Why do we follow the "christian calendar" which is not based on Scriptural calendars but pagan ones?

Question

The Gregorian calendar (named after Pope Gregory) is based on the Roman Julian calendar which came from the Chaldeans of Egypt who brought it from Babylon.

It was based on the worship of the SUN, hence SUNday.

The ancient Hebrew calendar out of Egypt used the Sun and the Moon in position to the 12 constellations. The Sun would enter a constellation and when the moon's new light was FIRST SIGHTED (the actual New Moon), the month (from the word moon) or "New Moon" would begin.

The New Year out of Egypt was in the month of Abib which began in the constellation of ARIES the LAMB. Joseph foresaw this way of keeping sacred time in his dream where his father (representing the sun) and his mother (representing the moon) and his 11 siblings all bowed down to him who represented the lamb at that time (which also foretold of all scripture referring to THE Lamb...Messiah).

DANIEL 7:25
"...'he' shall attempt to change sacred seasons and the law...."

Answer 1

Until the time of Christ, most nations used lunar years for counting time, employing various ways of adjusting the year to coincide more or less with the solar year. The common lunar year of 12 lunar months has 354 days, with the months having 29 or 30 days, depending on the appearance of each new moon. The lunar year is therefore about 11 1/4 days short of the true solar year of 365 1/4 days. The Hebrews followed the lunar year. Just how they adjusted this year to coincide with the solar year and the seasons is not explained in the Bible, but they must have added additional, or intercalary, months when needed. The arrangement of intercalary months was later systematized in the fifth century B.C.E. into what is now known as the Metonic cycle. This allowed for the intercalary month to be added seven times every 19 years, and in the Jewish calendar, it was added after the 12th month, Adar, and was called Veadar, or “second Adar.” As the lunar calendar is thus adjusted to the sun, the years, which are of 12 or 13 months, are known as lunisolar years.

The Julian calendar was introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 B.C.E., to give the Roman people a solar-year time arrangement in place of the lunar year. The Julian calendar consists of 365 days in a year, with the exception that on each fourth year (leap year), one day is added, to make it 366 days. However, in the course of time, it was found that the Julian calendar year is actually a little more than 11 minutes longer than the true solar year. By the 16th century C.E., a discrepancy of ten full days had accumulated. Thus, in 1582, Pope Gregory XIII introduced a slight revision, instituting what is now known as the Gregorian calendar. By papal bull ten days were omitted from the year 1582, so that the day after October 4 became October 15. The Gregorian calendar provides that centuries not divisible by 400 are not to be considered leap years. For example, unlike the year 2000, the year 1900 was not made a leap year because the number 1,900 is not divisible by 400. The Gregorian calendar is now the one in general use in most parts of the world.

Answer 2

We?

Inuit people follow the same calendar too. So do Asians and Russians and Germans and Muslims.

What's your point? It is a standard like the time zones, or that one minute has 60 seconds.

We just named the days after pagan gods, probably because if named after the cristian god or allah, there would only be enough names for one day, and one day does not make a week.

Monday - Man's (odin) Day
Tuesday - Tiw's Day (norse)
Wednesday - Woden's Day (norse)
Thursday - Thor's Day (norse)
Friday - Freida's (woman) Day (norse)
Saturday - Saturn's Day (roman god, borowed from greek gods)
Sunday - Day of the sun, many religions

Answer 3

And the days of the week are named for Norse gods and the months are named after Roman gods.

Amazing how we incorporate a lot of different things into our culture.

Answer 4

I suspect this is the way you are going to see it no matter what anyone says, in which case you definitely should not follow the normal Christian calendar.

If God is a Huge Person who wants to send people to Hell for getting their dates mixed up, then God is self-evidently evil. I don't believe in that conception of God.

Answer 5

Phoenix and emily: you are exactly right. Christianity is as diluted as a Scotch-on-the-rocks that sits out too long.
They have melded many different forms of paganism into their "religion" and still say that we non-christians are worshiping jesus when we used to say AD/BC.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

It is as arbitrary as any system of measurement and reference.

For example, "Time" is still a function of earth's orbital parameters about the sun.

Answer 8

Because Christianity as a whole is Plagiarized Paganism so why not out calender as well.

Answer 9

Christianity was created by pagans to control other pagans. That's why they follow a pagan calendar. And that's why the majority of the stories in the bible are rehashed pagan myths.

Answer 10

That is unclear there are in fact more potential answers to the question..