Why do Christians insist on celebrating Christmas?

You are correct!

Most religions interpret the Bible to agree with what they believe

Is right and/or good. People do whatever they want to do, sometimes.

Jehovah's Witnesses do not celebrate Christmas. Jesus never said

To celebrate his birth, only his death. Christmas dishonors

Jesus and his Father.

Look, if a church SAYS "We do this and this is what it means." you don't argue with them. What would be the point? Think of it this way. Christians believe in Jesus, that he is the son of God, and that you can communicate directly with him, and if you believe in him and give him your heart and worship him, stuff like that, you will go to heaven. Okay, do you agree with that? Nothing is written down exactly like that anywhere. not exactly. right? So if you don't agree with that, you might as well get off the bus right here, and not start arguing about anything else that Christians do.

If you don't agree with that, and you still want to ask, think of it THIS way— Jesus was born, and he was born somewhere. For as long as I've been around on this earth, the Christmas story is what I've heard. Since the church says that's how it happened, and I know it happened somewhere, at sometime, why not have a focus and believe that?

And if the church tells me that we celebrate Jesus's birth on Christmas day, fine! I know he was born, and I want to celebrate it, and I'll celebrate it with everyone else, on Christmas day! And it's a good time for us to celebrate, because it's right at the winter solstice and the nights are the longest. Symbolically wonderful! The brightness, liveliness and spiritual boost we get at Christmas makes this time of year—which is when SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) could be the worst—perfect!! No one knows when Jesus was really born, so why not be happy about it on the winter solstice! That's why the early church chose that time, and they were smart!

Also, there is really only one Creator, so whatever the pagans were honoring at that time of year is the same guy as the Christian God—whom Jesus is the physical incarnation of. It really doesn't matter that all religion has a history and was something else before people adopted it, adapted it, and brought it up to date.

I wish that would happen again. All the new religions suck as far as I'm concerned. I'd like to have one that *I* could belong to. Can I invent one? Can I use Christmas as an important holiday in it?

This whole idea of Christmas being a pagan ritual is lost on me. "It has nothing to do with Christ " Um, WHAT? Christmas is nothing more than a celebration of the birth of Jesus. What's pagan about that? And why does it need to be in the Bible that Christmas should be celebrated? Christianity existed before the Bible existed. Christianity originally conceived, and still practiced by Orthodox Christians, relies primarily on an ancient oral tradition, not a book or set of books.

SAS, No one knows when Jesus Christ was born (what month etc), but Christmas is celebrated as symbolic of his birth, and the fact that you call Christmas a pagan holiday shows that you dont know your Christmas history.

The early Church wanted to bring more pagans into conversion to the true faith of Christianity so they made Christmas as dec 25th as it aligned more closely to the winter solstice holiday of Paganism which is dec 21st and it helped to bring many pagans into Christianity this way.

So no Christmas is in no way shape or form a pagan holiday, but the importance is the celebration of teh birth of Christ no matter what exact date it was. Thi is what all Christians celebrate.

As far as something needing to be in the bible to be believed or not, that is called sola scripture or bible alone, and that is not something that the earliest Christians believed in. Th early Christians beleived in both sacred scripture and sacred tradition which was not passed down as writing but was passed down orally by the apostles to the students (the apostolic fathers) and so on.

The word Trinity isnt in the bible yet we still believe in it because it was defined by the early Church as the trinity but it wasnt fully defined until 367 ad.

Without going outside the bible to understood how the stduents of the apostles were taught to interpret the bible correctly and authoritatively we wouldnt know how to fully interpret the bible the way Christ wanted us to.

If you look through the old testament you will see examples of it in the new testament.

For instance When Jesus was preaching against the pharasees and called them a brood of viper he specifically told the jewish people to obey them when they preached from scripture .

Mathew 23:1-3

1Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples, 2saying: "The scribes and the Pharisees have seated themselves in the chair of Moses; 3therefore all that they tell you, do and observe, but do not do according to their deeds; for they say things and do not do them.…

In this Jesus was quoting a jewish oral tradition that was believed by the people and the temple to be divine teaching so they didnt just believe scripture alone was inspired but also the authoritative oral tradition passed from God to the head rabbis and passed down to future temple leaders by Ordination.

The bible itself says that not all of what Jesus said and did were written down in scripture and if they were they would fill all of the libraries of the world.

As a Christian I celebrates Jesus Christ birthday on 12/25 because I don't know the date of his birth. Tell why I should not celebrate that day for him?

Really? What pagan rituals? The memory of the angels announcing the birth of Jesus? The presence of the ox and the donkey -- representing all of creation? The manger? The cave/stable? The wise men from the East? What about this is pagan? It's all directly from the scriptures. The church is perfectly enabled to remember events in its life.

The placement of the celebration of the birth of Jesus at the time of the celebration of the Sol Invictus was a purposeful move to redeem that pagan time. Christmas was not overtaken by paganism; quite the opposite.

Forgive me.

/Orthodox

One of many reasons is that Christmas has been giving the world the vision of world peace (Luke 2:14), on earth peace.

Even terrorists used to respect Christmas and rested from bombing. Unfortunately satan's people seem to work extra hard in this end times to create chaos and confuse people.

Colossians 2:16

King James Bible

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

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Because they don't read their own bible it specifically says to not celebrate pagan holidays or decorate trees in Jeremiah 10 verse 1-5.

Jehovahs Witness's do not celebrate pagan holy-days. Because they know their King Jesus Christ would not approve.