I don't disagree with you but I'd like to add a few thoughts.
While I think it's possible to narrow down His birth more specifically isn't it wonderful that so many celebrate His birth. Perhaps that will lead to a deeper relationship for those that aren't yet working at having one.
Nowhere in the Bible is there a record of a celebration of his birth. I see communion as the celebration He instructed us to remember.
And finally, if we are to have a special celebration that humans create, Easter, in my mind, is the time for it. It is the perfect time, as you so well put it, for "...a quiet celebration with friends and loved ones of the greatest gift ever given Mankind. And a humble request to be worthy of it."
So very well put. Thanks you my FRiend.
Thank you. And Merry Christmas to all on FR.
Interestingly, Zech 14:16-21 speaks of all the nations coming up to Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles during the millenial reign. This is the only feast celebrated during that time and is the restoration of the proper feast for celebrating the birth of Christ.
Until Christ comes and restores all things, his birth is destined to be celebrated at the wrong time, i.e. Dec 25.
Of course, 'Easter' is from the pagan spring fertility festival to Ishtar. Hence the emphasis on fertility symbols like the rabbit and eggs. The term should be avoided by knowledgeable Christians.
The proper term is the Feast of Passover.
The Church has lost it's way by ignoring the Jewish feast days and their prophetic witness to the person of Jesus Christ.