WHY DO U CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS?
DOES BIBLE SAY THAT JESUS WAS BORN ON DEC 25TH.... NOBODY KNOWS JESUS'S BIRTHDAY... IT WAS A DAY ASSUMED BY THE PEOPLE OF DARK AGES IN CHRISTIANITY...
2007-12-13 07:44:19 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
would u accept ur birthday being celebrated on a wrong day, then how about the son of God...
2007-12-13 07:57:36 · update #1
Cultural tradition.
I'm a Christian and I find that Christmas has very little impact spiritually. Don't think of Christmas as a birthday, but rather a commemoration of the birth. (heck we don't even celebrate Washington's birthday on the correct day - and we know for sure when that was).
2007-12-13 07:49:23 · answer #1 · answered by wigginsray 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually I celebrate my birthday on the wrong day all the time. I pick a day that *does* work for me that year and celebrate it then. or i have a "birthday week" where i piecemeal my birthday together.
i do not find the exact date of celebrating something to hold any particular significance. especially with something like Christmas and Easter where our calendar system wasn't even in place when those events took place. what i Do find significant is the reason for celebrating. we celebrate those things we find to be important. I find the most important events in human history all center on Jesus. God showing us how much He loves us, how He was never angry except at those who were so religious they pushed people away from Him. Sin saddens Him because it traps us as a slave to something else when He just wants to set us free from all that. In order to correct religious misinterpretations and lies that God doesn't love us He just wants to Lord it over us, Jesus left His Glory and became a helpless baby who couldn't hold His own head up and smeared mashed peas all over the place. I can love, trust, obey, and follow a God like that. That is why I celebrate Christmas
(and just for the information of those posting, "Xmas" is not offensive as it was originally a Christian shorthand for Christmas since in Greek Jesus' name started with an "X". so saying "xmas" instead of "christmas" really is the same thing just shorter!)
2007-12-13 09:45:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think for certain that December 25th is the day that Jesus was born. He may been born in January. The point of x-mas is not knowing the specific day Jesus was born. It is being thank full for what you have and reflecting on the fact that what you do have it is always better to share it with other people.
2007-12-13 07:51:30 · answer #3 · answered by Rosalie Cullen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was supposedly born in spring time...the Christmas is in December because the Christians stole the Yule, a pagan holiday which is around that date and made the Christmas...now of course the Christmas is nothing more than a commercial holiday popularized by coca-cola( Santa is wearing red because of coca-cola). So Christmas has nothing to do with Christianity, that`s why i celebrate it.
2007-12-13 07:49:49 · answer #4 · answered by Sir Alex 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Becuase I have to. Plus I like being off work for almost 2 weeks, getting tipsy with friends and family, being with friends and family, and just to whole happy feeling that comes with all of that.
I've never really celebrated because of anything to do with Jesus, I'm not a religious person, but I respect the story...
2007-12-13 07:50:28 · answer #5 · answered by dazedandconfused 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't. 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.
Christmas is a pagan holiday that all true Christians avoid.
2007-12-13 07:48:48 · answer #6 · answered by LineDancer 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Christians are the individuals that moved it to coincide with the Pagan Festival to take a look at and get individuals to transform, they usually constructed church buildings on pagan sacred floor to take a look at and contain them within the starting, the christians might pass by way of the entrance door the Pagans on the north gate, later this was once blocked off because the Christians didn't just like the Idea of Pagans Gathering on the again door! If you appear at older chuches you'll be able to see wherein they had been blocked up, the stone used was once special from the leisure. It's major to me!
2016-09-05 12:09:27 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We don't know what calendar day, that Jesus was born, so we celebrate his birthday on December 25, always.
2007-12-13 07:50:11 · answer #8 · answered by Sweet Suzy 777! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I celebrate Christmas because its a holiday reserved for "Christ Birth".....not necessarily Christ was born on DEC 25Th...but just a day acknowledging Christ birth...also .... i love the Christmas trees and lights....and giving and making people happy.
2007-12-13 07:54:26 · answer #9 · answered by miko1225 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't see that the date is a issue. You are right no one today knows. But it is simply the fact of taking the time to acknowledge the event, The day that We believe that our God left the glories of heaven to be born in a barn for me. for you, for all. The date just does not matter.
2007-12-13 07:55:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋