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Shawnn J
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 Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 10:27 pm Post subject: If Jesus never said anything about Christmas then why do we celebrate it if he has never been apart of it? |
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| Christmas tree decoratingchopping a tree out of the forest fastening it with nails so that it doesn't moveChristmas carolinggift exchanging and of the other things we do for a holiday in which Jesus has never been part of, does Jesus approve of these practices and does the bible say anything about the Christmas holiday, does God allow people to chop down trees and kneel down before the the tree to put presents under the tree are we worshiping the tree in some way,and why do we celebrate Christmas if Jesus has never been apart of Christmas and we can't put CHRIST back into Christmas or something that he has never been apart of in the first place???this question was posted on 4-26-08 because I was born 25 days after Christmas and I have Christmas questions coming to my mind. |
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JC4
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| Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Jesus, according to Christian mythology, was a Jew. |
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Divine Wind
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| Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 10:31 pm Post subject: |
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| The Bible says not to decorate trees - that it's Pagan. The whole holiday is Pagan and originally had nothing to do with Christianity, just like Easter. |
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Tanya Midnight Atheist
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| Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 10:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Christmas is celebrate Jesus' birth. |
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Todd T
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| Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Christmas is the Christian "hi-jacking" of a previously celebrated pagan holiday. Saturnalia and/or Yule were Winter solstice holidays. When Christianity became prominent, the Pagan meanings were replaced with Christian meanings. The original holiday, the day when days start to grow longer, was the birth of the sun. Nobody wants their holidays taken away, so it has become the birth of the SON.Dionysus was born on Dec 25 to a virgin human mother and a God for a father way before Jesus was born. This is where associated traditions (the lighting of evergreens) come from as well.This answer often gets a lot of thumbs down, but it is truth. Look it up. |
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Surenne
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| Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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| My beliefs are...Christmas is about celebrating Christs birth. He was born, thats what we are celebrating, therefor he was a part of it. I dont know about you, but I dont kneel when Im putting gifts under the tree, Im usually standing and then I bend over, so no we arent worshipping the tree in any way. lol Giving gifts is symbolic to the gifts the wisemen brought baby Jesus. |
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Happily Happy
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| Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Jesus has never said that he is begotten son of Godhe never said anything about trinityhe never said anything about original sinhe never said the he was send to gentile, he said exact contorary to it.he never said that he is come take sin of humany and get crucified. |
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RAPTOR
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| Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Because Christmas is a Pagan holiday.Which is especially ironic, considering how many Christians whine about "The war on Christmas." Shouldn't THEY be the ones waging that war? |
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oobaby
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| Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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| well its kinda like asking for someone to throw you a birthday party.....but i do agree that its way commercial now and people seem to not even know what they are celebrating |
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Terri G
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| Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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| When the idea of Christmas was first made, we for some reason thought that time period was near Jesus of Nazzareth's date of birth; though we now know we were wrong, it was really sometime in March-May.We celebrated it because of tradition since then, though. And as for the way we celebrate it; that is just slow 'evolvement' of the holiday over time. |
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Face it, god's not real
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| Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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| the christmas celerbration predates christianity and was usurped by the god botherers. It's not a christian festival. |
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huffyb
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| Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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| It was made to fit in with the pagan celebration of the winter Solstice. |
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t_a_m_i_l
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| Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Jesus is the Christ.Christ is in the mass.The first Christmas was when the 3 wise men finally found Jesus in a house (a toddler). They were bringing gifts for the new born King of Israel. For they had seen His star in the sky.http://www.bethlehemstar.net |
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HTacianas
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| Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 10:35 pm Post subject: |
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| The entirety of Christianity decided that we would celebrate the birth of Jesus during the winter solstice to give Christians a celebration of their own in counter to the pagan celebrations occuring at the same time.And decorating trees has never been a part of Christ's Mass, but is only a secular tradition practiced in the Western world. |
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Angela
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| Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 10:35 pm Post subject: |
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| I am fairly certain that the term Christmas comes from the words Christ Mass. In the Catholic Church one goes to Mass on Christmas Day, and traditionally throughout history it was a time of Celebration.....celebrating THE BIRTH OF THE SAVIOR. Various cultures added their idiosyncratic traditions to the general TRADITION OF CHRISTMAS, so to speak. Germans, Dutch, French, English....and so, in America Christmas appears to be a melting pot of traditions, and true it is....the soup is so thick......you can't see Jesus anymore. .........PS......added note.....our materialistic capitalistic consumeristic sell sell sell society certainly did create a strange kind of Santa Claus, too.....who pretty much took the thing over......what does that tell you? |
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