Did they celebrate christmas during Jesus time.
We say after christ AC and before christ BC.
Is 1st January his birthday.
What is the meaning of the world Christmas and where it was derived from.
Why they celebrate and how it should be celebrated.
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Wish you Happy Merry Christmas. May this Christmas bring joy, peace and prosperity to everyone across the globe.
Oh god!!! Please forgive us for our repetitive mistakes. Forgive us, change us for good.
2007-12-22 01:32:58 · 9 answers · asked by ? 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Hai Gentleman!
A wonderful and thoughtful question to ask during the time of Christmas.
I have always wondered what it means and I felt that it ment Christ-Mass which is birth of Christ but as you asked the question I searced google for th meaning of Christmas. I mean the essance of the word and why is it called Christmas but not something else. I was shocked to read the definition or the literary meaning of christmas! It actually means the death of Christ!!!!!!!!
Here is the link:-
http://www.lasttrumpetministries.org/tracts/tract4.html
At last there is a question by the writer himself why we are soo merry about the passion and death of Christ. I feel it is because after the huge sacrifice Lord Jesus did we were again united with the Father God Almighty after us being seperated from him when Adam and Eve was. It is a happy and merry thing. To be reunited with our Father.
Still I feel that the meaning of Christmas means the remambrance of the birth of Jesus Christ to die for us to reunite us with God by forgiving our sins as only God can forgive ones sin. It is the remembrane of Christ being born in this world to sacrifice himself for all of us.
I feel Christmas is not all about celebrating and giving and recieving presents and enjoying and partying. It is all about praising and remembering Christ-his birth-life-passion-death. Thanking him for what he did! That is what Christmas is all about! Us being baptised for the first time from all our sins. Is his birth and death.
God send his only son to this world through a normal human by the power of Holy Spirit. He lived and died to buy our pardon. He still lives in the Heaven and is seated at the right hand of the father.
Amen!
I guess knowing the true meaning i shouldn't say Merry Christmas but we should be happy as Jesus was born to save us which is why he is called the saviour. we should also be thankfl and greatful for what Jesus did for us, so I guess we can also be happy.
2007-12-22 12:26:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The chance of Jesus being born on December 25 is very slim, add to the fact that they didn't use our modern calendar in the first century. AD320 sounds right (from your other answerer) as the day the set aside for celebrating His birth but some groups do not use that day.
It's AD, Latin for "in the year of our Lord," you have BC correct
There's as much a chance Jesus was born on 1/1 as 12/25 but neither is likely. Most scholars place his birth in the spring anywhere from AD4 to AD7.
As I recall, Christmas is adapted from Christ-mass. A Catholic thing, I'd guess.
People should be able to celebrate Christmas with their own traditions and customs. I, personally, think we all should, at least, remember the birth of Jesus and focus on His love for us. Merry Christmas!
2007-12-22 02:43:29 · answer #2 · answered by starfishltd 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
definite, the angels have fun the delivery of the Christ newborn and so could desire to we. you're maximum suitable that we don't understand the date of Jesus' delivery, yet traditionally, we have fun it on Dec 25. I shop Christ Jesus in recommendations when I have fun Christmas. while you're dissatisfied over the commercialization of Christmas, do some thing on your person existence to make it much less commercial. If Christmas has no longer something to do with Jesus, then why is His call stated so in many circumstances in the Christmas caroles?
2016-10-09 02:02:20 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have a lot of learning to do. First, it is not "AC" but "AD" for "Ano Deium" (or close, I don't speak latin).
Most serious Bible students agree that he was born in the spring time.
Our current celebration is essentially a result of Church propoganda and "converting" a pagan holiday to a Christian one.
Take some time to do some research on the holiday as well as looking up what the word "Holiday" means.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
2007-12-22 01:42:29 · answer #4 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The date 12/25 was chosen by edict given from the emperor Constantine around 320.
This was done to bring the Christian celebration in line with the solstice, or sun God celebration that was already being practiced by most of the empire.
This was later changed from the celebration of the son God to the son of God when Paul's misrepresentations of Jesus"s teachings began to become popular.
Love and blessings Don
2007-12-22 01:41:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I've heard that actually Jesus was born, according to the Jewish calendar, in the month - according to our calendar - of September. The weather was actually extremely hot.
Anyway, season's greetings.
2007-12-22 02:44:53 · answer #6 · answered by Analyst 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-12-24 00:59:03 · answer #7 · answered by sita 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First the confusion on how to write the era’s date.
AD = "Ano Deium" which most people think of as After Death, or After the Birth of Christ.
In societies that are not Christian it is abbreviated ACE = “After Common Era.” That’s where his AC came from.
BC = Before Christ and in non-Christian societies it is abbreviated BCE = “Before Common Era.”
Jesus was NOT born on Christmas, indeed according to the bible it was quite warm. According to a Catholic Priest I heard Christ was actually born in the year 3 BC. A monk calculating the date made a simple math error, but the error was discovered too late and everyone uses the standard now so it can’t be changed. However, it is another reason why BCE and ACE are coming into use. Arguments came out over Christ dieing at 33 or 36 and the older age wasn’t accepted until later.
Jesus Christ was the original nonviolent rebel whose example both Martin Luther King and Gandhi followed. He was killed by the Romans because he was a rebel, and he claimed to be the Son of God. The Romans would have been happy to imprison and deport him to some cold dark corner of the Empire, but the Jewish leaders insisted on a Crucification. This a very painful method of execution not just because the hands and feet are nailed to the cross, but because the person can’t breath if they hang from their arms, they have to stand up and get tired of that. When they get tired enough they start to suffocate, so it can take all day for them to die.
Jesus was arrested and brought forth to be judged by the Roman Governor Pontius Pilate, under charges of subverting the nation, opposing taxes to Caesar, and making himself a king. The Jewish leaders were asking for the death sentence and Roman law did not allow them to apply it. Once Pilate learned Jesus was from Galilee he refereed the case to King Herod. Jesus won’t answer King Herod’s questions so he is returned to Pilate who decides to have him whipped and released, and he was whipped. The chief priests inform Pilate of a new charge, demanding Jesus be sentenced to death "because he claimed to be God's son." This possibility filled Pilate with fear, and he brought Jesus back inside the palace and demanded to know from where he came, meanwhile the crowd is calling “Crucify him, Crucify him.” Coming before the crowd one last time, Pilate declares Jesus innocent, washing his own hands in water to show he has no part in this condemnation. Nevertheless, Pilate hands Jesus over to be crucified in order to forestall a riot.
Jesus’ death is Friday evening. Either a Roman Soldier had pity and stabbed him in the side with a spear to hasten his death or he was ordered to so that he would die before the Jewish Sabbath started; making it possible to bury him once he was announced to be dead rather than left to hang around. Since no work was allowed on the Sabbath the mortuary people wouldn’t have been able to prepare the body on the Sabbath. Regardless of the circumstances Jesus died a rebel and the religion of Christianity was illegal.
The religion refused to die and some 250 years later a Roman Emperor established a council to codify the Bible. Rome’s official position was to allow tolerance for all religions, Christianity was outlawed because they taught intolerance to all other religions. This is why Nero and others had Christians feed to the lions in the Coliseum and burned at the stake (often for torch light at a party or at the race track).
Christianity took over as the major religion of Rome, of the Mediterranean area and it spread to Northern and Western Europe, becoming the state religion there and the force that took over after the Roman Empire crumbled and Charlemagne failed to replace him.
Along the way Christianity became the foundation for Medieval society and it spread into the New World. The early Christians changed the celebration of the birth of Jesus to the Saturnalia celebrations so they could celebrate his birth and seem to be good Romans.
The actual date of his birth was blurred and lost and currently it is celebrated on Easter as well as the day of his death on Good Friday. Christianity was adapted to suit the ruling culture and became the power behind the throne claiming that the nobility of Europe were appointed by divine right and since you can’t go against your God and your religion you had to support the nobility.
In the 3rd Century Saint Nicholas; the then Bishop of Myra in Lycia of Anatolia started the tradition of celebrating Christmas with a giving of gifts. He was never canonized so is an unofficial saint, but much respected in Christianity. Saint Nicholas is attributed with many compassionate acts and miracles, his most famous exploit however, a poor man had three daughters but could not afford a proper dowry for them. Versions differ, but all agree he gave gold in an anonymous donation. His donation of gold to three became symbolized by 3 balls making St. Nick the patron saint of Pawnbrokers.
In late medieval England, on Saint Nicholas' Day parishes held Yuletide "boy bishop" celebrations. As part of this celebration, youths performed the functions of priests and bishops, and exercised rule over their elders. Today, Saint Nicholas is still celebrated as a great gift-giver in several Western European countries. According to one source, medieval nuns used the night of December 6th to anonymously deposit baskets of food and clothes at the doorsteps of the needy.
Due to the modern association with Christmas, Saint Nicholas is a patron saint of Christmas, as well as pawnbrokers (see above). He was also a patron of the Varangian Guard of the Eastern Roman Emperors, who protected his relics in Bari. So beloved is St. Nicholas by Russians, one commonly heard saying is "if God dies, at least we'll still have St. Nicholas."
Credited with starting the tradition of gift giving the Germans changed his name to Sinder Claus and that became Santa Clause.
One legend associated with Santa says that he lives in the far north, in a land of perpetual snow. The American version of Santa Claus lives at the North Pole, while Father Christmas is said to reside in Finland. Other mythological details include: he is married and lives with Mrs. Claus; that he makes a list of children throughout the world, categorizing them according to their behavior; that he delivers presents, including toys, candy, and other presents to all of the good boys and girls in the world, and sometimes coal or sticks to the naughty children, in one night; and that he accomplishes this feat with the aid of magical elves who make the toys, and flying reindeer who pull his sleigh.
So Jesus was born 3 years before the start of the Common Era and died on Easter Friday (Good Friday). The word Christmas itself came from the celebration of Chirst’s Mass. The date of his birth was moved to December so the celebrations could be hidden by a Roman holiday. The tradition of Santa Clause got started when St. Nicholas began the tradition of giving out gifts so that everyone could get gifts on Christ’s birthday. The legend had Santa Claus added to it in Northern Europe and that’s where the North Pole home and flying reindeer towing a sleigh came about.
The reason for the celebration is to celebrate the idea of charity and the gift of giving. To Christians it has the dual meaning of celebrating Christ’s birth, and that was the original intent, but over time things changed.
Don't forget that more than just Western Christians hang out here and we should try and teach all no matter what their background.
2007-12-22 06:59:39 · answer #8 · answered by Dan S 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
um 'they'? i say BCE and CE.
2007-12-22 01:37:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋