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Bible Question: Are we as christians wrong for celebrating Christmas? (I will take opinions as well for this answer)

Bible Answer: Dear Hancock :: The remembrance of the "Christmas Story" from the Gospels is never wrong at any season of the year. When I was but a boy, I committed to memory the "Christmas Story" that Luke told so beautifully in Luke 2:1-20. For years I've gathered my children -- and now my grand-children too -- around the fireplace at Christmastime and recited this passage from Luke's Gospel in the majestic words of the King James Version. ..... But what the world means by Christmas is another thing. It is what C. S. Lewis used to call "the commercial claptrap." Lewis also used to lament that dreadful business of having to exchange gifts, which was more out of habit and custom than anything else. He observed that perfectly rational people would actually buy some useless trinket for a friend but they would never think of buying anything quite so absurd for themselves. ...... Your question has to do with whether it's wrong for Chrstians to celebrate Christmas. That depends in large measure upon which Christmas we celebrate, it seems to me. Do we put our emphasis on Santa Claus or on Jesus Christ? Are we more agog about what gifts we hope to get than about the gift of His Son that God has already given us? ...... Every year we hear someone remind us that He is the reason for the season. We hear it so often, in fact, that we may cease to listen to it. Yes, it's a trite saying, tired and worn out, and yet it doesn't hurt us to listen to it once more. He IS the reason for the season. ...... So let me wish you a Merry Christmas in the best possible sense of the term. --Hank