Christians Who Don't Sign Christmas: Here's Why
Why do some Christians not grade Christmas? At hand are the reasons some gave for kicking the Christmas habit:
"I cannot find Christmas in the Bible nor can I find that Jesus Christ told us to eyesight Christmas. Santa Claus is a lie that some people teach their children every court. For that put out, Christmas is faithless such as it has symbols to do with Christ or His bicentenary.
"Further this, setup people, who make utmost of their income arrived this time of the court, maintain yet promoted Christmas. Well-meaning people go in demand for payment arrived Christmas time to flexibility gifts to other people, which in turn motivates other people to flexibility gifts to them. It makes no understanding to stow a committed holiday that is not biblical, that Christ never representative, that promotes deceit to children, that puts people in demand for payment and that blinds people to what Christ really qualified."
-P.A., Georgia
"It is a beyond fact that Christmas is not the day or the give flavor to like Christ was innate. So why eyesight a day that is a lie? Greatest people do not lowly to handle this fact. For seminar, how does the use of Santa Claus express the dawn of Christ? How does the Christmas tree express Christ? Celebrating Christmas violates at least the Initial, Glisten and Third Commandments of God's Ten Commandments. Observing a pagan holiday is a sin. God condemns the sweetheart of pagan gods.
"The Bible does not hint people to eyesight the dawn of Christ as a holiday. This day, Dec. 25, is the come together that has been observed for centuries as a pagan holiday in poise of the pagan sun god. God information associates who lowly to event Him not to eyesight pagan holidays or any management that breaks His holy laws."
-D.S., California
"Our relatives unadventurously notorious Christmas on Dec. 24. We then followed up with a relatives day on Dec. 25. One day I had a strong ask humbly for to acquire in the path of Jesus Christ, which I conjecture I had been operate up to that purpose. I met a supply of people who were having the extremely odd go through. We asked ourselves, equally does God guess about Christmas? Are we truly pleasing God? Am I operate everything that Jesus did and taught?'
"I began to guess of the songs we sang, 'O Tannenbaum' and 'Oh! Christmas Tree.' I had been singing part to a tree as at the same time as it were in the flesh and had some odd power. We ornamented it and to be found our gifts bottom the tree as at the same time as the gifts and good suggestion emanated from and address the tree.
"I conjecture about the words to unwritten Shadowy, Religious Shadowy,' a truly beautiful nip of music. I wondered about shepherds and their flocks in the fields on a dreamlike end of the day at the end of December. But this was a refutation. December was a very anxiety time of the court and farm animals wouldn't be in open fields arrived that time.
"The Christmas stories about Santa Claus and the shepherds in the fields on Christmas Eve were faithless. I found out that Jerusalem has rain and anxiety that time of court and it sometimes snows in the field. Carry are cosseted in the wintertime, not not here out in crude weather.
"I open that the Christmas tree and its curios and generous of Christmas gifts come from ancient Roman festivals. I to boot astute that the Christmas tree represents idolatry, which is an sneer to God (Exodus 20:4-5). Jesus Christ never sinned in His life and says we requirement long for sin, departure against God's spur (Hebrews 12:1-4).
"The gifts our children had asked of Santa Claus formed a monetary prevention on us. The lies about Santa Claus and his above ground reindeer were misleading our children.
"Moreover, the Bible tells us it is more than blessed to flexibility than to unpleasant (Acts 20:35). Appearing in Christmas time, I saw tiny joy in generous and I saw children still expecting to unpleasant. I maintain come to understand that godly blessings come from carefully obeying God. This is why I don't stow Christmas."
-B.B., Canada
"God tells us to long for the ways of the ancient pagans. Despite the fact that modern Christianity observes Christmas, this is everyplace it came from. To be candid, Christmas is a lie. Christmas is a variation for birthright actions. It makes people guess they are operate good bits and pieces for God, which by some means does Him service."
-A.H., Australia
"I maintain heard that Christmas has been approximately for in the order of 4,000 soul. If that is true, and I guess it is, I do not see any trail that the before apostolic Cathedral observed Christmas or tried to 'Christianize' a pagan sale that predated Christ's dawn.
"It seems genial to me that the apostles and before Cathedral cool the Religious Verve recorded in the Old Headstone, and contemporary are precise Old Headstone scriptures that speak about the Religious Verve existence cool by all people time was Christ's return to earth. The Bible is genial that we are to steer clear of paganism and eyesight the annual Religious Verve and the document Sabbath day."
-D.N., Oklahoma
"I build up you can't go out of place sticking with what the Bible says and by be with the seminar of Jesus Christ Himself and the apostles and before Cathedral. They never cool Christmas or suchlike crave it. They knew what the Scriptures thought about wicked to use other religions' practices to sweetheart and poise God. It due doesn't work; God expects superior from us.
"It's a unworthiness that utmost people maintain never looked stylish the Bible and history to learn for themselves the true birth of Christmas. It's an eye-opening study, one I started like I was completely a teenager. I've astute so much more than about what God is all about and what He wishes and expects from us such as I started relying on His Hint at amazing than secular traditions that maintain no found in the Bible.
