Why Some Christians Don't Celebrate Christmas

United Church of God, an International Association ^ | Jerold Aust

[narses]

Many feel that Christmas marks Christ's birthday and that it honors Him. After all, can 2 billion professing Christians be wrong? At the same time, some few Christians don't observe Christmas, believing that Jesus didn't sanction it and that it dishonors Him. Who is right—and why?

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[narses]

[SoothingDave]

Hey, I’m a member of the Disloyal Order of the Moose. ;-)

[CynicalBear]

Yes you are dear but we look forward to your well thought out contributions with great anticipation.

[Alex Murphy]

[ravenwolf]

Just like some one once said , knowing something does not save you but maybe it will make some one else see how they have been misled.

[Revolting cat!]

400,000? Wow, those Katlicks got you Holy Rolling Snake Handlers beat by 10:1!

[Talisker]

Once upon a time ... I use to love all the Holidays.
Then something changed within me.
Halloween was the first to go.
Then Easter went too.
Thanksgiving came and went.
Birthdays flew out soon after.
All it left was Christmas, my favorite time of the year, but that soon changed too.
Many reasons why, besides the pagan connections, and the misinformation handed down to us.

The way I look at it now ... everyday is Christmas, because we should be giving of ourselves everyday to one another.
Everyday is Thanksgiving, for we should be thankful for all that we’ve been given, and to share it with others too.
Everyday is a birthday, because I woke up again from my rest, and I can work on renewing my mind and my spirit once again.
Everyday is also Fathers and Mothers Day, because I cherish the ones who brought me up, all the time.

Halloween ... well, I’ve never really understood what was so hallow or holy about ghouls, goblins, witches, ghosts and spiders, as I tricked and treated along my merry way.

Easter ... wow ... if I only knew then, what I know now.
I prefer to honor the Passover during that season because of the Lamb that was slain is our Passover, and not some pink bunnies, little yellow chicks, jelly beans, and those colored eggs peeps keep rolling around town.

What I just shared might be offensive to some, but I’m not here to do as the world does. I refuse to conform to this world, or to the ways of any denomination, or church in this world.

I just want to look up and say, did I do good today Father, and please be patient with me, for there is much more that I need to work on, and I look forward to the return of the Good Shepherd, for some in this flock have surely lost their way.

Beautiful post. Thank you.

[Alex Murphy]

400,000? Wow, those Katlicks got you Holy Rolling Snake Handlers beat by 10:1!

How could you have us beat, when we've doubled our numbers just within the last couple of hours?

[A child of Yah]

Thank you for your post #20
I realized a few years back, about some of the things you just shared here, and it really got me to thinking about a lot of things I was taught or told.

There was pastor on TV talking about it too, Arnold Murray from Shepherds Chapel really opened my eyes about it all. I no longer can see him on TV because I just have a antenna, but he has a website though that has his broadcasts.

Everything I was taught, from the Garden of Eden to the Book of Revelation was misinformation, or unknowingly distorted.

Now, I just keep studying, listening, learning, watching, and asking the LORD to lead and guide me to wherever He wants me to be.

Thanks again for being here on this site to share these things.

[Uri’el-2012]

Thank you for your post #20

You are very welcome.

I'm just doing YHvH's command to His followers.

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach

[A child of Yah]

You are very welcomed, and thank you too for being so kind.

[hecticskeptic]

Well, I don't think that the Bible says anything about celebrating Christ's birth. On the other hand, we are told to mark his death regularly.

Luke 22:19 And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.”
... I love Christmas as much as anyone but Christ's birth doesn't save a person. Only his death does that.... 1 John 1:7 “But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.”

[Salvation]

I guess they don't celebrate Advent either. (Even though some have told me they do.)

Plan for Joy in Advent
The Jesse Tree
Advent Wreath & Candles
On the First Sunday of Advent [Angelus]

WDTPRS 1st Sunday of Advent: true Advent preparation
A Recipe for Readiness – A Sermon for the Frist Sunday of Advent
Advent Series: A Look at the Infancy Narratives of Matthew and Luke [Ecumenical] Following the Truth: Avoiding Advent Pitfalls
The Awkwardness of Advent
Cloistered Benedictines top charts with Advent album
Advent: Jesus is Coming!
Why Do Catholics Celebrate Advent? The Call to Begin Again (Ecumenical Caucus)
Resources for Liturgy and Prayer for the Seasons of Advent and Christmas [Catholic Caucus]
New prayers for Advent season [Catholic Caucus[ (Read and Rejoice!)
Father Cantalamessa's 3rd Advent Homily, "The Christian Response to Rationalism"

Father Cantalamessa's 2nd Advent Sermon, "The Christian Response to Secularism"
Evangelization Needs Belief in Eternity, Says Preacher, Father Cantalamessa Gives Advent Sermon to Pope and Curia
Father Corapi: How Do We Prepare Well for the Coming of the Lord
Father Cantalamessa's 1st Advent Sermon: "The Christian Answer to Atheist Scientism"
A Simple Way to Pray around the Advent Wreath: Prayers for Every Day During Advent
Advent 2010 -- Day by Day
History, Customs and Folklore of Advent [Catholic/Orthodox Caucus]
Ready or Not: Here Advent Comes
The Journey To Bethlehem is Not Comfortable! (Last week of Advent)
Humble Praise and Joyful Anticipation: Fourth Sunday of Advent

Celebrating Advent in a Culture of Fear
Grave of the Craving (Do We Embrace our Dependence on God during Advent?)
Advent -- A Season of Hope
A New Holiday Tradition -- Construct a Jesse Tree with your family during Advent
Pope on Advent: With Jesus, there is no life without meaning
Advent: Awaiting God's Justice -- Pope Benedict XVI
St. Andrew: Lighting the way for Advent
Advent Reflections for 2008
Bringing our fallen-away relations back to Church during Advent
History and Symbolism of the Advent Wreath

Rediscovering Advent in the (St.) Nick of Time
Catholic Traditions for Advent and Christmas
Mary's Gift of Self Points the Way, "The Blessed Mother and Advent", Part 1 of 4
The Perfect Faith of the Blessed Virgin "The Blessed Mother and Advent", Part 2 of 4
Theotokos sums up all that Mary is: "The Blessed Mother and Advent", Part 3 of 4
Reclaiming the Mystery of Advent, Part One: The Meaning of Advent
Renewing the Mystery of Advent, Part Two: The Witness of John the Baptist
Why “Gaudete?”, Part Three (Third Sunday of Advent)
Sunday before Nativity
Holy Mary and the Death of Sin - "The Blessed Mother and Advent", Part 4 of 4

Catholic Liturgy - Rose-Colored Vestments on Gaudete Sunday
Advent through Christmas -- 2007
Immaculate Conception Novena -- starts November 30th [Catholic/Orthodox Caucus]
Advent 2007 -- Day by Day
Making Advent a Reality (the seasons are out of whack)
The Advent Workshop -- lots of information and activities
Jesse Trees (genealogy of Jesus activity for families)
Advent Wreath & Candles (Prayers for the Family)
Advent Overview
Reclaiming the Mystery of Advent, Part One: The Meaning of Advent

Celebrating Christ’s Advent [Archbishop Raymond Burke]
Praying through Advent -- 2006
The Paradox of Advent
Experience the Joy of Advent
Advent: the Reason for the Season
The Advent Wreath
Advent Activity - The Jesse Tree
That incredible shrinking Advent-Christmas season (Christmas should start, not end, Dec. 25)
Advent Thoughts: Some of the Church Fathers on the Divinity of Christ
The Relationship Between Advent and the Change in the Seasons (Dom Guéranger)

[FAA]

“Any one who has studied history knows that Jesus was NOT born in the cold and freezing month of December….more likely in September around the time of Yom Kippur. The celebrations by the pagans of the winter solstice led the church to incorporate those celebrations into its system to gain support.

Those are the facts of history.”

Ditto. Many modern holidays are hijacked pagan dates of observation since, in plying native populations to the new faith, they tried to make it as palatable to them as possible.

Not wrong, just the way it is.

[Uri’el-2012]

Any one who has studied history knows that Jesus was NOT born in the cold and freezing month of December….more likely in September around the time of Yom Kippur.

Why Yom Kippur ?

Why not during the Feast of Tabernacles.

When John said He Tabernacled among us.

See 20 above

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach

[editor-surveyor]

Christmas is not “Christian” by any measure, and it displeases God immensely when the world worships the Sun god in the name of his Son.

[Nifster]

That’s as good a festival to pick for that time of year as the day of atonement….

I have no quarrel with that

[Petrosius]

Christmas is not “Christian” by any measure, and it displeases God immensely when the world worships the Sun god in the name of his Son.

Funny, when I go to Christmas Mass all of the Bible readings and prayers are about the birth of Jesus Christ. It must not be the same at the Christmas services that you go to.

[editor-surveyor]

>> “Catholics are THE Christian church” <<

.
But they are most certainly not The Way!

The Way is what Yeshua’s perfect sacrifice gave us, and against which the RCC does battle every minute of every day, denying Yehova’s perfect feasts and worshiping on the days of the feasts of the sun god and his harlot wife.

[editor-surveyor]

Christmas is an abomination, and a stench in the nostrils of Yehova.

It is the very same disobedience that sent Israel into captivity, now repeated systematically by the RCC.