What is the main purpose of Christmas and why on the 25 th Dec ??

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Answer 1

The prominence of Christmas Day increased gradually after Charlemagne was crowned on Christmas Day in 800. Around the 12th century, the remnants of the former Saturnalian traditions of the Romans were transferred to the Twelve Days of Christmas (26 December - 6 January). Christmas during the Middle Ages was a public festival, incorporating ivy, holly, and other evergreens, as well as gift-giving.

Modern traditions have come to include the display of Nativity scenes, Holly and Christmas trees, the exchange of gifts and cards, and the arrival of Father Christmas or Santa Claus on Christmas Eve or Christmas morning. Popular Christmas themes include the promotion of goodwill and peace.

A winter festival was traditionally the most popular festival of the year in many cultures. Reasons included less agricultural work needing to be done during the winter, as well as people expecting longer days and shorter nights after the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere.[1] In part, the Christmas celebration was created by the early Church in order to entice pagan Romans to convert to Christianity without losing their own winter celebrations.[2][3]

Most of the most important gods in the religions of Ishtar and Mithra had their birthdays on December 25. Various traditions are considered to have been syncretised from winter festivals including the following:

Answer 2

This time of year the winter solstice was celebrated, Christianity came on the scene and destroyed pagan belief. However, the pagans were strong as were their beliefs so the Christians melted the solstice in to a celebration of Christs birthday to persuade the pagans in a less violent manner to convert{Easter was done this way too}, which there is no proof that he was born this time of year. However it was believed that Mithra was born on the 25th day of the 12th month. Today however the holiday is all about making money for the corporate America greed machine. Funny how we celebrate Christs birth by wallowing in greed, lust, sloth, coveting, disrespect, gluttony. I doubt very much Christ would approve. And the usual Christmas meal is a Ham, Christ was a Jew...he would not have eaten a ham...

Answer 3

Yep, it was a pagan feast day, BUT, it is also believed to be the birthdate of Zarathustra, a Babylonian pagan god or king(I forgot).

At midwinter, pagans would hold a great feast to celebrate the fall's harvest, then hold fertility rituals to ensure the good Spring harvest...then do THAT again in the Spring in the fields.

So, here we have a big problem...midwinter day is Dec 21st.
Not the 25th. But SOMETHING about the 25th pissed off the monks enough to change that pagan day to a Christian Celebration. And told the pagans involved,"Uh, look, uh, your god likes this day, and so does ours...so we'll combine the two."

They did, and the pagans kept right on celebrating their god, much to the chagrine of those monks.

Christ wasn't born on the 25th, that much is sure...the early leaders of the Christian faith had a LOT of ideas on what to leave OUT of their writings, the Bible, which wasn't actually written until long about the 12th century(?) And, good ole King James did a LOT of editing and revising on his version...he had the monks and scribes do it for him.

Elysabeth Faslund...Poemhunter.com

Answer 4

the objective of Christmas is to have fun the delivery of Jesus Christ, the perception of that's the inspiration for the finished Christian faith. As for Dec. twenty 5th., The Catholic church made a style and picked the day. 2 motives, not sure whilst easily date replaced into, and to soak up the holiday of the celtic pagans,wintry climate solstice.

Answer 5

I beg to differ with the first respondant. December the 25th was chosen to celebrate Jesus' birth to coincide with the pagen Winter Solstice. Jesus would have been born sometime in the Spring, which is when 3 travelers would have found the star that led them to the child in that part of the sky. The arbitrary nature of the chioce of December 25th does not lessen the importance of the birth, but it does emphasize the importance of historical accuracy

Answer 6

Christians celebrate christmas as Christ's birthday. But the 25th of December has earlier roots. The reasons we celebrate christmas on the 25th of december has to do with Constantine the first catholic roman emperor. Before he discovered christianity, Constantine used to worship the sun god Sol. Sol was a Roman Sun God who was born on the 25th of December, every twenty fifth of december, The Romans would celebrate a feast day for their sun-god called "Saturnalia', on saturnalia you would get a tree, put it indoors as a shrine to sol and put presents underneath the tree, the presents would then be dispersed around to the family members. When Constantine converted to christianity he saw no reason to change his favourite festival day, and so renamed it christmas!

Now wait till i tell you what the romans got up too on easter!

Answer 7

Okay Christ was not born on thee 25th of Dec, when the early Christians were spreading the gospel they picked days that were important on the pagan calender, so in the 25 we commemorate, that God gave up heaven to come here for us.

Answer 8

Christmas is the day that Christ or Jesus was born. He was born on Dec. 25. So we celebrate his birthday or they day he was born.

Answer 9

It celebrates Christs birth, it is on the 25th because the church wanted to hava an even amout of time between the church holidays. God's gift to us is Jesus, Easter is Jesus's holiday, and Pentacost the Holy Spirits

Answer 10

to celebrate the birth of jesus christ.
it was made on the 25 of dec so that they could more easily convert the pagans by having it close to the pagan holiday Yule.