so jesus wasnt even born on or around the holiest time of the year....what else mightve been changed?

Question

over the years?

Answer 1

not sure but christians celebrate the birth of their savior is the point its been so many years since jesus was here we have no way of knowing his actual birthday but we celebrate his being born of a virgin to save the world from their sins and thats the "reason for the season"

Answer 2

A whole lot of other holidays, for example. As Christianity spread across Europe, the pagan Europeans grafted Christian tenements onto their nature-cycle holidays. So the birth of Christ was moved to be celebrated when they had originally celebrated the "birth" of the sun around winter solstice. That's why Christmas has so many traditional references to greenery and lights from the tradition of Yule.
Easter is a similar story, shifted close to the vernal equinox when pagans celebrated fertility rites. Eggs and bunnies have a lot more to do with fertility than Jesus.
I have even read the works of theologians who believe the mistranslations of the Bible through so many languages over so many centuries are responsible for the "virgin-birth" story. There are scholars who believe Joseph was in fact Jesus's biological father and that Mary was simply a "maiden" or young woman, not a virgin.
It all has very interesting implications when you consider the fallibility of humans trying to pass down the "absolute truth" like a game of telephone.

Answer 3

With the problems of calenders, record keeping, etc... it is difficult to know exactly when Jesus was born. So instead of declaring "this is the exact day he was born," they choose a day to celebrate. There isn't anything wrong with that choice. Should we not celebrate God's taking on flesh and becoming one of us simply because we, as humans, don't know the exact date he was born?

Heck, some other dates are done differently. Easter has a weird rule: The rule has since the Middle Ages been phrased as Easter is observed on the Sunday after the first full moon on or after the day of the vernal equinox. Is this better then a set date? It is more important to focus on what the event means then whether the date is exactly right, IMO.

Answer 4

nothing else has changed, all the towns are still there, and the life styles of the people.
and you have to bow to see his birthplace, everyone has to bow to see it, that is the way they have made the entrance for believers and non believers, so that every knee will bow, before the King of Kings.
Bethlehem is still there, Nazareth, the Sea of Galilee etc.
Its all on the map
Why do you think the gaza strip is so much in the news, the palastianians and the jew are fighting over whos lands rights it is..the real land owner is written in the bible..check it out.
and they say the bible is not relevant..its very much alive in the news
Shepards are still out there herding sheep.
And the coves and caverns where they keep the sheep save are still there for bad weather and the wolves
.......and my head was anoited with oil.....that is from the psalms..the shepard ointed the nose of the sheep, so when the sheep, sticks his head where it dont belong, the snake bite wont hurt as much..sounds like us humans, sticking our heads in the wrong hole, and satan, the wolf taking a bite of our nose..thats why we are called sheep, we have many characteristics of the sheep.
Many of the charactheristics of the bible apply to us.
The mustard seed of the bible is real, and the smallest seed of the bible land..Jesus says, have the faith of the mustard seed...so nothing has changed.
Even the sheep herder used a sheep horn, to call his sheep, not a cell phone, imagine that!

Answer 5

The significance was in Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection, not his date of birth. Jesus' birthday is something the world placed importance upon. The Church is not concerned with his birthday. It was thru his resurrection from the dead that he overcame death for all of us. Before that, none of us had any hope of eternal life.

Christmas was something the Catholic religion embraced so they could draw in the heathens whom they were attempting to proselytize. Christmas is a fun holiday, but has nothing really to do with the birth of Jesus. It's a tradition, not a Church function.

Answer 6

Dec 25 grow to be a trip contained in the old Roman empire, i think of it grow to be the delivery day of a few god referred to as Mithras or something. besides whilst Christianity unfold to the Roman empire they only took the prevailing date. Christians do no longer likely care regarding the origins because of the fact human beings frequently do no longer supply a ****. in addition they use those Christmas wood that are completely beside the point to the delivery of Jesus or the worship of their God.

Answer 7

Jesus Christ is born in people hearts every day and why should we not celebrate a time in a year His birth coming to this world to give us Salvation and eternal life

Answer 8

The biggest thing that has changed from the original texts is the bible writers took God's name out of the bible.
7000 times it is supposed to say Jehovah but instead it says GOD or LORD which they confuse with god and lord referring to Jesus. Jesus is a mighty god but not The Almighty God.
It's no wonder that they think Jehovah God the Almighty put on flesh and came to earth to die for us...NO WAY!
God is on his heavenly throne ruling and is too powerful for us to even see him or hear his voice. He uses angels to communicate with us.

Answer 9

They knew he wasn't born on December 25th, they just picked that date so that they could draw attention away from the original pagan holidays that used that time of the year. It seems spiteful, but it's just really well played politics.

Answer 10

Every year the poop can make significant changes. For example, purgatory just recently ceased to exist.