Is Christmas a time of sharing, getting presents from Santa, a time to take a holiday, a time to reflect, or a time to celebrate the birth of Christ? Please reflect its purpose to you and your family?
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For us a celebation of Christ that helps bring us together as a family and gives us an excuse to glut on food.
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As for us, its more than all these- a time and an opportunity that repeats every year to take the importance of Christ's birth and its purpose to much more people.
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Christmas is a LIE! If you study the scriptures then you'll realize that Jesus of Nazareth was actually born in September (5 BC actually) and not December. The reason that the council of Nicaea in AD 325 chose the 25th December as the birth date of Jesus is that the pagans before them celebrated the Winter Solstice as the birth of the Sun (as it is the day where the length of day starts to increase) and as such the birth of the Divine Child (Horus usually). In an attempt to oust pagan celebrations the Christians replaced pagan celebrations with Christian ones and the Jews demonized the things that the pagans held sacred, this includes Yule. Birth of the Divine Child/birth of Jesus christ, you see what I mean? Yule is a time for making those you love the most as happy as you can and helping those around you. I am one of few atheists in my family and as such my family celebrates Christmas, despite any explanation that is similar to the one given here, and I celebrate Yule!
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Me and my family are strong believers in Christ. He is the one that gave us the gift of salvation. The time of Christmas is the time we celebrate His birth and reflect on how He grew in this world. Now we don't only focus this during Christmas though. It's a time to show others that Jesus was human and had a body like ours. He did get tired and he did have to take those first baby steps. It's a time to apreciate how humble Jesus was to come down and suffer for us. It is also a time to spend time with family. Presents are given because you want to show appreciation to them.
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Christmas has changed for me as I have grown older. When my son was little it was all about him, having fun and being together. Now as I am 46 and my son is grown and living away from home, it is merely another day. We get together we eat and we talk , but then, we do that anyway.
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