That statement is incorrect in two different ways. In one sense, the "X" does not remove Christ at all. We found this information Friday at a website about using proper English:
In Greek, the letter chi (pronounced ky, to rhyme with tie) is written as an X. Chi is the first letter of the Greek word for "Christ." Greeks sometimes abbreviated "Christ" as X. They abbreviated "Christ savior" as XP. P is the symbol for the Greek letter rho (pronounced row, to rhyme with toe), which is the first letter of the word "savior" in Greek. The Oxford English Dictionary shows the first known English use of Xmas in 1551.
(Side point: this could give a whole new meaning to Windows XP, couldn't it?)
Yet in another sense -- the sense we meant in our reply -- changing the start of a word does NOT change a day's meaning. That's because the Bible doesn't show any time when Jesus or the early disciples kept Christmas. The story of Jesus's birth is there (Luke 2:1-20), but the holiday is not!
Some Christian groups maintain a "Christmas" season holiday was around long before Jesus was born. And we noted there's more evidence Jesus kept Hanukkah; we addressed this in a post last July.
Then a player wrote about Jesus: "The world has lost an important man...." With all due respect, is Jesus lost -- or might you be?
For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost. -- Matthew 18:11, KJV
Jesus ultimately will do that when He returns to Earth....
These [trials] have come so that your faith -- of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire -- may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. -- I Peter 1:7
When that happens, all nations truly will see "the salvation of our God" (Psalm 98:3).
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