I understand that for many Christmas is a celebration of culture rather then religion?

Question

but doesn't it bother you that Jesus more then likely was not born around Christmas time and yet every one insists to celebrate it as such anyhow?

Answer 1

Arrrrrrrgh haaaaaaaaaa culture yes I know what that means

Answer 2

The modern celebration of Christmas is a compilation of pagan winter festivals that were adopted and Christianized by the Roman Catholic Church when they wanted to attract and convert pagan followers in the early centuries after Jesus' crucifiction.

The church just decided to celebrate Jesus' birth around the time of the festivals.

Many people think the "Christ" in Christmas is the reason for the season. But it was actually the "mass" in Christmas because of the mass pagan style activities that happend on that day every year which got violently and socially out of control until the reformation of the church.


Christmas isn't Christian and has nothing to do with Jesus.

Answer 3

Nope, why would that bother me?

For example, was your birthday in the middle of the week and you celebrated it on the weekend? Most of us have. Yes I understand his birthday is supposedly a few months off of Christmas, and that December 25th was chosen because it was a pagan holiday thus making it somewhat easier to convert people away from that pagan religion into Christianity.

Even so, I don't have a problem with celebrating His birth on a different day. I honor Him year round as it is.

Merry Christmas everyone and may God bless us all, each and every one of us, even the non-believers.

Answer 4

I am a Christian but I do not celebrate Christmas as Christ's birth. As you mentioned, the Bible does not state when Christ was born, and we are not commanded to celebrate his birth. My family "celebrates" the holiday season as a time of family, giving, and thankfulness for each other.
We do, however, commemorate Christ's death, burial, and resurrection every first day of the week (Sunday) as the first Christians did, as evidenced in the book of Acts. We partake in communion, or the Lord's Supper, at worship services, consisting of unleavened bread and the fruit of the vine (grape juice).
Many denominational "Christians" do not really understand that we are not commanded to celebrate His birth, and just follow through with the traditions of their congregations.
I pray that more people would read their Bibles and see what we ARE and ARE NOT commanded to do as Christians. One's personal beliefs are not a substitute for the Word of God.
I hope this helps... just my answer from my corner of the world. :)

Answer 5

I am Messianic Appostolic Christian yet do celebrate christmas but from a cultural perspective.

Christ MASS has as much to do with Jesus birth then water has with fire.

Its the celebration of the winter solstice. The birth of Tammuz the sungod son of semiramis the moongodess called the queen of heaven.

The papacy (the antichrist of prophecy) merged pagan rituals like this one with "christianity" to atract the noble into their religion. She did the same with easter which is the celebration of the spring equinox.

G-d bless


Erol
http://www.answeringcatholicism.com

Answer 6

Amen ! Christ and the apostles have been all Jews and that they did no longer shop christmas or easter. The early new testomony christians did no longer shop those holidays the two. They stored God's fairs given in Leviticus 23 which blanketed the seventh day Sabbath. A be taught of heritage nicely-knownshows what got here approximately to christianity. study the subsequent to the final paragraph on the information superhighway website shown in source. (A.D. 380 is the date once you ought to in all hazard say that Christianity grew to grow to be the state faith of the Roman Empire. or you may positioned it yet differently: In 380, Christianity grew to become into merged with the pagan Roman state faith.) There you have it...

Answer 7

Doesn't bother me in the slightest, since we have no real valid date for His birth. That's the day we choose to celebrate, that's all.

Btw, I know someone who has no idea what her real birthday is either. When she was born, she was abandoned by her mother at about 6 months old, and no one really knows her actual date of birth.

Should we then not celebrate her birth at all? Sounds sorta mean.

Answer 8

Same as the Queens birthday.
It is celebrated at different times around the world, to fit in best in the year. She is still with us, does she mind.
It is around the longest day of the year, Summer solstice. It was a pagan celebration before the Christians.
Apparently, I wasn't there.

Answer 9

No, it really doesn't bother me. Even if it was changed to more accurately reflect the time of his birth, it would still just be a guess. It's simply the day that's been chosen to honor him, and most people are aware he was born at another time. I've got no problem with it.

Answer 10

For me as muslin, Xmas is just repect for Jesus and no we don't call him christ. I celebrate his birthday, even may not be an accurate birthday.
And yes I do have a christmas three
And for all the Christians who read this group. Have a merry
christmas

Answer 11

Birth records were really hard to come by 2000 years ago. Someone picked a day and that's what his birthday became. Would Christmas be as much fun if it was July 28th?