This sounds more like a theological tangle than anything else. When people celebrate Christmas, they're not celebrating God's birthday, they're celebrating the birthday of God's son...the MAN Christ Jesus, who was born of Mary. Jesus is God in the flesh...but the flesh He came in is a man who was born at a particular place, at a particular time. To not understand the true (and complete) humanity of Jesus is nearly as big an error as not understanding the deity of Jesus.
Let me put it to you like this: God is a spirit...was Jesus only spirit? Was he not flesh as well?
No man has seen God at any time...so was Jesus invisible?
The point is not that Jesus is not God...the point is that Jesus was more than JUST God...he was a man as well.
Wasn't sure how to answer the poll, but here are my thoughts:
I don't think of Christmas as being God's "birthday". When I think of birthdays, I think of the celebration we have where on the anniversary of the day of one's birth, we celebrate that person getting another year older.
This analogy doesn't work with God, in my opinion. First we don't know the actual day that he was born, secondly he doesn't "age" every year, and we don't give him presents or bake him a cake.
So I do not think of Christmas as celebrating jesus' birthday. To me, Christmas is a time when to give special remembrance to the fact that God became flesh and dwelt among us.
Excellent explanation. Especially the last paragraph.
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Thats what I say....
Jesus is God manifest in flesh ...but Jesus Himself...the humanity has a birthday...his deity has not Bday...
This is a dumb thread.....obviously some here dont understand the Mighty God in Christ.
Some also don't understand that while Jesus and God are one and the same, when He was here on earth, there was a separation of sorts, and even Jesus noted those differences in the scriptures, because He understood that humanity cannot have the same virtues that diety does. This in no way separates Jesus from God, but Jesus Himself stated that there were things the Father knew that the Son did not. He wasn't denying His being God in saying so, but the understanding is clear to me as to what He meant.
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