–– Paul Schlehlein

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Christmas did not exist in Africa before Christianity reached its shores. Christianity did not exist in Africa before the missionaries brought it. Therefore, Africans have missionaries to thank for the Christmas holidays. 

Christmas is the holiday in which Christians celebrate the birth of the Lord Jesus. Specifically, Christmas commemorates the incarnation, when God assumed human nature in the person of Christ. Unlike theophonies in the Old Testament, where Jesus appeared in human form temporarily, the incarnation was fixed and permanent, so that even today Jesus dwells in a glorified human body and maintains a human nature.