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Must Christmas Be Celebrated
The Bible never commands us to celebrate Christmas or observe any other festival allegedly borrowed from traditional Pagans. Can we then, as proponents of Jesus Christ luxuriate in an increasingly commercialized and secular Holiday?It is correct that many Pagan Vacations occurred in the month of December. Nearly all the states surrounding the Mediterranean Sea held festivals celebrating the Winter Solstice. The Winter Solstice according to the Julian calendar was December 25th.
It is indeed fact that by selecting December 25th, the Church chose a date where worship of false deities was performed. What is frequently misstated or entirely ignored is the Churches intent in selecting this date. The Church by choosing the solstice was able to line up a festival to rival the Pagan festivals, that has almost completely eradicated the parties to these false Gods. The bible never immediately states that we are to celebrate the birth of our Lord.
Not like the 10 Commandments which are explicit, Some people believe their is an implicit directive to celebrate Jesus birth. These are some evidence of the Angels ' reply to the arrival of the Christ in Luke ; All of a sudden a great firm of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising god and pronouncing, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favour rests." Luke 2:13-14 NIV The Angelic Host, after having informed the watchful shepherds of the incarnation of the Savior and how to recognise Him broke into a song of praise and blessing.
The Sheppard's react in much the same manner after seeing the Christ kid as Luke records ; The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told. Luke 2:20 NIVThese unplanned acts of worship certainly qualify as a celebration of the arrival of the Christ. The commercialisation of Christmas is certainly a fact. All one desires do is look around them, from television and radio, to magazines and store front adverts, we are inundated with sales pitches. We are told that we must have the most recent and best thing.
This kind of party of Yuletide would be idolatrous. Our party of Christmas should take on the approach of the Angels and shepherds. As Christians our party must be one of awe, wonder, thankfulness and joy. Our party is to be a regular daily party of one of the greatest moments in redeeming history. Until He comes again we should celebrated His first incarnation in a way suggest by an unknown song writer in round the eleventh or 12th century.
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