2006-12-14 06:42:44 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Don't know what translation of Gospel you read, but I never read and never heard of any date recorded in all my reading of ancient history and religious lit. Besides all that, speaking from a Hebrew prespective, the people in that local would be using a different calendar based on the moon's 13-months. December is a Roman thing and that month used to be the 10th month before the calendar became Anglicized.
2006-12-14 06:48:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
So true. Odd isn't it? I've never understood this action either. And now its even more clear that people understand that December 25th isn't rightfully Jesus' date of birth but a date designated by man to celebrate.
Wouldn't it then be simpler to just celebrate the life of Jesus instead of saying this is the day our Lord was born?
2006-12-14 07:02:35 · answer #2 · answered by The First Lady 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually the Bible doesn't say the exact month or day Jesus was born. All we really know is that lambs were being born at the time of His birth.
2006-12-14 06:51:23 · answer #3 · answered by Tatochka 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Bible doesn't say when Jesus was born. The Pope picked Dec. 25th because he wanted people to stop celebrating pagan worship of the birth of the sun and come to church instead. That's why he started "Christ's Mass" and the twelve days of Christmas.
2006-12-14 06:48:55 · answer #4 · answered by scriptorcarmina 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Okay, I'm confused enough about things the bible says. Let's just all stick with Dec 25th since that's what we're all used to. Hey, didn't you ever have to celebrate your birthday on a different day? Like, when you have to work or everyone can't make it on that day? So, go ahead and celebrate in October, and then celebrate with the rest of us in December!
2006-12-14 06:57:35 · answer #5 · answered by ☆skyblue 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't think it spells out october, but I have talked to ppl who have studied it and shepards in that part of the world were NOT out tending their sheep in december. It was too cold. I think that they brought them out around the october time frame. I'm not really sure. It makes you think though.
What had happened was...somethin like this...the pagans celebrated their sun gods birth on dec 25th. When christianity became the official religion they just switched it from being the sun gods birth day and just said it was jesus' birthday instead.
2006-12-14 06:49:17 · answer #6 · answered by So'sYerFace 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was not born on the 25th of December,that is the date Christians set aside to celebrate his birth.
2006-12-14 06:48:50 · answer #7 · answered by sweetthing 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No one knows the exact date of Jesus's birth but because he is such an important figure, a day was chosen to celebrate his birth. I think that by now most people knows that he wasn't born on Dec.25 & he didnt die on Easter. These dates were just chosen in lieu of the unknown ones .
2006-12-14 07:00:39 · answer #8 · answered by Ethslan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where does the Bible say this?? It doesn't say anything about Jesus being born in October, nor Dec. 25. That was a pagan holiday...
You're dumb.
2006-12-14 06:57:44 · answer #9 · answered by incognitas8 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He wasn't born on December 25 thats just the day we celebrate it, like Abe Lincolns' birthday we celebrate it a different day then it really was.
2006-12-14 06:53:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋