The Christmas Thread: Merry Christmas!

[Ruth]

 

[Ruth]

Please remember if someone irks you enough you can put them on ignore.:eace:

 

[Ruth]

 

[Stravinsk]

Please remember if someone irks you enough you can put them on ignore.:eace:

:smirk:

Pennies to dollars she's talking about me, and I am amused at the passive aggressiveness, and more so by the idea someone thought they were being sneaky. Comes with territory of living in fantasy land.

 

[Ruth]

 

[Ruth]

 

[Ruth]

 

[Ruth]

 

[psalms 91]

Thank you Ruth I love their music

 

[Lamb]

 

[psalms 91]

I love that scene and look forward to it every year

 

[tango]

I know a lot of celebrants would prefer to think that. Christmas traditions as celebrated in the west are largely based on numerous pagan holidays and practices, including, but not limited to, Saturnalia. People who think otherwise simply live in the fantasy land of "coincidence theory" because of their culture - it's easier to.

I read an interesting article recently that suggested the pagan festivals were actually copies of an early guesstimate of when Christ was born, although the guesstimate was based on a tradition along the lines of prophets dying on the same day as their birth or their conception. The gist of it was that the date of Jesus' death was pegged around March 25, tradition held that he was conceived on the same day, add nine months for gestation and you end up with December 25 as his date of birth.

I don't recall the article indicating what, if any, basis there was for the tradition holding that death and conception were the same day but it cast doubts on whether or not there was a pagan festival held on December 25 prior to it being selected as the date for Christ's birth.

In many ways the whole idea is academic, since Jesus never told us we were supposed to celebrate his birth and the exact date doesn't seem to be recorded. Then there's the issue of whether the best way to "keep Christ in Christmas" is to fight endlessly over the precise name of it, or to get busy doing the things Jesus told us to do (loving each other, looking after the needy etc).

 

[Stravinsk]

In many ways the whole idea is academic, since Jesus never told us we were supposed to celebrate his birth and the exact date doesn't seem to be recorded. Then there's the issue of whether the best way to "keep Christ in Christmas" is to fight endlessly over the precise name of it, or to get busy doing the things Jesus told us to do (loving each other, looking after the needy etc).

I do not believe there is a single holiday bearing the name of Christ that is introduced by Christ as a new holi (holy) day. Christ (and even Paul) said to keep the feast of Unleavened bread. I have never been to a church that actually does.

As a side note (since it relates to the season), I do not see how a Roman calendar filled with names of rulers and 'gods' (and that had to be changed so it could be relevant - see Julian to Gregorian) could possibly be approved of by God.

But if people want to sing about the 25th of December (or 24th as it were) being a "Holy night" - go right ahead - but it's all tradition, and that's it.

 

[NewCreation435]

This thread is for everything that involves celebrating the Christian Christmas holiday including Christmas greetings.

Merry Christmas Ruth

 

[Lamb]

I really love nativity sets. I couldn't find the one we have but this is pretty close:

 

[~Jo~]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDt3u2Ev1cI

 

[~Jo~]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxm1FlLSfe4

 

[Ruth]

Merry Christmas Ruth

Thank you. Merry Christmas to you!

 

[Ruth]

 

[Ruth]