Tommorow is the 25th of December and it is the Christmas day. Christmas and football (world cup) are the two biggest events in the world. It’s common information that Christmas is not a Christian day but a pagan day that has been CHRISTIANISED.
It is common information that Jesus CHRIST of the Bible was not born on the 25th of December. So those who celebrate Christmas are not Celebrating Jesus’s Birth Date but the fact that he was Born.
WHOSE DAY
Again, while the Christians, arrogantly claim the day to belong to them, the facts on the ground demonstrate that the day belongs to pagans and all their pagan behavior. Many have stocked alcohol, many will be fornicating and committing adultery, many accidents, too much greed and all sorts of indulgences like stealing, killing, fighting forbidden on the pulpits of the church.
This is not a matter of Christmas abuse but a fact that Christians stole a Lion and since then, they have been struggling to tame it and the fact of the matter is that Christians have failed miserably to completely cleanse a pagan day from its rituals.
BIRTH CELEBRATION
It has always been pagans who celebrate birth days. In the Bible there are two records of Birth days and they both belong to pagans. The first is in Genesis 40 where Pharaoh at his coronation celebrates his birth as a god and on that day, he kills someone. The second record is in the New Testament (John 6) and it is of the Roman Herod, who celebrated his biological birthday and on that very event he killed someone.
So both birthday celebration records we have in the Bible end up in the TAKING OF LIFE. Birthdays in the Bible therefore are events where to celebrate the launch of a life is to take an existing life.
ARE WE COMMANDED TO?
There is no where in the Bible where we are asked to celebrate the Birth of Jesus Christ. It is our human invention and therefore there is scriptural mandate neither a theological necessity to celebrate the day.
The question we should ask however, is whether there is a sin in celebrating what we haven’t been asked to celebrate. We’ll, that is a question that can be answered by the manner in which we celebrate and the audit report after every Christmas party.
WHAT IS JESUS’S BIRTH?
To all of us, our birth is important and significant in two ways.
1. It marked our beginning. Our birth is important for that is when we begun to be and to do.
2. One’s birth matters if later in his life, did any significant thing. The significance of what that person could be that of Hitler or that of Theresa. Either way, their death matters due to the effects and affects of their lives to and on the lives of many.
With Jesus, His birth did not mark his beginning of being. He was, is and will always be the only God who is the FATHER, SON and SPIRIT(Titus 2:13). so he got incarnate (John 1:1-3,14) and therefore his birth was not equal to our birth, for WHO was born by man was WHO was before man that bore him and WHO was born by man was WHO made man.
So we don’t celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ as that of Herod or yours. His birth is not a biological beginning. His birth is the reverse of that birthday celebration of the pagan world. While Pharaoh celebrated the day he became a god at his coronation as king/emperor, God’s birth is a celebration of the day he became man.
Pharaoh is born as a god to rule and torment his people, God is born as man to lead, love and save his people (John 3:16). We all celebrate our birthdays because we have become good and great people, but God celebrates his birth because he has become less and vulnerable for the sake of those he loves.
BIRTH OR DEATH?
God unlike all of us, was not born to live and be great, he was born to die. He asked us not to celebrate his birth, (afterall he was not born per birth but just became man=John 1:14) but rather he asked us to celebrate his DEATH (1Corinthisns 11:23-25, Mark 14:22-24).
The birth of God doesn’t matter, if it matters that means the woman who bore him matters, what matters is the DEATH OF AN ETERNAL GOD. The greatest miracle is that an eternal God lay down his life for those he loved (John 15:13) and the gospel is that he resurrected and whoever believes him, is saved eternally (John 3:16-20).
REAL CHRISTIAN CELEBRATION IS THE DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF AN ETERNAL GOD. NOT HIS BIRTH FOR THE CHRISTIAN GOD HAS NEVER BEGUN.
God bless you, I invoke Truth, Reason and Faith (2Tim 2:7)
Priest Isaiah White
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