Debates Bíblicos: Usar ‘Xmas’ é desrespeitoso para com os cristãos?

What does Xmas actually mean? “Xmas” is simply an abbreviation of the word “Christmas.” The “X” in Xmas is not actually an English letter X rather represents the Greek letter Chi, which is the first letter of the Greek word for Christ – “Christos.” Thus, Xmas quite literally means “Christ-mas.” This use of the Greek letter Chi to represent Christ has a long and sacred history in our Christian tradition. Early Christians used the Chi-Rho symbol, formed by overlapping the…