Celebrate

The Feast of the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple, somethimes called Candlemas, occurs 40 days after Christmas.on February 2.

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With love in Christ.

because his birthday isn’t today.

The Chinese count ages starting from birth every Chinese lunar year which you traverse counts one year no matter the month of birth.

A baby born on Dec. 24, 2009, for example, will be two years old on Jan 1 2010 because it will have traversed two years2009 and 2010, whereas its Gregorian age will only be one week.

Bottom line: It matters not what the actual date is, only when we agree on a date to celebrate it.

What our family does to celebrate the gift of Christ to us, is to give something of ourselves to others.
For several years it was to gather together the Meals on Wheels recipients in our area for a common meal. For the past couple years, including today, it has been to hay and water horses at a therapeutic horse farm which gives a riding experience/exercise to disabled children.

because his birthday isn’t today.

The Chinese count ages starting from birth every Chinese lunar year which you traverse counts one year no matter the month of birth.

A baby born on Dec. 24, 2009, for example, will be two years old on Jan 1 2010 because it will have traversed two years2009 and 2010, whereas its Gregorian age will only be one week.

Bottom line: It matters not what the actual date is, only when we agree on a date to celebrate it.

What our family does to celebrate the gift of Christ to us, is to give something of ourselves to others.
For several years it was to gather together the Meals on Wheels recipients in our area for a common meal. For the past couple years, including today, it has been to hay and water horses at a therapeutic horse farm which gives a riding experience/exercise to disabled children.

It might seem silly to ask this question but for spare time.
I don’t get why we celebrate it also known as Easter were everyone is happy… On jesus death?
Or did he really not die on that day?

Jesus died on ‘Good Friday’ and was resurrected on Easter Sunday, therefore Easter is a time of rejoicing. His death is not celebrated but memorialized in the Good Friday services of the Catholic and some other Christian churches.

We celebrate our birthday. We celebrate the birthday of family members, friends and relatives. But why can’t some people celebrate the birth of Jesus? Some of them are even so-called “Christians”. Is it because they do not know when He was born so it is their way of avoiding the issue?

I believe that the reason many Christians don’t celebrate the birth of Christ is because God showed constant and consistent displeasure toward birthday celebrations throughout many areas of the bible. God does not seem to be a fan of birthday parties.

Regarding other religions, many do celebrate Christmas – they just call it something else – something that fits in with their personal belief structure. There are religions older than Christianity that have celebrated or do celebrate their version of the winter holiday at around the same time. For example, Pagans celebrate Yule on the day of the winter solstice, to recognize the rebirth of the sun. Educated Christians will acknowledge that, while Christmas has been set at the same time for hundreds of years, December was chosen to replace the Pagan holiday. Churches were built atop Pagan temples to aid with the conversion of the "heathens." Other holidays were celebrated on certain days or during significant seasonal periods in order to make the crossover easier on those who were being converted. Looking at it as an issue of convenience and acceptance, it was a brilliant tactic.

because it isn’t his birthday today.

Which is why as Christans Jehovah’s Witnesses are treating the day as any other and using it as an opportunity to preach to others about what jesus promises to do to help mankind.

Was Jesus born on December 25?
How did December 25 get chosen as the day to celebrate the birth of Jesus?

Speculation as to the time of Jesus’ birth dates back to the 3rd century, when Hyppolytus (ca. 170-236) claimed that Jesus was born on December 25. The earliest mention of some sort of observance on that date is in the Philoclian Calendar, representing Roman practice, of the year 336. Later, John Chrysostom favored the same date of birth. Cyril of Jerusalem (348-386) had access to the original Roman birth census, which also documented that Jesus was born on the 25th of December. The date eventually became the officially recognized date for Christmas in part because it coincided with the pagan festivals celebrating Saturnalia and the winter solstice. The church thereby offered people a Christian alternative to the pagan festivities and eventually reinterpreted many of their symbols and actions in ways acceptable to Christian faith and practice.

December 25 has become more and more acceptable as the birth date of Jesus. However, some argue that the birth occurred in some other season, such as in the fall. Followers of this theory claim that the Judean winters were too cold for shepherds to be watching their flocks by night. History proves otherwise, however, and we have historical evidence that unblemished lambs for the Temple sacrifice were in fact kept in the fields near Bethlehem during the winter months.

The truth is we simply don’t know the exact date of our Savior’s birth. In fact, we don’t even know for sure the year in which He was born. Scholars believe it was somewhere between 6 B.C. and 4 B.C. One thing is clear: if God felt it was important for us to know the exact date of the Savior’s birth, He certainly would have told us in His Word. The Gospel of Luke gives very specific details about the event, even down to what the baby was wearing – “swaddling clothes”—and where he slept—“in a manger” (Luke 2:12). These details are important because they speak of His nature and character, meek and lowly. But the exact date of His birth has no significance whatsoever, which may be why God chose not to mention it.

The fact is that He was born, that He came into the world to atone for our sins, that He was resurrected to eternal life, and that He’s alive today. This is what we should celebrate, as we are told in the Old Testament in such passages as Zechariah 2:10: “’Shout and be glad, O Daughter of Zion. For I am coming, and I will live among you,’ declares the LORD.” Further, the angel that announced the birth to the shepherds brought “good news of great joy that will be for all the people” (Luke 2:10). Surely here is the cause for celebration every day, not just once a year.

I don’t mean to break anyone Christmas spirit today but I was just wondering if, since Christmas was originally celebrated as Mithras birthday, if it was celebrated the same way? I mean, besides the tree, gifts, misteltoe, and date celebrated.

Yule was celebrated like that, it’s not surprising really that people haven’t let go of those traditions while applying them to ‘Christmas" now…

Most of us are the descendants of those same European pagans..

Everyone has a birthday, even Jesus Christ. What will you do on His birthday?

NOOO! Really? Christmas Day is about Jesus, forgiveness, peace and love thy neighbor?

Somehow I have missed all these messages through my blurry, kaleidoscope of consumerism.

we know December 25 or 24 is NOT his birthday.

Why we don’t celebrate Jesus’s birthday on his birthday?

because early church leader moved it to coincide with the pagan yule to make it easier to force people to switch to christianity