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Subject: Christmas: How it began...
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beige1 23.11.11 - 07:49am
this is not what i think, just what i have found, it interests me, pls all feel free to add what u kno or found... there are many posts abt it, i kno... but it is bits nd pieces scattered all over forum... * +
beige1 23.11.11 - 07:51am
When was Jesus born? A. Popular myth puts his birth on December 25th in the year 1 C.E. B. The New Testament gives no date or year for Jesus birth. The earliest gospel St. Marks, written about 65 CE begins with the baptism of an adult Jesus. This suggests that the earliest Christians lacked interest in or knowledge of Jesus birthdate. * +
beige1 23.11.11 - 07:52am
C. The year of Jesus birth was determined by Dionysius Exiguus, a Scythian monk, abbot of a Roman monastery. His calculation went as follows: a. In the Roman, pre-Christian era, years were counted from ab urbe condita (the founding of the City (Rome)). Thus 1 AUC signifies the year Rome was founded, 5 AUC signifies the 5th year of Romes reign, etc. * +
beige1 23.11.11 - 07:53am
c. Luke 3:1,23 indicates that when Jesus turned 30 years old, it was the 15th year of Tiberius reign. d. If Jesus was 30 years old in Tiberius reign, then he lived 15 years under Augustus (placing Jesus birth in Augustus 28th year of reign). * +
beige1 23.11.11 - 07:54am
e. Augustus took power in 727 AUC. Therefore, Dionysius put Jesus birth in 754 AUC. f. However, Luke 1:5 places Jesus birth in the days of Herod, and Herod died in 750 AUC four years before the year in which Dionysius places Jesus birth. * +
beige1 23.11.11 - 07:56am
A. Roman pagans first introduced the holiday of Saturnalia, a week long period of lawlessness celebrated between December 17-25. During this period, Roman courts were closed, and Roman law dictated that no one could be punished for damaging property or injuring people during the weeklong celebration. The festival began when Roman authorities chose an enemy of the Roman people to represent * +
beige1 23.11.11 - 07:57am
the Lord of Misrule. Each Roman community selected a victim whom they forced to indulge in food and other physical pleasures throughout the week. At the festivals conclusion, December 25th, Roman authorities believed they were destroying the forces of darkness by brutally murdering this innocent man or woman * +
beige1 23.11.11 - 07:58am
In the 4th century CE, Christianity imported the Saturnalia festival hoping to take the pagan masses in with it. Christian leaders succeeded in converting to Christianity large numbers of pagans by promising them that they could continue to celebrate the Saturnalia as Christians. * +
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