Constintine changed the date of Christmas to the 25th to coincide with ra,the sun worshippers holiday.
Jeremiah 10 in the ot is pretty clear
10 Hear what the Lord says to you, people of Israel. 2 This is what the Lord says:
“Do not learn the ways of the nations
or be terrified by signs in the heavens,
though the nations are terrified by them.
3 For the practices of the peoples are worthless;
they cut a tree out of the forest,
and a craftsman shapes it with his chisel.
4 They adorn it with silver and gold;
they fasten it with hammer and nails
so it will not totter.
people can celebrate Christmas, their choice, just as the jews don’t celebrate , for a different reason. We all will answer for our deeds. I do like the Christmas specials though! LOL LOL
Interesting that a person gets persuaded by what other people do or don’t do and think or don’t think.
December 25th may be the date of Christ’s conception...even MORE reason to celebrate His dwelling amongst us!
And, don’t forget, God said He was as a great Fir Tree (evergreen, undying).
I shall celebrate Christ’s conception and have a fir tree in my home and enjoy it—Christmas is a great gift.
Last night - but of course, most of the people there were Christians.
I, too, have stopped fretting about gifts and parties and decorating and the inevitable let down the day after Christmas when the bills and pounds get piled on top that we KNOW must be addressed. I remember, as one of five kids, always being a little disappointed with the whole thing. The build up, seeing all the presents wrapped and stacked under the tree Christmas morning, hot cocoa and cinnamon bread waiting after the gifts were torn into and the smell of turkey beginning to roast in the oven, seemed to lead to a let down, and I didn't really know why.
These past several years we have made it a point to NOT make the season about gifts and treats and feasts. My husband and I exchange "mushy" cards and I usually get Mom some new slippers and maybe a robe or nightgown. Nothing expensive. Mom and I fix a special dinner for the three of us - though this year we are having a small Christmas Eve get together with a few close friends (we may do this every two or three years) and I have put up my collection of Boyd's Bears special holiday snowmen and a wreath on the door - no tree, though. All and all it's pretty low key and I find that I don't feel that same let down anymore. I will always love "Christmas" because of what it really represents - the celebration of the birth of the Lamb of God - remembering that precious ultimate gift and making new traditions that become our very own to be treasured year after year.
Thank you for your article.
I'd do the same if it were just me, although I do love the Christmas carols and I enjoy the bright colored lights at a particularly dreary time of the year. They're very pretty.
However, I am outvoted by the rest of the family, so up goes the tree and everyone does their shopping.
Interesting how angry people get over a man-made tradition.
Food for thought to me. Christmas is a purely man-made birthday celebration, but the bible richly and often requests a celebration of the death and resurrection.
So does Christmas please God? I don’t know. I like Christmas. I wouldn’t tell anyone it is wrong, but neither would I slam the door on any discussion of the merits.
People constantly over-analyze these things-especially Christmas. The article sounds like someone who can’t afford fancy gifts and wants to justify not buying presents because the “Holy Spirit” told her to do it. Sorry, but if people think Christmas is about giving gifts (even expensive ones), then they completely miss the point.
I for one love Christmas. I love the lights, the decorations, the cookies. I love going to church and singing the carols that we don’t get to sing through the year. I have my USB Christmas tree up at work and proudly display my Santa on the mantle (we always told my son that we pretend there’s a Santa Claus). The snowman collection is out and the nativity is in the breakfast area where we see it at every meal. I don’t need or want presents. I’d be happy with a bit of fruit cake on Christmas day. But I told my family that if they feel the need to get me something, they can get me one of those plastic drawer containers from Wal-Mart or Target for $7 bucks. I love those things.
And what tweeks every atheist’s nose and hand-wringing Christian is that Christmas does come round-year after year after year. And every year we see articles like this saying why we shouldn’t have Christmas. I say bah humbug. It’s really man that doesn’t want it. But it’s God that ordained it. So let “Joy to the World” play once more. I never grow tired of it.
Nothing says you have to buy into the commercialism to celebrate His birth. Much fun entertainment has been put together to attract attention of kids and they enjoy it - whether you allow your children to engage or not, they will hear about it and see the happiness other kids are experiencing - gonna sit a child down and tell him/her that Jesus (who is their special Friend and who loves them dearly) is demeaned by all the hoopla so it is bad to have fun the way everyone else is? Just asking - I agree it is overboard, but that is no reason to shun the Season.
Translation: It’s all about me
We have not had a “Christmas Tree” in our home for years and years. Instead, a very large wooden cross is put up in our yard with a spot light. It is our personal way to “celebrate” if you will. The same cross goes up at Easter as well. For us, “Christmas time” is a way for us to remember and reflect and be thankful to God for the birth of Christ Jesus, who is now our King.
One word. Advent.
Soon in fine bookstores nationwide.
You have to make it about Jesus - When I was a teenager a lot of our friends used to come to late night church with us even though they weren’t Christians or they may have been lapsed. Either way it then became about them hearing the story of Our Lord’s birth. I will always remember how awesome those hot Aussie nights were with the Church packed to the rafters - everyone singing real Christmas songs to God. The Holy Spirit almost tangible in the place.
Mel
Apparently, it's about somebody named Kirchoff.
Once again...nothing is more pitiful than a declared 'atheist' obsessed with God.