he was 30 years old. “To me Christmas was a foreign day,” wrote Beecher in 1874.
The early Baptist and Congregationalist churches also found no Scriptural grounds for celebrating Christ’s birth. One source notes that it was not until December 25, 1772, that the Baptist Church of Newport [Rhode Island] observed Christmas for the first time. This was approximately 130 years after the founding of the first Baptist church in New England.
If December 25 is not the birthday of Jesus, celebrating that date as his birthday amounts to lying. Just as you have mentioned in your letter, how can a Christian who loves truth and is commanded to be honest promote falsehood? (Ephesians 4:25) From the date itself to the Santa Claus story, Christmas has become packed with lies. Christians, however, are told at Revelation 22:15 that “everyone liking and carrying on a lie” will end up without the divine blessing of everlasting life.
Then, why do so-called Christians in the West celebrate Christmas? One of the reasons is commercialism, just as it is in your country. I read about a Baptist minister over in the United States who lamented: “If the commercial aspect were removed entirely, most folks would feel that they had not experienced Christmas. But the religious focus could be removed entirely and a large number of people would not notice the difference.”
2007-05-29 03:44:57 · answer #4 · answered by BJ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the bible show that Jesus never celebrate his birthday that is christmas, for two reason the first Eclessiastes 7:1-2 "A name is better than good oil, and the day of death than the day of one’s being born." Jesus knew that that is why he gave more importance to his death(Luke 22:19) rather than his birthday.
Second Jesus born Tisri 15 (October 1) not in December 25
that date is in the bible but the majority of people even know that is there.
Jesus birthday is exactly 6 month after his dead that was Nisan 14, it is also in the bible both information.
If you decide to celebrate Christmas you can do it but please don´t try to "clean" that pagan feast with the name of Jesus.
The israel ´s people try to do it in the desert took a golden calf to worship and try to "clean" that pagan feast with the name of "Jehovah´s feast" but it doesn´t worked.
2007-05-29 03:35:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, I like Christmas because it is a happy time. People are nicer at Christmas. They wave and such. I'm for anything that makes people think of others.
If March 29 was "Jesus first got out of diapers" day, it would fine with me. A happy day is a happy day.
2007-05-29 03:46:36 · answer #6 · answered by Tina Goody-Two-Shoes 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
did they celebrate christ's birth back in jeremiah's days did they? or perhaps the practice related to something else entirely. Oh well, i guess i just didn't get it. sorry.
2007-05-29 03:38:22 · answer #7 · answered by Andrew B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋