Christmas days origins actually lie in sun worshipping.
2006-11-13 23:02:13 · 26 answers · asked by Jamie 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Your maths may be a bit out - but otherwise, yes it's true.
He was 33 1/2 when KILLED on Nisan 14th (end March / start April) so was born end October or very start of November.
Christmas as we know it is from the Roman festival of Saturnalia (return of the sun god) celebrated on Dec 25th. It was amagamated into the 'christain' calendar by Emperor Constantine to 'unite' his peoples - bringing pagan & early roman catholocism together.
The true christians of the first century did NOT celebrate Christs birth - only a memorial of his death.
Today - it holds no significance in any religious field - simply a time to get drunk, eat too much & fall out with the relatives...but those who object to the roots of the celebration hold firm their convictions.
2006-11-14 00:00:42 · answer #1 · answered by creviazuk 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There is actually no proof that Jesus was born in March either! Christmas isn't a celebration of the day but rather of the event. It is just a day that is set aside for remembering that Jesus came to earth. My little brother is adopted from Romania and we have no idea when his birthday really is but that doesn't mean that we don't celebrate it.
As for the misleading, how many people nowadays DON'T know that Christmas was originally a pagan festival? Anyway, that is beside the point because, had the Church not wanted to celebrate the birth of Christ, that festival would have been thrown out with all the others that used to be celebrated.
2006-11-14 00:25:43 · answer #2 · answered by Kari 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
That'a a good question dear.
You are absolutely right, Jesus was not born in December. The first catholic priest declared that Jesus was borned on the 25th of December because they wanted to convert new people as christian and so they Put it the same day as the god of sun.
If you really want to know the true way of God you better see what the Bible reveals actually and it will help it will help you to find which religion is good, THERE'S ONLY ONE WHO IS TRUE.
2006-11-13 23:31:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
As you hinted, Christian holidays have their roots in ancient Pagan celebrations. During the Christianization of the Roman Empire, the old holidays celebrated then were replaced with Christian equivalents on or around the same days in order to make Christianity more palatable and make the conversion process less of a hassle. Even the Sabbath day, which is in fact supposed to be on Saturday, was moved to Sunday ("Sun Day" in ancient Rome) to replace the weekly worship of Apollo, god of the Sun.
My favorite example of this, though, is what is now celebrated as Easter. In ancient times, this was the festival of Beltane, which was a springtime planting and fertility festival. In addition to blessing the fields for a bountiful crop in the autumn, ancient people also engaged in a fertility ceremony. In this ceremony, the eligible young men would line the main street of the town, and all the eligible women would parade down the middle wearing phallic icons and other fertility symbols. When the woman that caught a man's fancy passed by, he would let her know he was interested by giving her a couple of swats on the behind with a special ceremonial fertility switch. The festival ended up in the center of town, where everyone would get roaring drunk on aphrodisiac ceremonial wine, and then pair up and...well, you get the idea. Sounds like a great holiday to me!
Anyway, there are still influences from Beltane on Easter as we know it today. Did you know where the Easter bunny and Easter eggs came from? They're fertility symbols! It's not a wild stretch of imagination, either. Just think about that next time you see the Easter bunny at the mall--he's there to remind you and your lover to "f*** like rabbits" this Beltane!
2006-11-13 23:15:01 · answer #4 · answered by Dave B. 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Strange as it seams, in this day and time, that a person may not know his or her actual birthday. My parents died when I was 14. I asked my uncle when my birthday was. He said it was Oct. 11th
When I went for a S/S card I Just gave them a date - June 2nd.
In my dad's Bible it was Aug. 18 th. I'm 68 years old now and finally got a birth certificate and found out I was born Sept. 18 th.
So if I had this much trouble with my own birthday. Why couldn't the same thing happen 2,000 years ago?
2006-11-13 23:16:21 · answer #5 · answered by Cal 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Does it really matter? And how can you prove it was March? Whatever day you choose there'll be a 1/365 chance it was the day he was really born on. Factual information about this time is so scanty i seriously doubt there is any evidence for the time of his birth (especially as he was from humble origins: the exact day wouldn't have been recorded anyway. Besides, the gospel writers wouldn't have found it important enough to record - only two of them even referred in any detail to his birth at all).
2006-11-13 23:39:24 · answer #6 · answered by Nikita21 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Consider that when Christianity became an organised religion the Church needed to compete in the minds and hearts of the people with other established religions.
It is a fact that pagan or other holidays were taken over and claimed as Christian in an effort to make the transition easier and more effective.
As the old religions were forgotten so were the original purposes of the days of worship.
2006-11-13 23:06:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
Most people already know Christmas is pagan, but they will celebrate it anyway. True Christians have nothing to do with Christmas. They believe Jesus' words at John 4:24: "God is a spirit, and those worshiping him must worship with "spirit and TRUTH."
2006-11-13 23:53:00 · answer #8 · answered by LineDancer 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I was the Romans way of mixing the religion of christianity with pagans...kinda like meeting in the middle without the bloodshed ..pagans celebrated Christmas day as the Winter Solstice and a day of giving. So its possible that the Romans portrayed Christmas as the day GOD gave his son to the world for the Christians
2006-11-13 23:10:27 · answer #9 · answered by madeawareofyou 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Not March, October.
At least that is what most scholars of the Bible believe.
Anyway, I don't' think it matters all that much when we celebrate Jesus' birth since God Himself never instructed us to celebrate it in the first place.
2006-11-13 23:25:45 · answer #10 · answered by tabs 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋