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Six Churches That Don’t Celebrate Christmas And Why by Wisdomkosi(m): 12:44pm On Dec 25, 2023
Check Out Six Churches That Don’t Celebrate Christmas And Reasons

As we all know that some Christians celebrate Christmas today, others on the other hand have shunned the celebration.

It is imperative to note that Christmas celebration has become rampant among the Christians.

These Christians that celebrate Christmas claim that they are doing it to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.

However, it pertinent to note Jesus wasn’t born on 25th December. The origin of Christmas has been traced to be a pagan worship.

In this report, 9news Nigeria examines six Churches that do not celebrate or participate in the celebrations and their reasons.

1- JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES
This religious organization is one of the biggest groups of Christmas-Shunners. Once upon a time, Jehovah’s Witness used to observe Christmas. This was until 1928, after further study bynone official. The official found that this is based on “false religious beliefs or activities”. Deseret news reports that this is explained in a 1993 book, “Jehovah’s Witness-Proclaimers of God’s Kingdom”.

2- SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH
Just like Jehovah’s Witness, this is Church is also against Christmas celebration.

A publication from them reads: “We do not celebrate Christmas as the Birth of Christ per say since Christ was not born in December”.

He did not want us to celebrate his birth or He (Christ) would have told us when he was born. It has become a money-making celebration with Christ mixed in. It is a paga ritual.

3- DEEPER LIFE
A few years ago, Pastor W.F. Kumuyi, the head of the Church announced to the world that his Church does not celebrate the popular Holiday. Explaining at the 2013 retreat. He said: “We don’t celebrate Christmas nor sing Christmas carol; because Christmas is of idolatrous background “

4- GOD’S KINGDOM SOCIETY (GKS)
GKS believes that there us no single evidence that Jesus was born on the 25th of December. Rather, they believe he was born on October and that Christmas originated from a “noisy pagan festival in honour of the god of the sun”.

The church was started by St. Gideon MeriodereUrhobo in 1934 after leaven Jehovah’s Witnesses with the headquarters found in Warrior.

5- RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS AKA QUAKERS.
This church believes that ” every day is a holy day”, so there is no need to single out just one day to celebrate.

6- MOUNTAIN OF FIRE MINISTRIES (MFM
According to the founder of the church, Pastor D.K. Olukoya, ” We don’t celebrate Christmas because the root is demonic “.

Source: https://9newsng.com/check-out-six-churches-that-dont-celebrate-christmas-and-reasons/

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Re: Six Churches That Don’t Celebrate Christmas And Why by ospreywin(m): 12:50pm On Dec 25, 2023
grin they will runaway from this thread because..... Nothing concern our people, they just want to party and chop life enjoyment

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Re: Six Churches That Don’t Celebrate Christmas And Why by mcbreeze: 12:55pm On Dec 25, 2023
Who cares

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Re: Six Churches That Don’t Celebrate Christmas And Why by MrProlific95: 1:03pm On Dec 25, 2023
Most of us acknowledge the fact that there are some reservations about Christmas. Notwithstanding, the birth any day could have been chosen to celebrate the birth if Christ.

Besides for enemies of Christianity who want to be hypcrite, they should remember that some muslims celebrate Birth of Prophet Mohammad whereas majority of muslims do not celebrate it

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Re: Six Churches That Don’t Celebrate Christmas And Why by Nicepoker(m): 1:21pm On Dec 25, 2023
Church of Christ. Don't celebrate Christmas.

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Re: Six Churches That Don’t Celebrate Christmas And Why by Ance4Liverpool: 1:31pm On Dec 25, 2023
The original Idol worshipers too
Re: Six Churches That Don’t Celebrate Christmas And Why by NFBI: 1:37pm On Dec 25, 2023
It doesn't take them to heaven anywhere

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Re: Six Churches That Don’t Celebrate Christmas And Why by Armaggedon: 1:38pm On Dec 25, 2023
How many people attend them

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Re: Six Churches That Don’t Celebrate Christmas And Why by worldclass68(m): 1:40pm On Dec 25, 2023
For me nah just holiday.....and I must chop rice and chicken cool

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Re: Six Churches That Don’t Celebrate Christmas And Why by aderadio1: 1:53pm On Dec 25, 2023
MrProlific95:
Several of us acknowledge the fact that there are some reservations about Christmas. Notwithstanding, the birth any day could have been chosen to celebrate the birth if Christ.

Besides for enemies of Christianity who want to be hypcrite, they should remember that some muslims celebrate Birth of Prophet Mohammad whereas majority of muslims do not celebrate it
Are you more Christian than the founder of deeper life? All the church's mentioned are Christian church so who is the enemy of Christianity if not Christians themselves.?

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Re: Six Churches That Don’t Celebrate Christmas And Why by sreamsense: 1:57pm On Dec 25, 2023
In christiandom, weather you celebrate Christmas or not is never a crime and optional. Choosing a day to mark a day Christ was born for our redemption worth celebrating. Jesus doesn't need to tell his followers to celebrate or not. How significant you weigh it in your mind will form your opinion or basis? God looks at the motive behind what man does. Jesus is loving saviour, he wouldn't have condemned such when he weighs motive behind the celebration.

It is not everything human knows how to do right in the presence of God, but his loving kindness shines on his followers with right motives weather you celebrate it or not. Even ordinary prayer, followers don't know how to pray right, it is the Holy Spirit that intercedes and reveal our right motives on prayer to God for answer. A compassionate Jesus that went about showing His loving kindness to sinners and humble hearts when he came to dwell among men can not condemn certain Christians for celebrating His birth or not. He doesn't need to tell Christians to do so before they do it or not. Jesus is loving, compassionate, kind and holy. If it were self-claimed prophet Mohammed, you can predict him because he doesn't love except hatred, killings, murder and law upon law. Mohammed can kill for celebrating his birth or not because he was full of hatred and wickedness.

However, Jesus is loving, he can't condemn certain followers because they celebrate him or not. At times, we only put unnecessary load upon ourselves that loving Christ never require from us

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Re: Six Churches That Don’t Celebrate Christmas And Why by RoxyBrownAutos: 2:05pm On Dec 25, 2023
Whether some churches celebrate or not, the truth is Christ is born.The date of birth not withstanding.

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Re: Six Churches That Don’t Celebrate Christmas And Why by Win12345: 2:05pm On Dec 25, 2023
How are they better than others??

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Re: Six Churches That Don’t Celebrate Christmas And Why by Fasindo: 2:09pm On Dec 25, 2023
shocked



Please read this

On the argument that Christmas is a Pagan feast

Another Christmas, and the recycled argument continues on how 25th December is a pagan feast, and how Christ was not born on the 25th.

Some things don’t go well with me, arguments like this that don’t make any logical sense.

Let us agree that Jesus was not born on the 25th, can you kindly suggest to us a new date? And since you know he was not born on the 25th, it therefore means you know or have an idea of the date he was born. Tell us then.

I heard this same argument for Sunday. They said Sunday is a day of worship of the pagan Sun-god and that the meaning of Sunday came from the Sun-god.

I remembered sharing a detailed teaching and telling those propagating that message the reason for Sunday, being that it was the first day of the week, and Christ rose that day and started appearing to his disciples every first day of the week as they gathered behind closed doors in prayers.

I think I should not have wasted my time in doing that, what I should have done would have been to simply remind them that the days of the week as we have them today were all adopted. They are all pagan.

Monday is named after the god of the moon. Thursday is for the Norse god known in Modern English as Thor. Friday is named after the Anglo-Saxon goddess Fríge. Saturday is named after the Roman god Saturn.

There is this impression from some of you that once anything has a pagan origin it is evil and it is impossible for it to be 'Christianized.'

Well, unfortunately, many things came from the pagans, including the papyrus that was used to write the bible in those days. The tradition of offering visitors kolanut in Igbo culture is largely pagan. Even Baptism as we know it today as the pouring of water or immersion in rivers did not start with Christians. Eating pork is pagan. New yam festival is pagan. Ojuju Calabar is pagan.

What some of you fail to see is that the Christian faith must be planted in a culture for it to take root. Even St Paul while preaching to the Areopagus in Act 17:16-34 had to use what the Athens have as an altar to the "unknown god", to plant the message of the living and known God into them.

Once the Christian faith is planted in any culture, it uproots the bad in it and retains the good. This is why once you mention "Sunday" we think about the day of worship in church and not sun-god. This is why 25th December may not be the day Christ was born in your calculation, but it has taken a Christian dimension pushing aside whatever it was known with before. This is why the cross, which was pagan, and seen as a symbol of shame, has now taken a total different meaning the moment Christ was crucified on it.

The pagan cross moved from shame to fame, from gory to glory (let me be looking for rhyme words like a motivational speaker since na watin una wan hear. Nobody should stress me biko.)

#PurestPurity

From Fr. Kelvin Ugwu


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Re: Six Churches That Don’t Celebrate Christmas And Why by Vinnie2000(m): 2:19pm On Dec 25, 2023
Jehovah Witness, GKS or Seven day Adventist Followers who are Civil servants
do NOT Refuse Christmas package from the Govt or their company during December every Year. sad sad

Who Dem dey deceive? 😏😕

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Re: Six Churches That Don’t Celebrate Christmas And Why by Jeon(f): 2:27pm On Dec 25, 2023
Christmas is far from what pple are seeing and celebrating.

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Re: Six Churches That Don’t Celebrate Christmas And Why by Toosure70: 2:29pm On Dec 25, 2023
Jehovah witness get meeting house not church

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Re: Six Churches That Don’t Celebrate Christmas And Why by Oakenshield: 2:31pm On Dec 25, 2023
MrProlific95:
Several of us acknowledge the fact that there are some reservations about Christmas. Notwithstanding, the birth any day could have been chosen to celebrate the birth if Christ.

Besides for enemies of Christianity who want to be hypcrite, they should remember that some muslims celebrate Birth of Prophet Mohammad whereas majority of muslims do not celebrate it
it's surprising that people say christ was born in Dec 25th because it's never written he was born in December because the day was chosen haba

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Re: Six Churches That Don’t Celebrate Christmas And Why by Racoon(m): 2:33pm On Dec 25, 2023
Believe it or not, Christ Jesus was born and I celebrate Him. Merry Christmas people.

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Re: Six Churches That Don’t Celebrate Christmas And Why by Dafresh: 2:34pm On Dec 25, 2023
You live in the world eat food in the world wear clothes made in the world do everything in the world and you have the guts to call people worldly beings. Yes even the foundation of the world is of Idol so all of us have participated on the worldly thing of this world, some of the things Christains use are invented by people who don't believe in Jesus or God, since they don't believe on what you believe why not stop using their products.I guess we can't do without those products.

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Re: Six Churches That Don’t Celebrate Christmas And Why by EmperorCaesar(m): 2:35pm On Dec 25, 2023
And those that celebrate it won't burn in hell

It's useless whether u choose to celebrate it or not

It's consequential too

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Re: Six Churches That Don’t Celebrate Christmas And Why by danijesus(m): 2:36pm On Dec 25, 2023
Lovemeharder:
And my church too.
which church
Re: Six Churches That Don’t Celebrate Christmas And Why by Beremx(f): 2:38pm On Dec 25, 2023
Jehovah witness that says only 440,000 people will go to heaven. Who cares if they don't celebrate Christmas?
Deeper Life than banned it's members from watching television, do they watch television now? I remember how our Deeper Life neighbor in the 90s would sneak into our house to watch football and wrestling. grin grin

As for others, the look like breakaway from Jehovah Witness and Deeper Life that's why they share same doctrine.

Na dem sabi.

Merry Christmas to everyone

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Re: Six Churches That Don’t Celebrate Christmas And Why by ManOfMan: 2:43pm On Dec 25, 2023
More like 5 Churches and one cult-like group

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Re: Six Churches That Don’t Celebrate Christmas And Why by MMWandali: 3:17pm On Dec 25, 2023
I believe the reasons of the seventh day Adventist church and the Deeper Christian life Ministries

Even though I am from an evangelical church that does it, I personally shun it after realizing the truth

I wish well to those who do and earnestly pray that they'll realize the truth without sentiment

But nothing will shake my belief in Christ the Messiah the Son of God

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Re: Six Churches That Don’t Celebrate Christmas And Why by V9cypha: 3:24pm On Dec 25, 2023
I like what someone above said "Who cares?"

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Re: Six Churches That Don’t Celebrate Christmas And Why by Crowdboom(m): 3:34pm On Dec 25, 2023
MrProlific95:
Several of us acknowledge the fact that there are some reservations about Christmas. Notwithstanding, the birth any day could have been chosen to celebrate the birth if Christ.

Besides for enemies of Christianity who want to be hypcrite, they should remember that some muslims celebrate Birth of Prophet Mohammad whereas majority of muslims do not celebrate it

Note: there was no controversial on birthday of Prophet Muhammad (SAW) but celebration because some pple do it to enrich their purse

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Re: Six Churches That Don’t Celebrate Christmas And Why by Spy360(m): 3:47pm On Dec 25, 2023
Christmas at least recognises that Christ who is God's gift to mankind was born.

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Re: Six Churches That Don’t Celebrate Christmas And Why by Matix222: 4:47pm On Dec 25, 2023
Delusional

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