Why & is it necessary to have Xmas tree?

Question

Any spiritual /custom

Answer 1

I believe it is a custom that started centuries ago in Europe, and is associated with winter, which coincides with Christmas-time.

It's a lovely tradition for those who choose it. But I think you can still have a nice Christmas without one.

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Answer 2

Christmas is a celebration that wasn't conceived until over 300 years after the death of Christ.

Winter Solstice falls on December 22, The Christmas tree represents the unity of all Winter solstice celebrations around the world, Christianity adopted it at about the same time that they adopted Christmas

Answer 3

It's a remnant of the old tree worshipping religion in Northern Europe

Answer 4

well see the thing about christmas tree is. there was a real st nick, and back in the days he was around, theri wasnt very many places to put presents that he gave kids. he didnt have fly through air and all with reindeers but he ddi deliver presents to kids who was poor. anywasy like i said wasnt very many places to put the presents, then he had gone to one house who had a tree, so he put the presents under it and ,it came like a symbol of christmas for presents to be under, somethlng like that it was. anywsy hope that helped, take care, and merry christmas!!!

Answer 5

I, my family and friends are heathen - the Yule tree is an ancient custom in our religion, predating Christianity. We celebrate the 12 days and nights of Yule with a decorated tree, lights, decorations (no angels or managers, thanks), feasting, toasting, Yule log, wreath. It starts on the Solstice where we welcome the tilt of the earth and the sun beginning to gain in strength towards the spring.

Answer 6

Reasons for Christmas Trees-

Basically it is a custom to have a X mas tree on Christmas. It is a symbol of joy and to get celebration moods.

Christmas trees are a throwback to Pagan times when at the winter solstace evergreen trees would be decorated as they were the only thing left that wasn't dead in the winter. Hence, the promise of renewed life and the birth of the new year, as Jesus is the promise of eternal life, and Christmas celebrates his birth.

Some have thought that because of Abraham planting a tree in Gen 21:33 and calling on the name of the eternal God that the tree became part of remembering our covenant with God.

Since before Christmas existed, people used plants that stay green all year to decorate their homes in the winter. Hanging evergreen boughs over a door was a reminder of springtime during the cold, dark winter. But it wasn't until the 16th century in Germany that Christians started using trees as decorations around Christmas. German settlers in Pennsylvania brought the first Christmas trees to America in the late 1700s, but they weren't common until after 1834. That's when Prince Albert, the German husband of Britain's Queen Victoria, first brought a Christmas tree to Windsor Castle. The royal family was very popular, so many people wanted to have a Christmas tree like the royals -- even Americans! The idea stuck, and people have decorated trees at Christmas ever since.

The Christmas tree may offer an interesting example of both streams of influence converging together (though when considered over the global history of Christianity, the Christmas tree isn't very important as a Christian symbol). Offering an explanation of these streams of meaning may illustrate how the interpretation of symbols is somewhat arbitrary and free.

On one hand, trees that remain green in the winter have been symbolic of life in the midst of death, and of rebirth, in many cultures. The Christian folk-religious custom of erecting and adorning evergreen trees in the middle of winter was borrowed directly from existing practice, regardless of whether the custom had pagan roots. Some of the existing meaning has been carried over into Christian culture, together with these practices.

On the other hand, trees appear with symbolic meaning throughout the Bible: and the Christmas tree alludes to and builds upon this biblical symbolism. From the symbolic tree of knowledge of good and evil, concerning which the Fall of man and the curse of death came, to the tree of life from access to which mankind has been cut off, to the Oak of Mamre which "witnessed" the covenant made with Abraham and the renewal of that covenant with Joshua, to promises concerning the root of Jesse, the Branch, the Messiah, who was hung on a tree to bear the curse, and has been raised up again as a tree of life for the healing of the nations: the Christian story can be told from beginning to end in the symbolic terms of trees.-

Answer 7

To celebrate Christmas

Answer 8

To cut back on electricity. The tree lights use less energy and electricity. Its also cute, and you get presents under it especially if you are good. You know that he sees you when your sleeping and knows when you're awake, he knows if you've been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake.

Merry......

Answer 9

It is a shaman tradition that was adopted by the early Christians by proclamation of Emperor Constantine.

Answer 10

Because we have had one each Christmas for years now so the family expects to have one this year too.