How many christians here do NOT celebrate christmas?

Answer 1

I don't.
Today was a normal day, apart from the fact that I had an exam. Otherwise, it was just another Tuesday.

Christmas is a pagan holiday!!!

Answer 2

DEC 25th is just another day to me. Jesus told us to celebrate his death and all around the world in 236 lands on Nisan 14 we celebrate. next year on March 22 2008 at sundown Jehovah Witnesses will be celebrating his memorial

Answer 3

I agree with Lion of Judah's answer, more or less. But I state it more simply.

For some people this date may have some other meaning, but for me, and for the way my family celebrates it, it is a day when we remember the birth of the Savior.

Some people may associate an evergreen tree with other things, but for me... God made all trees, Jesus hung and died on a "tree", the ornaments I hang almost all have significance to remind my family of prophecies fulfilled through Jesus (there are a few that were gifts that don't relate at all). We begin our Christmas celebration with Scripture, and end it with scripture.

And in actually the Holiday CHRISTmas isn't really pagan, it is just at the same time of year as some pagan traditions, and has adopted some of the traditions. When the Church decided to celebrate Christ's birth around the time of the solstice, they gave their celebration a different name. Christmas is no more a celebration of the solstice than Kwanzaa is a celebration of Hanukkah. Christmas is a celebration of the birth of Christ, yes, pagan traditions made their way into it, yes the date was picked to coincide with a pagan holiday. But the pagan holiday WAS NEVER CALLED CHRISTMAS. Christmas has the name of Christ in it.

Merry CHRISTmas.

Answer 4

Did Jesus Christ tell us to celebrate His birth? Absolutely Not!..... However, He left explicit instructions regarding how His followers are to commemorate His death (1 Corinthians 11:23-26)........History convincingly shows that Dec. 25 was popularized as the date for Christmas, not because Christ was born on that day, but because it was already popular in pagan religious celebrations as the birthday of the sun.

The biblical accounts point to the fall of the year as the most likely time of Jesus' birth, based on the conception and birth of John the Baptist.
Why do so many "professing" Christians, seeking to follow the One who said "I am the light of the world" and "He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness" (John 8:12), perpetuate such strange customs whose origins come not from the Bible but from the dark, dim mists of antiquity?

Observances that are rooted in paganism break the first two of the Ten Commandments. Is God pleased when people claim to worship Him by adopting celebrations of pagan gods and goddesses in man-made holidays while they ignore His commanded days and ways of worship?

Celebrating the birth of the sun god or adopting fertility rites to other gods and goddesses violates God's clear instruction: "You shall have no other gods before Me" (Exodus 20:3).

Inventing religious feasts to replace those given by God contradicts His teaching: "You shall not make for yourself an idol ... You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God ..." (verses 4-5, New International Version). Substituting pagan customs and practices for what God has commanded—regardless of how well intentioned it might be—is IDOLATRY!

Answer 5

I like the turkey and the family times, but Biblically there is nothing to indicate that we should be celebrating the birth of Christ.

Answer 6

I don't celebrate December 25th as the birthday of the savior, Jesus Christ.

It's just another day.

edit:

I misspoke. It's not just another day. It's worse than any other day because it's a day when the name of Jesus Christ is blasphemed more than any other day.

Answer 7

Yes, I do celebrate Christ's birth- because it He had to come as a baby- to be able to grow up to die for my sins, and rise again for victory over sin and death. I want anyone that is a Christian that does not celebrate His birth, to tell me way.

COME LET US ADORE HIM

Answer 8

I don't really celebrate Christmas more than any other day because to me each day is a day that the Lord has made with an opportunity to rejoice and be glad in it as I seek to glorify Him in all that I think, say, and do.

It has nothing to do with the so called "pagan origins" of the Holiday because I know what the Bible teaches.

Romans 14:4 Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand. 5 One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.

Back in the days when the Apostle Paul was writing there were disputes about whether or not a Christian could eat meat that had been sacrificed to an idol in a pagan temple. Here's what he wrote and the principle is still valid today in regards to questionable matters like the celebration of Christmas.

1 Corinthians 8:1 Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that "all of us possess knowledge." This "knowledge" puffs up, but love builds up. 2 If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. 3 But if anyone loves God, he is known by God.

4 Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that "an idol has no real existence," and that "there is no God but one." 5 For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth--as indeed there are many "gods" and many "lords"-- 6 yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.

7 However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, through former association with idols, eat food as really offered to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

In other words, if a person thinks that they are sinning by celebrating Christmas then for them it is a sin. As to the rest of us who know better, we should not look down on them or try to coerce them into celebrating the holiday because they associate it in their minds with paganism. They on the other hand shouldn't sit in judgment of Christians who know that there is only one God and that He owns everything and sees the hearts of men so that if a Christian chooses to set a aside a day to honor the birth of the Lord Jesus then they have that freedom before God to do so.

Answer 9

Me, I do not celebrate it.

Answer 10

Me