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- Why Don’t Jehovah’s Witnesses Celebrate Christmas? - JW. ORG
Get the facts: Do Jehovah’s Witnesses celebrate Christmas? What do they believe? Here are 4 reasons for some of their choices
- The People Who Missed Christmas: The Innkeeper - Grace to You
Some were sentimental, saying Christmas is a family time, a time for children, and so on Others were humanistic, seeing Christmas as a time to celebrate love for one’s fellow man, the spirit of giving, and that sort of thing Others were crassly hedonistic, viewing Christmas as just another excuse to party
- Holidays and Celebrations - JW. ORG
Holidays and Celebrations The fact that Jehovah’s Witnesses do not participate in most holiday observances and other celebrations can be somewhat perplexing to a teacher We hope the following helps you to understand why we take the matter so seriously Perhaps to a greater extent than you may have realized, many holidays and the customs associated with them have a non-Christian religious
- The Paradox of Christmas - Grace to You
The first Christmas was a poor one: a manger, a stable Our Christmas is a dazzling display of wealth beyond belief as millions of people spend millions of dollars to ignore the true meaning of Christmas Once wise men came to worship Jesus, and today fools have parties of wickedness, ignoring all that Jesus came to accomplish
- What Does the Bible Say About Christmas? | Bible Questions
Christmas lights: According to The Encyclopedia of Religion, Europeans decorated their homes “with lights and evergreens of all kinds” to celebrate the winter solstice and to combat evil spirits Mistletoe, holly: “The Druids ascribed magical properties to the mistletoe in particular
- The Power of Christmas Truth - Grace to You
Christmas should be simple, not complex, very simple Christmas should be stripped of all of its trappings so that all that is left is the simplicity of God becoming man That is the only element in the Christmas seasonal celebration that has in it any lasting power to effect life
- Why Don’t Jehovah’s Witnesses Celebrate Certain Holidays?
Jehovah’s Witnesses consult the Bible before deciding whether to celebrate a particular holiday They strive ‘to maintain a clear conscience before God and men ’
- The Best of Christmas - Grace to You
The Best of Christmas takes you on a fascinating journey through time to explore the Christmas story from a variety of perspectives—all based on the Bible, not myth
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