Where in the bible does it say when christmas is supposed to be celebrated. Where does the bible give instructions on HOW to celebrate christmas?
Is the word "Christmas" mentioned in the bible at all?
2007-12-25 01:41:03 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The birth of Christ is described in the New Testament Gospels. Luke gives the most detailed account of the birth of Christ.
The term Christmas is not mentioned in the bible. In fact, the practice of celebrating the birth of Christ came around much, much later (about 200 years later!)
Early on in the Christian church, Easter was the main holiday and the birth of Jesus was not celebrated. Somewhere around 400 A.D. the church decided to celebrate the birth of Jesus as a holiday. The Bible does not mention date for his birth.
If you look at the Bible as a historical document, the birth of Christ was probably in the spring. This assumption is made because in Jesus' time, in his place of birth, winters were harsh and shepherds would not be out, tending a flock, in the middle of winter. There are numerous other reasons to make this logical assumption as well. There are many clues, backed up by history, to assume that Christ was born in the spring.
When the church decided to celebrate the birth of Christ, Pope Julius I chose December 25 as the day it would be celebrated. The church chose this date in an effort to absorb the traditions of the pagan Saturnalia festival. This festival was celebrated by Romans in honor of Saturn. During the same time of the year, Romans observed Juvenalia, a feast honoring the children of Rome.
Later, the date stuck because it coincided with many cultures' winter solstice festivals. This made the celebration of Christ's birth acceptable to many cultures as Christianity spread. First called the Feast of the Nativity, the holiday spread to England by the end of the sixth century.
2007-12-25 01:58:10 · answer #1 · answered by N F 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It says nothing about Christmas at all. Colossians 2:16 as mentioned several times in other answers is concerning the Mosaic Law and festivals celebrated under it. It is not a free pass to anything someone wants to do.
The Bible does have guiding principles for things that were not around in Jesus and the apostles' day.
The Bible takes a dim view of birthdays. "The day of ones death is better than ones being born." -- Eccles. 7:1. Meaning that at birth, what has a person done? What is to be celebrated? At death however, the total life accomplishments could be celebrated. Neither Jesus nor his followers in the 1st century celebrated Jesus' birthday. If it was to be celebrated should they not be the ones who would?
The only records of birthdays in the Bible are two. Both times a faithful servant of God was murdered.
There are many records of detestable things to God. Chief among those is mixing His pure worship with pagan beliefs.
Matthew 6:24 points out a man can not slave for two masters. He must choose one or the other. God or paganism. A little pagan is bad as well. Galatians 5:9 reminds that "a little leaven ferments the whole lump." It takes only a little to pollute everything. Haggai 2:11-13 gives a clear view. Haggai asks the priests if something unclean touches something clean, what happens? The reply was it does become unclean.
An example of God's view is found in Zephaniah 1:4-6. mixing true worship and false is worthy of death.
What we should do is in Ephesians 5:10-11. We must make sure what is acceptable and quit sharing in works that belong to darkness.
The fact is that looking up Christmas in any encyclopedia or reference book shows the origin of everything to do with it is of pagan origins. The date of Dec. 25th is from a pagan celebration of Saturnalia. Drunken orgies were a part of that too. Trees and yule logs are from the Druids. Pagans in western Europe and Britain who enjoyed human sacrifice.
So though Christmas did not exist during Biblical times, we do have guiding principles telling the Bible's view of such things.
2007-12-25 10:46:24 · answer #2 · answered by grnlow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ooops! Actually there is no mention of Christmas in the Bible. In fact its a pagan celebration and became popular in about late 18 c in England. But December 25 had, for centuries, been celebrated as the "birth of the sun god."
Pagans celebrated the birth of their sun god Sol, also known as Brumalia. The day for this worship had been selected in honour of him and December 25 was dedicated for this purpose.
The date of the festival depended upon the pagan Brumalia [The December 25 celebration], following the Saturnalia [an eight-day festival preceding it, and celebrating the shortest day of the year and the 'new sun'.
The pagan festival and (very) merrymaking was so popular that Christians continued celebration with little change in spirit and in manner.
Modern day Christians have adopted this pagan holiday, In many Christian sects it is considered idolatry, since it has nothing more than a heathen day of worship. BTW, mistletoe was considered sacred to the sun, hence its use at Christmas.
If you read the Bible carefully, you will note that Jesus was born in an Autumn month, and many scholars believe he was born in October- but that’s another story… ps. Merry Christmas!! Oh and i'm a Muslim
2007-12-25 10:17:17 · answer #3 · answered by noor.gillani 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible doesn't say anything about celebrating Christmas. It does talk about the birth of Jesus. Since He was born in humble surroundings no one recorded the date of His birth. In any case, the Bible does not mention many birthdays being celebrated except that of King Herod.
Probably celebrating birthdays was not so popular those days. Whether one wants to celebrate Christmas or not, this is one event that tells the whole world that Christ was born on this earth.
2007-12-25 09:53:22 · answer #4 · answered by Andy Roberts 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Christmas is a truly Catholic Tradition, officially celebrated from around the end of the 5th century.
The celebration and feast commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ was duly established, according to the awesome power of binding and loosing, which IS mentioned in the Bible, and which was granted exclusively to the authentic (Catholic) Church ... the ONLY church that Jesus ever founded, authorized, empowered, and eternally guaranteed ... for the purpose of our salvation.
Merry Christmas!
2007-12-25 09:51:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Colossians 2:16 is good. Read it, please.
There are no instructions for celebrating Christmas or any other Christian holiday in the Bible.
The birth of Christ is described in Luke 2.
2007-12-25 09:46:08 · answer #6 · answered by batgirl2good 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why limit yourself to only Christmas ? why stop there ?
Why not just ask where you can find anything at all ?
The fact of the matter is that specifics and details like christmas are a mute point for you to ask.
This is due to the fact that you have, already for ? time, decided that "none" of it exists.
Unfortunately, (for you) the way it works, is that for those whom have in their heart determined that they themselves are the begining, and the end, of all knowlege and authority to create, The Truth, then you will only mockiningly ask and you will only mockingly search.
Therefor no matter how much you ask, you will never find, because you have never "truly" searched.
You have pre-determined what "you" "Want" the truth to be !
2007-12-25 10:05:34 · answer #7 · answered by chuichupachichi 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
At least you will find the God Yahweh's knowledge of the germ theory in The Bible. Which you won't find in Charles Darwin's book "The Origin of the Species" because Charles still believed in the spontaneous generation theory at the time he wrote his book. But what does that have to do with Christmas?
2007-12-25 09:50:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First point is Jesus was not Born
He was a Holy Child from God and he was taken back in the same way
There are many Mistakes in the followings of Christianity
Did Jesus advised the Mankind to Follow the so called Holy Cross?
Have he ever said that he is God?
He clearly stated that the God is in the Heaven ( Or sky or where ever let it be, surely not in Earth) which also has a meaning that he is not the God.
But many Christian follow that Jesus is God, he is born in Earth, the Cross is the Holy Emblem of GOD,
Only his return will give answers to all these questions.
2007-12-25 09:54:36 · answer #9 · answered by tourism researcher 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It does not mention Christmas. I don't think God minds that we celebrate the birth of the Messiah. I don't think he was born on December 25th. But it doesn't matter. It's good to celebrate it.
2007-12-25 09:45:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋