Christmas without Jesus.

[brakelite]

Regardless of its true pagan history, and its irelevance to our present Christian walk, Christmas is still a cool time. People are, at least for a few days, happier, more willing to greet you in the street, smiling more, and most important, many are more open to the gospel. Also, where I live we do not have 'thanksgving', or any equivalent. So for us Christmas is the time of year when families reunite, and come together again after a time apart in different parts of the country.
Yes, Christmas day itself is not the real day to celebrate Christ's birth. In fact, nowehere in the Bible are we instructed to observe His birth at all. Yet the incarnation is a good thing to remember and celebrate and give thanks for. I thank God that He gave humanity His Son. We have in Jesus a divine Person Who is not only God, the Creator of all things, but also just as human as you and I. For all eternity God has linked Himself with mankind through the humanity of His Son. That is worth celebrating and giving thanks for. No matter the time of year, but made more real when together with family with a spirit of love and giving.

PS. I do not think God is happy that so many spend the next several years or so paying off credit cards to pay for it all. Seems to me the stress of doing that far outweghs the few days joy and happiness the Christmas season brings.

 

[ewq1938]

And Pelaides, the Great Pumpkin never comes.

Hasn't yet come but little Linus has faith that it will someday...a clear metaphor for the return of Christ and patiently waiting for it to happen IMO.

 

[heretoeternity]

Professing christians would be better to follow the words, days and commandments which God actually put in His Holy word, the Bible...chasing after some pagan based non Biblical days are from the broad way that leads to destruction...if you want to be on the narrow path that leads to salvation, follow the word of God, His days and Commandments, and NOT the sungod/satan and his artificial non Biblical days....if we do that we give thanksgiving to God, and celebrate Jesus birth every day, or at least every seventh day Sabbath, which comes every week....keeping this Holy day IS a commandment from God, and shows He is our God, and we are His people.

 

[Jun2u]

Firstly, Jeremiah 10 does not speak of making a Christmas tree rather a making of an idol, which is a violation of God's command not to make an image of Him!

Secondly, if December 25 was a pagan festival long ago, tell me is it a sin for a Christian to celebrate Jesus' birth on that day?

To God Be The Glory

 

[heretoeternity]

As Jesus said in the Bible "you follow the traditions of man, and not the Commandments of God, then I will say to you in those days depart from me I never knew you" Mark 7, Matthew 7 and Matthew 15...

Jeremiah 10 specifically mentions bringing a tree into your home and decorating it...God says in Jeremiah 10 "do not do this as it is like the heathen do"....the pagan sungod worshippers in Babylon did this very thing in honour of their sungod, on dec 25th....this is where pagan Rome got it from, and the Roman church carried it forward to this day as part of their pagan based "worship"...

Remember always, salvation is through the Son of God, God's grace and commandments and NOT the sungod/satan and his doctrines and days of sunday, dec 25th and easter, all of which are non Biblical and of pagan origin.