The Christians who celebrate Christmas on Jan. 7th. instead of Dec. 25th. Back home we used to call them 7UP Christians!
Do you know much about them, and why they observe Christmas on Jan. 7th.
2006-08-15 16:23:54 · 14 answers · asked by Nebula 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
This is done by the various Eastern Orthodox Churches. They celebrate in on January 7th because of the calendar change when it went from Julian to Gregorian. At that time, the eastern churches didn't want to use the Gregorian calendar. That calendar was named for Pope Gregory XIII, who abolished the old calendar in 1582 and shortened it by 13 days.
This is why the date is later for the Orthodox.
2006-08-15 16:33:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
because there's really no real information about when jesus was actually born. the reason most celebrate it on dec 25 is because it conicides with the pagan holiday yule. christians from back then wanted people to celebrate their holidays instead of the wiccan ones, so they made everything seem like it was their idea. also, most of the other "christian" holidays and celebrations coincide with pagan ones.
people that celebrate christmas on january 7th have just as good a guess as the rest of us as to when jesus was actually born.
2006-08-15 23:42:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's common to several denominations of Christianity. To my knowledge, the Greek Orthodox Church celebrates Christmas on the 1st of January.
25th December was Mithra's Birthday and had nothing to do with Christ who was born around the 25th of September 6 B.C. (6 B.C.E.)
2006-08-15 23:34:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Russian orthodox church does, because they have a different religious calendar.
Also, I just remembered that Jean Ritchie mentions it in her "Kentucky Christmas" album (Her music is quite good, btw), and so there must be some apalachian peoples who carried the tradition over to america with them.
Ragdg2 has already explained the history, so no need to go there.
2006-08-15 23:33:20 · answer #4 · answered by Othar 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They use the Julian calendar (as opposed to the more common Gregorian calendar)
Sometime (like 700yrs ago) the powers that be realised that the calendar had gotten messed up (something like the leap year thing... i don't know for certain). So, the gregorians made a tweak, the julians didn't and the rest is history.
2006-08-15 23:31:33 · answer #5 · answered by jack b 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Though Jesus was "born" on Dec. 25 (not really), the wise men didn't get to him for several days. My aunt always said that is when Jesus got his presents, so her kids could wait to get theirs. It was not until the wise men arrived that Jesus was truly known to the world. (Something like that.)
2006-08-15 23:31:28 · answer #6 · answered by Phoenix, Wise Guru 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL, never heard of it.
I always thought 7UP was a soda pop.
2006-08-15 23:28:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yES, i KNOW A LADY. I used to work with her but she was from egypt. SO maybe it's a cultural thing? I do remember her saying she believed that Christ was the Messiah! Although, you would never know by her behavior :)
2006-08-15 23:29:24 · answer #8 · answered by comingofage03 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do they drink 7up too or did Jesus magically change water into 7up ?
2006-08-15 23:30:03 · answer #9 · answered by Tammy ™ 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I Thought is was Jan. 6th, Epiphany.
2006-08-15 23:28:15 · answer #10 · answered by J9 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋