from what i remembr from the bible..there was no celebrations of
birthday indicated besides the 2 immoral kings??where God
interfered and bad things happened??as for JC..the only thing he
asked his guys to commemorate is the dinner he took with his
guys??didnt mention that we should celebrate his birth right??the
origin of xmas was with the roman sun god anyway..and the value of
JC's life was in his death..not his birth..
As I've pointed out in another of your thread, yes, Jesus asked
us to commemorate the last supper but no where does the bible say
that the last supper should be the only thing that we
should commemorate him by. Jesus did not specifically ask us
to celebrate his birth in the bible but he certainly did
not forbid it.
Jesus Christ did indeed bring salvation into the world through
his death (and resurrection I might add) but before he could
do all of that, he was first born into the world and that
is what Christians celebrate in Christmas - the coming of the
Saviour as foretold by the prophets.
And whether or not other pagan festivals were previously
celebrated on the 25 December is irrelevant. Today, nobody as far
as I know associate Christmas celebrations or the 25 Dec with the
Roman sun god or whatever other pagan deities there are. We
remember the birth of our Saviour on this day and it it truly
something worth celebrating about.