As the Bible does not say when Jesus was born, but tells us the specifics of his death, why would you celebrate a lie? Do any of you know that the Bible calls Satan the father of the lie? Would God want us to celebrate a lie? If any of you should do the research on the birth of Jesus Christ you would find out that he never celebrated it. That came into play about 300 years after he died. So, if he didn't think it was important to celebrate it, what makes you think God wants us to? When did God every say to have Christmas?
2007-07-26 05:14:58 · 26 answers · asked by Suzy 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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At least "worldly christendom' is not the false prophet disguising its self as "new Light"
2007-07-26 05:42:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 8⤋
You must be a Jehovah's Witness. I don't believe that Jesus was born on December 25th--he was probably born in April. But I really don't think God has a problem with us remembering and celebrating the birth of his Son, even if we have the date wrong. I don't know if people celebrated their birthdays or not in ancient Judea, but even if he did, it probably wouldn't be mentioned in the Bible. That doesn't mean that we can't celebrate his birthday in remembrance of what a wonderful event it was and how much it meant to the world. God never said to have Christmas, but he never said not to have it, either. You need to chill out, lighten up, and don't take such light things so seriously. I'm sure that celebrating Christmas will not affect your salvation or bring down the wrath of God upon your head. In their efforts to distance themselves from traditional Christianity, the JWs have gone a little too extreme here.
2007-07-26 05:23:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Although the Bible does not specify exact dates for Jesus' birth and death, the dates that are celebrated were chosen to counteract high pagan feasts with Christian prayer and sacrifice. The timing of these dates was chosen during early church history. The importance of Christmas is that we celebrate the birth of our Savior and Redeemer. The "Modern Celebration" of Christmas has become overly materialized and the emphasis has been taken off of God.
2007-07-26 05:22:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Quiet right. Interestingly the only two birthdays mentioned in the Bible have terrible things associated with them. Genesis 40:40-42, Pharoahs birthday feast resulted in the chief of bakers being hung. Matthew 14:6-10 John the Baptist beheaded as part of Herods birthday celebration. Birthday celebrations were rejected by early Christians until the 4th century because they had pagan associations and pantheistic beliefs. As Jesus taught his followers to reject such false teachings surely he wouldn't want his name attached to a pagan festival.
2007-07-26 06:51:57 · answer #4 · answered by the truth has set me free 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Well if you were to take a man who was completely ignorant to the bible and to the traditions of man what passage in the bible would teach him how to celebrate Christmas? I know Jesus left us instructions on how to observe his death, where are the instructions for his birth?
2007-07-26 13:14:03 · answer #5 · answered by YouAsked4it 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your question shows that you obviously have no idea what you're talking about.
Christians on a majority know full well Jesus wasn't born on December 25th. The day is chosen to be a symbolic representation of the birth of Christ.
As with most Christian festivals, it was placed over top of already existing local Pagan traditions to convert them easier. It's alot easier to say "See? You can still have your winter festival! It's fun and everyone enjoys it, but try it in the name of this god as opposed to that god!" The masses love festivals and celebrations, and taking pre-exisiting ones and turning them into christian festivals, adopting their beliefs and traditions helps convert. This is where you get clearly un-Christian symbols such as the Christmas tree and the holly wreath from, as these were used in the Pagan celebrations.
2007-07-26 05:22:31 · answer #6 · answered by mad_hillbilly 3 · 4⤊ 2⤋
If I'm not mistaken, research showed that He was probably born in the autumn (Septemberish). The celebration of Christmas was created by the Roman church to appease the pagan faction of the Roman Church. I have no problem celebrating the birth of my Messiah as it was the greatest gift our Lord has bestowed on us. Would it get the non believers off our backs if we celebrated on September 12th or something like that?
2007-07-26 05:25:48 · answer #7 · answered by Sir Offenzalot 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
When did God ever say NOT to celebrate certain events???
Yes, we can do the math. Jesus died during the spring (usually March/April based on the Jewish calendar) add 6 months to that (he was 33 1/2 years old at his death) you come up with Sept/Oct.
We simply do not know WHEN his birthday is. I know of families that adopt abandoned children, they have never known THEIR birthday either. Does it mean that they didn't have one? NO! A date is decided upon, usually based on when they "received" the child etc.
Yes, the date 12/25 is based on a pagan celebration. Doesn't mean that the date is in and of itself pagan. No more or no less than any other date on the calendar is pagan. Dates are dates, not good not bad. It is an accepted date to celebrate our Lord and Savior.
2007-07-26 05:21:58 · answer #8 · answered by Carol D 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Jesus only said to celebrate one event, and that was the memorial or the last supper. He said " keep doing this in remembrance of me". Birthdays in the bible are associated with bad things. The pagans were never converted to anything, they just assumed the name of Christians after it became a state religion. True Christians went underground.
Jesus warned about the false prophets at Mt 7:15 Be on the watch for the false Prophets that come to you in sheep's covering but inside they are ravenous wolves 16 By their fruits you will recognize them. Never do people gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles, do they?. 17 Likewise every good tree produces fine fruit but every rotten tree produces worthless fruit;
Assigning a holy event like the birth of Christ to a day celebrated by Pagans as part of their rituals, is like gathering grapes from thorns. The Roman Empire became Christendom, and as a rotten tree, it produced worthless fruit, thorns, and thistles. Christmas and the other holidays being part of that worthless fruit, all of them are based on pagan events or co-mingled with the truth (Easter/bunny). Talk about people being programmed or mind washed. Satan has certainly blinded the eyes of most of the commenters on this subject.
2007-07-26 07:57:40 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I dont think it matters when we celebrate Christmas. We may very well never know when Jesus Christ was actually born. But we do know that He was, for me that is enough. Personally I celebrate the fact that GOD sent his only son to be our Saviour.
2007-07-26 05:28:40 · answer #10 · answered by meltman 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
actually, i have to agree with you. Celebrating Christmas in Dec is a lie. The bible details the time he was born, not in literal words, but by descriptions of planets and stars and the weather at that time. if you research more into it, you will find out that he was actually born in the spring, not in winter. To go more into it, christians chose that day because it coincides with a pagan holiday, which they thought was evil.
2007-07-26 05:19:12 · answer #11 · answered by BabyBoi 3 · 7⤊ 1⤋