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From what I remeember didn't the bible say that the shepards were attending to the sheep when Jesus was born?
That would be sometimes in the spring right?
I'm pretty sure shepards tend to their flocks year round. Perhaps you're thinking "lamb" when it says sheep.
The Capricorn in me would like to believe so but the skeptic in me says that it was sometime in the fall.Do you believe that Jesus was born on December 25th or that the church chose to celebrate Christ's birth day during the Yule celebration and Winter Solstice to appease Early Pagans who were going to burn logs and exchange gifts and bring trees into the house anyway?
I'm pretty sure shepards tend to their flocks year round. Perhaps you're thinking "lamb" when it says sheep.
Do you believe that Jesus was born on December 25th or that the church chose to celebrate Christ's birth day during the Yule celebration and Winter Solstice to appease Early Pagans who were going to burn logs and exchange gifts and bring trees into the house anyway?
How would it be tricking them? Or unethical?essentially tricking the pagans into worshipping Christianity. Just one more unethical practice to add to the list of many.
While I've never met or heard of anyone named Jessus before, I don't think I could take it to the level of certainty that you have the no such person has been born
Do you believe that Jesus was born on December 25th or that the church chose to celebrate Christ's birth day during the Yule celebration and Winter Solstice to appease Early Pagans who were going to burn logs and exchange gifts and bring trees into the house anyway?
How would it be tricking them? Or unethical?
However, it might be that rather than deliberate manipulation, the choice was the result of genuine belief.Random said:It is obvious the Winter solstice has something to do with the reason the Church Fathers made their divine godman born on Dec. 25th. The date is the same for numerous proto-saviours, not least the Roman Mithras.
Is this the only point you can make? People already understand your point. Your constant repetition of it adds nothing futher to any debate when you enter with your one horse concept.Jessus wasn't born period, the story is a myth. Many mythical gods had birthdays around the winter solstice.
And your evidence for that is ... ?I'm not sure about that Mister Emu, but celebrating near the Sun God's birthday (Dec. 21st) and installing stained glass windows were all attempts to Christianise Pagans.
Do you believe that Jesus was born on December 25th or that the church chose to celebrate Christ's birth day during the Yule celebration and Winter Solstice to appease Early Pagans who were going to burn logs and exchange gifts and bring trees into the house anyway?
Do you believe that Jesus was born on December 25th or that the church chose to celebrate Christ's birth day during the Yule celebration and Winter Solstice to appease Early Pagans who were going to burn logs and exchange gifts and bring trees into the house anyway?
No, it is deathly frigid in Bethlehem & Jerusalem (whichever place he was born) by December 25, no one in their right mind would be tending sheep (plural of lamb) or any other animal.
From what I remeember didn't the bible say that the shepards were attending to the sheep when Jesus was born?
That would be sometimes in the spring right?