Do you celebrate Chrismas? If it is a religious event why is it not mentioned in the Bible and the date?

Answer 1

Pagan, it is a pagan festival of roman diety mithra

Answer 2

Christmas is the celebration of God becoming incarnate, the birth of Christ. It is most certainly mentioned in the Bible -- See Matthew 1:18-25 or Luke 1:26-55 and 2:1-20.

The exact date is not mentioned because people didn't have calendars to mark dates with. I don't know if you know this or not, but the printing press wasn't invented until the 1400s and cheap paper didn't become available for a couple centuries after that. People only knew they were born in the spring, summer, winter or fall and how many springs or summers or winters or falls had passed since their births. The only people who kept calendars were scholars. For everybody else, exact dates were meaningless.

Christmas celebrates the FACT that Christ was born, not the DAY that Christ was born.

Answer 3

Gee, I could have sworn I read ALOT in the bible about the birth of Jesus. Maybe it was a different book? As for a date, the books that make up the bible were written thousands of years ago. To me that makes it tough to expect exact dates- even if they listed exact dates I would question the accuracy of stories passed down over that many years. I look at the bible as a "guidebook" for life that includes metaphors and some stories that are just entertainment.

Answer 4

I celebrate Christmas -- it's one of the most important religious days of the year -- the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ. It is mentioned in the Bible in that it's the birth of Christ, but the celebrated day (Dec. 25) was created by us. Many pagan holidays were celebrated aroudn that time, so what better time to celebrate our Savior's birth and get rid of paganism (and help spread Christianity, which was a big thing at the time) than around that time.

Answer 5

You hit the nail on head. Christmas is not mentioned in the Bible because it was never meant to be celebrated. In fact, Jesus himself said that we were to remember his death. He never said his birth. And if he had celebrated his birthday, there would be a record of it. Also, the birthday celebrations mentioned in the Scriptures end in disaster. So it's pretty clear that God never intended for us to participate in this holiday. Christmas has only pagan roots dressed up to look religious.

I don't celebrate Christmas because I feel that it would be displeasing to God if I do. But the materialistic people of the world carry on about presents. Well, who says that you only need to give or receive presents once a year? In my family we give presents all through the year, and come December, no-one feels like they're missing anything.

Answer 6

All cultures have midwinter festivals.

Christ was actually born in the early spring.

Therapeutic REASONS:
Even in modern cultures these gatherings are still valued for emotional comfort, having something to look forward to at the darkest time of the year. This is especially the case for populations in the near polar regions of the hemisphere. The depressive psychological effects of winter on individuals and societies for that matter, are for the most part tied to coldness, tiredness, malaise, and inactivity. Winter weather, plus being indoors causes negative ion deficiency which decreases serotonin levels resulting in depression and tiredness. Also, getting insufficient light in the short winter days increases the secretion of melatonin in the body, off balancing the circadian rhythm with longer sleep. Studies have proven that exercise, light therapy, increased negative ion exposure (which can be attained from plants and well ventilated flames burning wood or beeswax) can reinvigorate the body from its seasonal lul and relieve winter blues by shortening the melatonin secretions, increasing serotonin and temporarily creating a more even sleeping pattern. Midwinter festivals and celebrations occurring on the longest night of the year, often calling for evergreens, bright illumination, large ongoing fires, feasting, communion with close ones, and evening physical exertion by dancing and singing are examples of cultural winter therapies that have evolved as traditions since the beginnings of civilization. Such traditions can stir the wit, stave off malaise, reset the internal clock and rekindle the human spirit.

Answer 7

Christmas is supposed to celebrate the Birth of Christ but it is celebrated in the wrong day, jesus was more likely born in the summer, besides instead of celebrating the Birth of Christ the holiday is now focused on Saint Nicholas of Patara, or Saint Nicholas of Bari, an Ortodox Christian, he was Bishop of Myra, Turkey he lived from 270 to 343 AD and never officially canonised.

Dec 25 is actually the birth or dionysius the greek god, when Emperor Constantine declared himself Christian he stated that date as christmas.

Beside that Christmas has lost its true mening and it more a commercial holiday.

Answer 8

No I do not. The only celebration the Bible tells us to keep is the most important one of all. That of the death of our Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus told his followers to remember this date, Nisan 14 in the Jewish calendar, or the Passover as it was then. Why remember this event? Because it is a reminder that Jesus' death and the way it was accomplished in harmony with God's purpose as at Genesis 3:15 served to vindicate Jehovah's name. By maintaining integrity to Jehovah, Jesus proved that Adam's sin was not due to any flaw in the Creator's designing of man but that it was possi ble for a human to maintain perfect godly devotion even under severe pressure. Another reason, is that Jesus' death would provide the perfect human sacrifice needed to ransom Adam's offspring and thus make it possible for billions who would exercise faith to live forever in a paradise earth. John 3:16

Answer 9

Of course the birth of Christ is mentiond in the Bible. The date is not because the calendar as we know it (Christians) only started with the Birth of Christ. Anno Domini= in the year of our Lord. 25 December was selected by Christians when they were trying to convert the Pagans as the Pagan mid winter festival which they already celebrated. Similarly Easter was placed at the time of the Spring festivals.

Answer 10

Happily Happy is right; the Bible doesn't tell us when Christ was born. Christmas was originally a pagan holiday, and the Church decided to counter pagan celebrations by celebrating the birth of Christ on that day instead. You can celebrate the birth of Christ on any day, really, thus it becomes a religious holiday for Christians.

Answer 11

It is in the bible ....The story of Joseph and Mary in the manger....Though it dose not give a date.....The date that we celebrate the Christs birth is actually the beginning of the winter sulstus.Which was a pagan holiday..We have combine the two in to one....It is said that Jesus was born in the spring because that's when Rome did the census to collect taxes and the people had to go back to their home towns...That is why Jesus was born in Bethlehem..