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Is Christmas And Not Xmas . by ihedioramma: 3:41am On Dec 25, 2014
to tell some one happy xmas e.t.c xmas is wrong it is christmas. happy christmas to you that is reading now and may you see 2015. if we dont stop it now one day some will ask you rmas,umas,tmas,lmas e.t.c .
Re: Is Christmas And Not Xmas . by KLand(m): 5:33am On Dec 25, 2014
Noted.

Merry Christmas.
Re: Is Christmas And Not Xmas . by Tonykings: 6:26am On Dec 25, 2014
Where did you come up with this nonsense?

"X" comes from the Greek letter Chi, which is the first letter of the Greek word Χριστός which comes into English as "Christ"

For starters, the Greek alphabet has been around 800 years longer than Jesus, so if any correlation has occurred it would be that ‘Christ’, like almost everything else in Christianity, was derived or taken from the Greek letter.

Now, obvious fact notwithstanding, if the authors of this article actually knew anything about history, which clearly they don’t, they’d know that the reason Jesus’ name is “Christ” is because the the most common language spoken around Jesus’ time was Aramaic and Latin, the Latin language being spoken predominantly by scholars, which subsequently uses the Greek alphabet as its base, hence the use of the letter X.

Just in same way that the labarum, often called the Chi-Rho, is a Christian symbol representing Christ.

Seriously, when some people don’t know the answer to something do they just make it up in hope no one with a basic education will find out?

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