What is the significance of celebrating the SACRED birth of Christ?

Question

1. for festivity & gift-giving
2. spiritual consciousness of Christ
any other reason

Dear 'gradjasa' --I won't think low of jesus.

Answer 1

Since it has nothing to do with the birth of Christ, I consider your second reason inaccurate. It was the birthday of Saturn the Sun God of Roman mythology.

In the Roman empire of the 4th century, whatever the emperor was religiously every citizen of the empire was also. So when Emperor Diocletian switched to Christianity, it made every Roman citizen a Christian (this was the birth of the Roman Catholic Church). So basically a whole bunch of people who hated Christians were forced to become Christians.

They didn't want to give up their festivals and holidays, so they renamed the Saturnalia festival into the birth of Jesus and kept right on going. And as we all know, Jehovah (God's name, can be found in Psalms 83:18) and Jesus love nothing more than to have paganism introduced into Christian worship, right?

The sole significance of celebrating Christmas is to get presents and to increase the economy through profit. Oh, and if you want to add crazy people singing in freezing temperatures because they think its fun, I guess you could put that at number 2.



Add-on:


I am not asking you to think any less of Jesus. Quite the opposite, I very much want you to think of Jesus with great love and respect. I consider Him my Saviour; using this question as my clue, I assume you also consider Him your Saviour.

What I want you to think "less of" is Christmas. Christmas is a pagan holiday; changing names and keeping all of the pagan traditions does not make it Christian. By that idea you could start thanking God everyday He made Satan for you to worship, and it would still be Christian of you to do so. I know you don't believe that to be true, so why would you believe it is okay to bring paganism into your worship of Jehovah or Jesus and expect either of Them to like you doing so?

Imagine if your significant other chose to celebrate your birthday, but did it on an ex-girlfriend's birthday. He invited people to your birthday party, but only those who ignore you or verbally abuse you. He ignores you the whole night, and pays attention to all the other girl's at the party. And when you say something, he says he is doing it all for you and you should be grateful he cares so much. How would you feel?

That is what Christmas is. We took a birthday from a rival god and used it to celebrate Jesus' birthday. We ignore his commandments, we ignore his teachings, we pay attention to rivals (such as money, commercialism, presents, etc.), and after finding that He told us what to do, we say we'll do what we want but it is for Him so He should like it. I may be wrong, but I find it hard to imagine Jesus would be too fond of that.

Answer 2

NO.1

Answer 3

The Gospel of Luke, 2:1-20

Answer 4

The significance is the fact that God so loved the world that he made marry give birth to a child that was given to her by God and none other and that he was going to save the world from their sins. He is our guide and evidently people far away heard of it and came to see and they had to hide cause the king wanted him as well as any other baby born that day killed.
Christmas is about giving the gift of sharing the spirit of Jesus and why he came.

Answer 5

I have heard compelling arguments from acheologists, historians, etc....that the Birth of Christ took place in January, April, or August....

I saw we consider all possibilities, give one day each month to be set aside to celebrate the lessons he taught....(especially that "love one another as I have loved you") and then keep that "Peace on Earth Good Will to (ALL) Men" feeling all year.....

Then we might get somewhere with celebrating Christmas....and creating greater harmony within mankind.....

Answer 6

A charade to continue keeping Pagan holidays/customs under the guise of Christianity. True Christians do not celebrate Christs' birth. They celebrate his death, and resurrection. If God had wanted us to celebrate Christs' birth, He would have made sure we knew what day it was. We don't know when Christ was born. We DO know that it was NOT December 25th.

Answer 7

if you believe in Christ and Jesus, then your meant to be celebrating all it's represents. It's been taken away commercially. It's all take take take with regards presents. The true meaning has been well and truly lost. Then we have too many people telling us, we cant celebrate too much in case it offends other religions? Were meant to live in a church of England country, so why can't we celebrate OUR own church? If other religions live here, we wont stop them celebrating theirs will we?

Answer 8

properly Jesus isn't ineffective, in case you're a christian, yet besides, in spite of each and all of the prophecies that have come actual that instruct he's alive, Christmas is a pagan, and Babylonian custom and area of fake faith. definitely the social gathering even is going back in the previous the Germans adorning a tree, it is going to Nimrod king of Babylon. particular study is a competent element.

Answer 9

Actually, there's no where in the bible where it says to celebrate the birth of Christ, it's the death that has given us salvation not his birth.
And if you are referring to Christmas that doesn't have much to do with Christ either. If you read the history of how Christmas originated you will be shocked.

Answer 10

There is no significance, the early christians usurped a much older pagan midwinter festival and modified it to suit their own evil ends