Interesting Facts About Christmas
by About the origin of the Christmas celebration.
It’s been for 2000 years since Christ was born, yet we still celebrate it. As time went by, many people are now becoming less aware of the reason why we celebrate this season. Many people when asked, “What is the true meaning of Christmas?” They will simply say that it is the time to give and receive gifts. It is very saddening that most people already forgot that the true reason why we celebrate the Christmas season was to commemorate the day when our God and Savior was born.
The idea of the Christmas Celebration is taken out from the Gospel books of the bible. This celebration is not really an original early feast of the Church, and Tertullian and Irenaeus even omitted it from the list of their feasts. The early evident celebration of this feast was done in Egypt, and what is interesting was that Egyptian theologists did not only state the year Christ’s birthday, but also the specific day. They put it on May 20 believing that the ninth month when Christ was born is the same date of their own calendar. The date was settled when the Feast of Saturnalia was introduced and was adopted by the Romans. The very reason for the adoption of the date was to drive many pagans into Christianity. The Christian leaders promised that they can keep their pagan practice, but since Christians don’t really have any relationship with Saturnalia, the Church later declared the date as Christ’s birth date.
The assignment of the specific date of the birthday of Christ, but we can’t do anything anymore about it. We just need to remember that the true meaning of Christmas is just very simple; it is just to remember that there’s once a man named Christ who lived and died for the sins of the world.
Merry Christmas Everyone!
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Post CommentSotiris
On November 30, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Merry Christmas
Juancav
On November 30, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Well done ,the time has come to put things in order,thus leaves out the materialism,in Christmas time.
Joie Schmidt
On November 30, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Nice article – Happiest Holidays ever!
Blessings.
Sincerely,
-Liane Schmidt.
Louie Jerome
On November 30, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Nice article
Unofre Pili
On November 30, 2008 at 7:21 pm
I learned from this. Thanks.
Chris Hamilton
On December 1, 2008 at 10:09 pm
Excellent work.
AC Hamilton III
On December 16, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Great job! Keep telling the true life story with passion and sincerity.
lalacat
On December 22, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Great article, happy holidays everyone!
Dautsey
On December 26, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Actually as a bible scholar of 45 years. Christ was born in the fall of the year, sometime after the primary harvest. After the harvest Ceasar would collect the taxes on all the agriculture and other profits made by the citizenry of the area. When Christ died he was 33 and half years old. He was crucified at Passover which falls in the Spring between mid March to Late April depending on the moon and if it is a 13 month year or not. The Hebrew calander is 28 days long and is a lunar calendar. Which shows he was born during tax time after the late and large harvest Between Mid September to Somewhere in October, very possibly on What the Jews call Rosh Hashannah Feast of Trumpets or On Yom Kipper which means Atonement. He was not born December 25th. The shepherds were still in the fields and had not yet brought their flocks in for the winter months. The Roman goverment hearing complaints from temple priests who served the Roman gods and goddess that thier following were converting to Christianity and therefore no longer bringing gifts and coins to these pagan god temples appealed to the Roman government to do something to regain the Christians back to. It was decreed from Rome Christ was the Bringer of light and one of his names was Mithras who was a pagan god known as the god of light and people before they converted to Christianity would bring gifts, tokens, goods and money to the temple of Mithris during the Satruranalia to appease him so he would bring back the light and spring would come. Temple priests of these pagan gods were given sanction by the Emperor to tell people that Mithras sun god of light and Christ the son of God and light of the world were one and the same. Mithris was born or created on December 25th. Many Christians duped by this returned to worshiping Mithras/Christ and the day eventually became known as Christmas. Christians who had once kept the Saturnalia and had been told by the early apostles to not keep it due to the pagan customs were drawn back and lulled into thinking they were paying homage to Christ. Christmas is nothing more than a pagan lie and sugar coated to make people think they honor God and Christ. But it is one of the pagan customs that God and Christ hate. There is ample documentation in libraries, and on the interent that proves this.