Xmas or Christmas? What are the differences? Are they the same? Check Out For More Details.
Christmas is one of the festive seasons which is celebrated by most people across the world. Depending on Religious affiliations and faith, not all individuals celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.
We have realized that most people do use Christmas and X – mas interchangeably. Have you ever thought about the difference between Christmas and X-mas?. This is another festive season and We bring you much details about Christmas and x-mas.
We all know that Christmas is celebration done to remember the Virgin Birth of Jesus Christ of Nazareth and how he came to save the world from sin. But in modern times, the word x-mas is trying to overshadow the Christmas that we all know over a period of years. This therefore calls for the need to elaborate on the clear differences between Christmas and X-Mas.
The difference between the word CHRISTMAS and the word X-MASS.
CHRISTMAS is the combination of
two (2) words:
Christ and Mass.
Before Christ was born, many years ago,
25th Dec was used to be PAGAN’S day for SACRIFICES.
Later in the year
533 AD Constantine,
the head of the then
Roman Church which is today the Roman Catholic,
changed the day from
pagan’s day of
sacrifices to
Jesus Christ’s birth commemoration.
He called the day
THE MASS FOR CHRIST
Which is CHRISTMAS.
1. CHRIST in Hebrew means, The Anointed One or The Chosen One.
2. MAS in Greek means A Big Gathering
of People Thus CHRISTMAS means
The Gathering of People of Christ, (His Followers/Disciples) where did the word X-MASS come from? Be ware!!
It’s believed that after the day of gathering of Christ’s Followers {CHRISTMAS}, became famous and respected worldwide.
Atheists & Antichrists decided to change it by
removing the name Christ for an X to mean that there is no Christ. It changed the meanings by reading X-MASS i.e to mean “there is no gathering of Christ’s Followers.”
Merry CHRIST-MAS and NOT X-MAS
X is often used to designate a person thing/factor, whose true name is unknown/withheld.
Example. When you are asked to find X in arithmetic in school, it means that a certain number is missing which needs to be found, but Christ here is not missing to be replaced by X.
“X” has nothing
to do with “Christ” “The Anointed One,” Let’s not replace Christ with “X”
Therefore as a Christian, don’t use X-MAS but use “CHRISTMAS”.
You might have made that mistake last year by wishing people X-Mas instead of CHRISTMAS.
correcting this big error.
“MERRY CHRISTMAS”
AND NOT MERRY X-MAS
However, another school of thought emerged and shows that the word Xmas is simply a short abbreviation for the word Christmas.
The abbreviation Xmas for Christmas dates from the mid 16th century. The X is the Greek letter chi, the initial letter in the word Χριστός ( Chrīstos ) “Christ.” In spite of a long and respectable history, today Xmas is offensive to many, perhaps because of its associations with advertising.