why the new year of the christian era starts a few day after the date of the Jesus Christ's born?

Answer 1

Because the Gregorian calendar is ultimately based on the Julian calendar which predates Jesus. Actually, the Julian calendar was itself based on earlier twelve-month astrological calendars that were developed by the Sumerians, and that REALLY predates Jesus.

Also, the date of Jesus' birth is an apocryphal bit of Christianity. The Bible is pretty vague about it, but since it describes lambs being born at the same time it would be reasonable to assume that Jesus was actually born in late spring.

That we celebrate his birth on the day that we do was more political than anything else. The early Christian church had a heck of a time suppressing pre-Christian folk traditions/"pagan" observances around the solstices and equinoxes. Because Jesus is a figure of transformation and rebirth, the church found it easier to co-opt the existing death/rebirth rituals being performed around the winter solstice. In early colonial America, many protestant groups tried to ban the celebration of Christmas because the recognized (correctly) that it was completely unsupported by scripture. Obviously, they did not succeed.

Ask yourself--what does a decorated tree and mistletoe have to do with Jesus' birth? For that matter, what do eggs and a bunny have to do with his death? The old traditions aren't quite gone yet--it's just that most modern Christians don't realize how old those traditions are.

Answer 2

New Year's Day is the first day of the year, in the Gregorian calendar, falling exactly one week after Christmas Day of the previous year. In modern times, it is January 1. In most countries, it is a holiday. It is a holy day to many of those who still use the Julian calendar, which includes followers of some of the Eastern Orthodox churches, and is celebrated on January 14 of the Gregorian calendar due to differences between the two calendars.

This day is traditionally a religious feast, but since the 1900s, has become an occasion for celebration the night of December 31, called New Year's Eve. There are often fireworks at midnight. Depending on the country, individuals may be allowed to burn fireworks, even if it is forbidden the rest of the year.

It is also a memorable occasion to make New Year's resolutions, which they hope to fulfill in the coming Year; the most popular ones in the western world include to stop tobacco smoking or drinking, or to lose weight or get physically fit.[citation needed]

In all countries that use the Gregorian calendar, with the exception of Israel, New Year's Day is a public holiday. For many of those countries, if January 1 falls on a Saturday or Sunday, then the Friday before or the Monday after will be a public holiday.

History

Originally observed on March 1 in the old Roman Calendar, New Year's Day first came to be fixed at January 1 in 153 BC, when the two Roman consuls, after whom - in the Roman calendar - years were named and numbered, began to be chosen on that date. However in AD 525, Dionysius Exiguus set the start of the Julian calendar at March 25 [citation needed] to commemorate the Annunciation of Jesus; a variety of Christian feast dates were used throughout the Middle Ages to mark the New Year, while calendars often continued to display the months in columns running from January to December in the Roman fashion.

Among the 7th century druidic pagans of Flanders and the Netherlands, it was the custom to exchange gifts at the New Year, a pagan custom deplored by Saint Eligius (died 659 or 660), who warned the Flemings and Dutchmen, "[Do not] make vetulas, [little figures of the Old Woman], little deer or iotticos or set tables [for the house-elf, compare Puck] at night or exchange New Year gifts or supply superfluous drinks [another Yule custom]." The quote is from the vita of Eligius written by his companion Ouen.

Most countries in Western Europe officially adopted January 1 as New Year's Day somewhat before they adopted the Gregorian calendar. This is sometimes called Circumcision Style, because this was the date of the Feast of the Circumcision, being the eighth day counting from 25 December.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year's_Day

Answer 3

The Christian era, sometimes called the Era of the Incarnation, was first used by Dionysius Exiguus (literally, “Denis the Little,” a name he gave himself), a Scythian monk (some say an abbot) living in Rome in the 6th century. Abbreviation, ad, for “anno Domini,” year of the Lord, which appears before the numerals.

At that time, to determine the date of Easter the Church relied on a table prepared by Cyril of Alexander (376–444 ce), showing the date of Easter for the years we would call x–x ce. This table used the Diocletian Era, numbering years from the year that the Roman emperor Diocletian came to power (284 ce).

Pope John I asked Dionysius to extend this table. In doing so, Dionysius felt it was wrong to date the festival from the accession of a persecutor of the faithful, and so decided to number the years in his table from the time of Christ's birth.1 Dionysius submitted his table in 525 ce.

It is pretty universally acknowledged that Dionysius did not manage to select the right year for Christ's birth, which was probably in 4 or 5 bce.

Dionysius' table fixed the date of the beginning of the Christian era that we still use, but it did not immediately lead to general use of the era–in fact, the oldest surviving historical work in which dates are given using the Christian era is the Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation, written early in the 8th century by the Venerable Bede (672?–735), a learned English priest.

English missionaries carried the use of the Christian era to the Franks (in present day France), where the court adopted it for certain purposes by the end of the 9th century.2 From there it reached Italy, and was first used by the Papacy under John XIII (elected 965 ce). By the 11th century it was familiar in most of Europe, but not until the 14th century was it common in Spain. Greek-speaking Europe did not adopt it until the 15th century, and Russia not until 29 December 1699.

Its use in non-Christian countries only occurred with adoption of the Gregorian calendar. Today it is frequently styled ce (for common era), but is numerically the same.

Bede also used bc (before Christ), but that didn't come into general use until the end of the 17th century.

Answer 4

The idea is that Jesus Christ's birth is the beginning of a whole new age for humankind. Therefore, we have the division between BC (Before Christ) and AD (Anno Domini, Year of Our Lord). Since we celebrate Jesus' birth on December 25, we now start the year near the supposed date of his birth, on January 1.

(Now those who calculated the year of Jesus' birth made a mistake. We now believe he was actually born on the year we call 4 BC, or perhaps 7 BC.)

Answer 5

The new year occurs eight days after Jesus's birth, which is when he would have celebrated his bris (Jewish ceremony for circumsicion). This is when Jesus would have been named.

Answer 6

because it makes for another holiday to celebrate for us all to spend more money. You think christ was really born on Dec 25. then they've really got you brainwashed