What is the deeper meaning of Christmas?

1. Bible
   The history of Christmas occurs within a larger history, the Bible, which is a story, pretty much everything. It's literally the story of the cosmos and the God who created it. The main account of the Bible is for God, who creates a universe in behalf of his creatures so that they can experience the light of the community, the future disaster that harms this creature, and then God's decision to save and forgive His creation. How does God do it? Through the covenant. In the ancient world, the covenant was the strongest form of alliance. The contracts are regulations for the exchange of goods and services, but the covenants are agreements on the exchange of people and their conduct a covenant creates a family bond. And the most important covenant in the Bible, when Jesus is born, is the covenant of the Lord with Abraham, through which the Lord created a people, and taught him His regulations, and through them forgave the rest of the creation. This is the story of Israel. And most of the Bible has the same theme: Israel doesn't always obey Yahweh, which brings him into all troubles; but Yahweh never forsakes his lot. Christmas history has to do with the fact that God fulfills his side of the deal by sending the Messiah through whom the covenant is fulfilled. Christmas cannot be understood without understanding this rich background of the history of the Universe and Israel.
2. Political
   Christmas is the birth of a king. The Gospel of Luke, where we learned most of the Christmas confession, is clear to this author highlights the connections between the infant Jesus and the rulers of time. History begins with Caesar Augustus and his record of “of the entire inhabited earth”. Yet, an angel appears to shepherds to share with them the news of Jesus ' birth “in the city of David”, Israel's historic King, “Mesia, Lord”. And with that, all of a sudden “heads, an angel came up with a crowd of heavenly armies”. The political meaning of Christmas is that every ruler and all authority answers to God the little baby wrapped in diapers in a cradle, the God of humility and mercy, who is the God of the oppressed.
3. Social
   The new king was not born in a palace, neither was his birth glorified, nor was he declared in every corner of the empire. His family were refugees: They couldn't find a room in an inn; Mary bore Jesus in a stable; and the child had to rest in a manger. The message of Christmas is undoubtedly a message to the poor, young ones, those who are pushed to the ends of society. These are the people God chooses, the people he sees first.
4. Metaphysics

For Christians, Jesus is not just an important figure and a spiritual leader or teacher. He's God's son. He's God-made man. With the Cross, Christmas brings home, to us, the mystery of this relationship. As G. K. Chesterton: “The hands that made the sun and the stars were too small to reach the large heads of the”

Reincarnation, as this doctrine is known, changed the meaning of God and the universe. God is a God of love, a love he expressed in making his Son, one of us, and sharing our experience. God saves us, not just through a legal transaction where our sins are forgiven, but by uniting his nature with ours. As a sacred phrase of Christian tradition put it: “The Son of God became a human, in order for us to become Lord” The universe's version is that God is “everything in anything”. The cosmic meaning of Christmas reveals us in the nature of the universe.

5. Personal
   If we really allow this story to reach us, it will surely change us to a deep, personal level. The key that the angel gives the shepherds is that they will find a baby in a manger a reference to Eucharist, where God gives us food. This is the depth of God's love and humility: He wants to join us in the deepest sense, to become one.

When we allow all these meanings to become one within us... the Biblical, political, social, metaphysics... then we realize that life is all about love, a love <x0... who carries everything, believes everything, hopes for everything, endures everything”, a love that gives all.... The Week éThe world..