2007-11-18 00:37:14 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You cannot lose something you never had to begin with!
2007-11-18 03:25:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 1⤋
According to a recent poll taken in the United States, only 33 percent of those polled felt that the birth of Christ is the most important aspect of Christmas.
The real Jesus is often lost in Christmas celebrations. There is no record that he ever even told the disciples his date of birth; nor is there any indication that his followers celebrated his birthday.
It was not Jesus' birth but his death—and its history-making significance—that he commanded his followers to commemorate. (Luke 22:19, 20) It was not as a helpless baby in a manger that Jesus wished to be remembered, for he is nothing of the kind now. More than 60 years after his execution, Jesus revealed himself in vision to the apostle John as a mighty King riding into battle. (Revelation 19:11-16) It is in that role, as Ruler of God's heavenly Kingdom, that we need to get to know Jesus today, for he is a King who will change the world.
2007-11-19 12:14:08 · answer #2 · answered by babydoll 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
It never really had him to begin with. Christmas is actually a pagan holiday called Yule, which is a celebration of the Winter Solstice. As Christianity spread over Europe, they took over the pagan holidays as an attempt to force conversion. They did the same to many other pagan holidays, such as Easter (Oestara).
Jesus was actually born in the spring.
2007-11-18 15:02:26 · answer #3 · answered by Bookworm 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Christmas was never about Christ in the first place, its a ripped off and twisted pagan holiday called Yule.
2007-11-18 00:42:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 12⤊ 1⤋
I asked my neighbor who I am friendly with, since you say the it is Jesus Christ birthday, what does he get as far as presents and she stopped and thought and said nothing. it has nothing to do with Jesus Christ. even the tv ads on tv, there is on for toys r us. a girl has a room full of stuff toys and she asks her mother for more. I call christmas, I want, I need, and I must have holiday.
2007-11-18 01:21:20 · answer #5 · answered by lover of Jehovah and Jesus 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋
No, Christmas was not Christian to be begin with, but is a product of Rome's attempt to appease pagan "convert" with a "Christianized" version of Saturnalia.
God does not need help from distinctly pagan elements, and the Bible does not support Christianizing of such, but God makes a new creation (2Cor. 5:17).
The Bible also reproves the liturgical annual observance of "days, and months, and times, and years" (Ga. 4:10; Col. 2:16), except for the first day of the week (Act 20:7; 1Cor. 16:2).
Why would otherwise Holy Spirit-led pastors bow down 4 months out the years to observe the Christianized pagan festival, instituted by a false church? We are to come out of Rome, Egypt and Babylon, not go back into them.
The celebration of Christmas is like the idolatrous high places of old, which Jews sometimes turned into places of Jehovistic worship, but God wanted them destroyed, and such "Christianizing" perpetuated their places, allowing them to the more easily to revert back to their original form. ikewise Christmas has become today.
Christmas is a charade, a party to which Christ is not invited, and is tree that the Father has not been planted, which is to be cut down, and it is legalism and bondage to basically require us to observe it (members are persecuted if they do not). Instead, let us "Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage "(Gal 5:1), and let us worship God in spirit and in truth, as He leads.
http://forums.christiansunite.com/index.php?topic=17759.15
2007-11-18 01:11:10 · answer #6 · answered by www.peacebyjesus 5 · 2⤊ 5⤋
Yes it has. I would like Christmas to be celebrated with a Church service and Christian fellowship dinner. We do not give our family and friends gifts but we bring gifts of money for "honest" charities.(right now the only one I know of is The Salvation Army) We bring gifts of food for the local food bank. It would be a much more meaningful way to celebrate the the Birth of Christ.
2007-11-18 00:45:39 · answer #7 · answered by Ruth 7 · 2⤊ 4⤋
December 25 wasn't his birthday to begin with -- a pagan celebration was usurped by early Christians.
If it's about Christ for you, cool. But it really is not a Christian holiday. I could rename July 4 "National Purple Turnip Day" and it would still be Independence Day to every other American.
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2007-11-18 00:42:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 3⤋
So what if the world wants to start calling it "Holiday", because they want to have it both ways...celebrate something they don't believe in, and still be able to walk away not believing.
The store doesn't want to say Christmas because it refers to God and may offend someone? Fine...just hope they understand my money also has "God" written on it, and I'll help them keep from offending folk who have nightmares and so traumatized by having to walk into a store with Christ's name "shoved at them". The don't want "Christ" in their ads, they must not want "God" either, I'll keep my dollars so I'm not adding to the trauma.
2007-11-18 00:45:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
I dont think so. If that will be the case then let us omit the word CHRIST- in christmas . The remaining letters will stand for nothing. Christmas is gift giving and the most valued gift is love... merry christmas
2007-11-18 00:48:28 · answer #10 · answered by mandala_04 2 · 2⤊ 5⤋
Has Soltice lost Sol?
2007-11-18 15:11:24 · answer #11 · answered by ~Heathen Princess~ 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋