Why do we celebrate Christmas?
During this whole, I will answer that
question from a biblical perspective. Afterwards, I’ll share some helpful
resources, so stick around until the top. Christians the planet over celebrate
Christmas in honor of the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem. Various Christmas
traditions are associated with the celebration of Christmas, and different
cultures celebrate alternative ways. The unifying factor is that the historical
fact that Jesus was born, c.5BC. The angel who seemed to the shepherds the
night of Jesus’ birth said, “I bring you excellent news which will cause great
joy for all the people. Today within the town of David a Savior has been born
to you; he's the Christ, the Lord”. We celebrate Christmas because, because the
angel said, the birth of Jesus is “good news.” excellent news is supposed to be
celebrated. In fact, the angel said the news of Jesus’ birth would cause “great
joy” and would be “for all the people”—the celebration would be universal.
Merry Christmas 2020
People round the globe would be glad for
this occasion. We celebrate Christmas because, because the angel said, “A
Savior has been born to you; he's the Messiah, the Lord.” The three titles the
angel applies to Jesus are important. Jesus is that the Savior who delivers us
from sin and death. He is the human Christ who fulfills the Law and therefore
the Prophets, showing that God is faithful. And he's the divine Lord who has
entered in our world: The Almighty has taken on human anatomy; God and man are
fused together in an indivisible, eternal bond; God is truly with us. In
celebrating Christmas, we celebrate the Savior, because we would have liked
deliverance. We celebrate Christmas with gift-giving thanks to the
“indescribable gift” that God gave to us. We celebrate Christmas by stringing
lights because the sunshine of the planet has come to us. We celebrate
Christmas with carols and choirs because they're expressive of joy and follow
the samples of Mary and Zachariah and Simeon and therefore the angels, all of whom
extoled the Lord in poetry. We celebrate Christmas by decorating evergreen
trees with stars and angels and tinsel due to the life eternal Jesus brings—and
stars and angels and wonder were all related to Jesus’ birth. In celebrating
Christmas, we celebrate the love and pantronage of God. When even one person is
during a life-threatening situation, we understand what has got to be done.
When God looked down at our sinful planet, he saw an entire world of
individuals in mortal danger. We celebrate Christmas because it had been at
Christmas time that the rescuer of all mankind came to save lots of us from the
hopeless situation, we were in. God didn't stay in heaven; he decreased to
where we are.
The Santa Claus and the Xmas Tree
Scientists calculated that Santa would want
to travel to 822 homes a second to deliver all the world's presents on
Christmas Eve, travelling at 650 miles a second. The word “Xmas” isn't actually
blasphemous. The letter X may be a Greek abbreviation for Christ. And guess
what? Jesus wasn't born on December 25th, it's not like that. Many theologians
estimate he was born sometime in September between which means the calendar as
we know it may be out by a few years. Furthermore, it's believed Jesus was
actually born during a cave, not a stable. So why do we celebrate Christmas on
the 25thof December? There are many theories to the present, a well-liked
theory is that December 25th was chosen because the solstice and therefore the
ancient pagan Roman midwinter festivals called' Saturnalia' and 'Dies Natalis
Solis Invicti' happened in December around this date. So, it had been more
convenient to possess all festivities at an equivalent time. There are some
unusual Christmas traditions around the world, for example, in Iceland there
are 13 different Santas including one called "Gryla", who is a
horrifying old woman who kidnaps children on Christmas if they've been naughty.
Xmas Tree
In India fir trees and pine trees are
extremely scarce due to the climate, so Indians decorate banana trees and mango
trees instead. In 1966 a 13-metre tall straw goat was erected within the town
square of Galve in Sweden. At the blow of midnight on Christmas Eve a vandal
burned down the goat. But this didn't dissuade the town, per annum since the
town has re-erected the goat and each year vandals plan to burn it down. The
goat has been burned down quite 25 times. In fact, it has happened so often
that in 1988 book makers began taking bets on the goat’s survival. And just in
case you were wondering, no the town doesn't want the goat to be burnt down, in
fact, in 2001 an American tourist served jail time for successfully doing so.
But you aren’t heard nothing yet. The prize for the foremost uncanny Christmas
traditions goes to, you guessed it, Japan. The Japanese are hooked in to KFC
on Christmas. On Christmas people queue outside KFC's all-round the country to
shop for their Christmas buckets, people even order months beforehand to avoid
the queues. This strange tradition may be a results of a huge multi-year
marketing campaign in Japan by KFC to associate Christmas with KFC and it
worked. Christmas sponge cakes, with topping, strawberries and chocolate
on top also are a well-liked Christmas custom in Japan. KFC picked abreast of
this growing tradition and now offer a Christmas menu in Japan, including a
bucket of fried chicken that features a cardboard bottom with a Christmas cake
underneath and a bottle of champagne.
Story of Santa
There are countless variations of Santa
Claus all round the world, namely St. Nicholas, Father Christmas and Santa
Claus. But what's the difference between them? They all originated from one
man, Nicholas. St. Nicholas was a Bishop who lived in Myra in Asia Minor, which
is now called Turkey, round the fourth century AD. He was a really wealthy because
his parents died when he was young and left him tons of cash. He was also very
genial and had a reputation for helping the poor. There are several legends
surrounding St. Nicholas, one famed story tells us how one-night St. Nicholas
secretly dipped a bag of gold down the chimney of a poor family. The bag fell
into a stocking that had been hung by the hearth to dry. This is believed to be
where the custom of hanging up Christmas stockings come into.
Santa Claus
By the 16th century the stories about St.
Nicholas had become very uncherished, but someone had to deliver presents to
children at Christmas so various countries invented their own mysterious gift
givers. The UK came up with Father Christmas, in France he was known as Pere
Noel. Germany named him 'Christ Kind'. However afterward, Dutch settlers within
the USA took the old stories of St. Nicholas with them and came up with a new
name for him 'Sinterklaas' which turned into now, widely adopted, Santa Claus.
But where does he actually live? There's a lot of debate over this. The UK, USA
and Canada think he lives in the North Pole, the Norwegians believe he's in
Drobak, the Danes say he's actually in Greenland. But the Finns are adamanthe's
in Joulukka, Lapland and Finland's tourist board are bent prove it. Santa's Lapland
property is a powerful 86-acres, he has his very own director. Private meetings
are often arranged with Santa for a hefty almost 1lakh INR. Each year quite 70,000
visitors come to Joulukka to go to Santa and therefore the post office receives
quite 500,000 letters from children round the globe. Santa is in a position to
reply to about 40,000 of them in up to 12 different languages. So, does Santa
really live in Lapland? Well, at the top of the day, almost every country has
its own traditions and stories surrounding Santa Claus, so it's really up to
you who you would like to believe. Now for the large question, did Coca-Cola
turn Santa Claus red? Well not really, the red and white coat dates back well
before Coke's 30 yearlong Christmas advertising campaign. It's believed the red
originates from St. Nicholas, who was the Bishop of Myra, Red and white were
the hues of oral history bishop robes. The truth is Santa has been portrayed
wearing various colored robes including both red and green, for centuries, in children's
literature and paintings. However, Coke are largely responsible for
popularizing the jolly red image of Santa we know today and enforcing it as the
status quo all around the globe. But getting into touch with Santa is simpler
than you'll think, he features a real postcode. Every year postal services
everywhere the planet is flooded with letters to Santa.
The Canadian Post Office received numerous
they found out a special postcode for Santa, it's “H0H 0H0”. You can write a
letter addressed thereto postcode in any language and you'll receive a letter
back from Santa. But where does the oral history of Christmas trees come from?
The evergreen fir has been wont to celebrate both Pagan and Christian winter
festivals for thousands of years. Nobody is basically sure once they were first
used as Christmas trees. But it very likely started about 1,000 years ago in
northern Europe. However, many early Christmas trees were hung the wrong way up
from the ceiling using chains. The first authenticated use of a tree to
celebrate Christmas was within the town square of Riga, Latvia in 1510. The
money behind the world's biggest holiday is celestial.
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