Why I Think Christmas is Not Biblical (Please read OP before posting).

[Strong in Him]

It sounds as if you've reshaped Christmas into your own image.

No, I celebrate my Lord's birth how I choose to celebrate it.
When I was a teenager, we went carol singing on Christmas Eve; back to the curate's house for mince pies/cake then most of us walked round to the church for midnight communion.

However, this doesn't change the reality of how Christmas is generally celebrated, how the world defines the holiday,

I don't care how the world defines the holiday.
The world shouldn't call it Christ-mas at all, because so few, if any, of them celebrate Christ.

and the fruit that results from it. Jesus said you will know a tree by its fruit.

If "the world" - who are not Christian - don't believe in Christ, you can hardly expect them to produce the good fruit of Matthew 7. Which, by the way, is not good deeds because anyone can do those.

While I'm deeply thankful for the Lord coming into the flesh for our sake, I am not going to create my own personal rituals, such as replacing a pagan tree with a miniature empty barn or stall.

Well don't then - no one's making you.

Nor do I feel comfortable celebrating on a specific day when pagan gods are also worshipped.

What other people do, or who they worship, should not prevent you from worshipping God.
All our days of the week and months of the year are named after pagan gods. Sunday after the sun, Thursday after Thor, January after Janus, March after Mars and so on.
How do you avoid worshipping on "pagan days"?

Today, most people adopt an attitude of "if it feels good, do it" rather than aligning their spiritual lives with the Bible.

Why would non Christians, who don't believe in God, align their lives with the Bible? And why would you expect them to?
Do you "align your life" with the Koran? Of course not. You don't believe it; neither do I.

Is not Christmas a tradition of men?

Christmas - Christ's mass - is about Christ and the nativity, which is Scriptural.
Of course, many don't celebrate it as such today - though you'd be surprised how full the churches can get at Christmas, as people come along to sing traditional carols. Yes, they may not believe what they are singing. But our challenge is to present the Gospel and the true meaning of Christmas, rather than throwing our hands in the air and saying, "it's pagan, it's become corrupted, let's ditch it."

Is not Christmas after the rudiments of the world?

Yours might be - don't tar others with the same brush.

I would say "yes" because of the bad fruit that results from this holiday in its entirety by others.

Bad fruit? You mean that some people get drunk at Christmas so we shouldn't have it?

Do you know how much good is done at Christmas?
Do you know how many churches, and individuals, provide free Christmas lunches for those who would otherwise be on their own? Have you heard of the charity "Crisis at Christmas" which is for the homeless? Do you know how many charities have Christmas appeals, and how many people there are who give money to support these appeals? Do you know about charities which collect toys for the children of prisoners, so that they don't miss out because they have a parent in jail? Have you never filled a shoebox at Christmas for children overseas who have nothing?
Have you never heard people saying, "I don't want to invite aunt so-and-so, but it is Christmas after all, and no one should be on their own"?

You can make this holiday into whatever you like, but you cannot control how the holiday exists as a whole by the majority.

I'm not trying to - whereas it seems that you are.
It seems that you are saying, "Christmas is about pagan practices, followed by people who don't believe in God and the Word made flesh, so I'm not celebrating it.

What a shame, when you - and others who feel like you do - could make a difference and show the world the true meaning of the day/season.

 

[RickardoHolmes]

No, I celebrate my Lord's birth how I choose to celebrate it.
When I was a teenager, we went carol singing on Christmas Eve; back to the curate's house for mince pies/cake then most of us walked round to the church for midnight communion.


Christmas - Christ's mass - is about Christ and the nativity, which is Scriptural.
Of course, many don't celebrate it as such today - though you'd be surprised how full the churches can get at Christmas, as people come along to sing traditional carols. Yes, they may not believe what they are singing. But our challenge is to present the Gospel and the true meaning of Christmas, rather than throwing our hands in the air and saying, "it's pagan, it's become corrupted, let's ditch it."


What a shame, when you - and others who feel like you do - could make a difference and show the world the true meaning of the say someone day/season.sn;t

Well Said At the end of the day, we each get to choose how we live our lives and how we choose to celebrate anything

Just because some old book does or does not specify something, does not nor should not dictate our celebrations today. And certainly someone else's interpretation of some book does not apply to me either.