why do we use jesus' birth as a frame of reference? shouldn't we use adam's birth/creation day as the first day if he did indeed exist, or better yet, why not just start with the first day of creation?
2007-05-18 05:25:00 · 8 answers · asked by just curious (A.A.A.A.) 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
too far back
2007-05-18 05:27:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
First of all, there is no "judeo-christian" calandar. Here in America--and most of the Christainized Western world--we use a modernized Julian or Roman calendar. Many of the dates you mentioned are unknown--nobody knows what Jesus's birthday is. What we celebrate as Christmas is a christianized version of pagan celebrations of the winter solstice. (which fell on December 25 until moderizations in the calendar moved the date of the solstice to December 21-22). Many of these celebrations weren't even Christianized as of the time the calendar was put into place.
2007-05-18 13:04:19 · answer #2 · answered by Celtic 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We use the founding of the Roman empire as the frame of reference. The bit about jesus' birth is just a smoke screen. Everyone knows that jesus was not born in 1 bc or 1 ad.
2007-05-18 13:48:17 · answer #3 · answered by Fred 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why would you celebrate Adam? Yes, he was created but he also dropped the ball. It was Jesus that saved us from our sins.
Cesar (don't remember which one) decided to make December 25th the birthday everyone could celebrate for the birth of Jesus Christ. No one really knows the day of Jesus' birth...only that He came to save the world.
No humans were around on the 1st day of creation.
John 3:16-18
16 "God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son so that whoever believes in him may not be lost, but have eternal life. 17 God did not send his Son into the world to judge the world guilty, but to save the world through him.
NCV
2007-05-18 12:30:32 · answer #4 · answered by Salvation is a gift, Eph 2:8-9 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No such thing.If you mean the Gregorian calendar..it is because Jesus Christ split history in two.And it is also symbolic of the old covenant time,and the new covenant time.As for an Adamic calendar....no point.The garden was meant to be eternal.Not a very deep thinker...are you?
2007-05-18 13:45:24 · answer #5 · answered by kitz 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ostensibly -- Jews do.
It's the Christians who abandoned a Creation based calendar and went with the Julian and Gregorian calendars ... both based in... *gasp* pagan backgrounds.
Does that surprise anyone? Seriously, I mean, does it? Practically everything else Christian was swiped from pagan sources...
2007-05-18 12:30:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Judaic calendar does not start with your mangod. Our year is 5767. This is why I hate the term "Judeo-christian". Usually when it is used it really refers to "christian".
2007-05-18 12:33:25 · answer #7 · answered by XX 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no such thing as a Judeo-Christian calendar. Jews have their own calendar.
2007-05-18 12:40:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋