I really didn't want to have to say this, but I am sick and tired of this Jesus Jesus Jesus thing. Honestly people, what does it take for you to know the truth. Just a desire is all. First of all Jesus was the man who was on the earth. When he died and God raised him from the dead, he became our savior. Our savior is Jesus CHRIST. When you proclaim "Jesus", you had better be careful because there's evil behind it. There is no where in the Bible where anyone ever prayed to Jesus or Jesus Christ. We magnify God. We are unbelievably thankful for what Christ did for us, how could we not be, but God the Father is the creator of the heavens and the earth and HE made everything possible. Christ sits at the right hand of his Father. Jesus and the cross and all of that solemn crap is not right. We don't magnify the negative, we magnify the risen lord and savior. Doesn't that make sense?
Now about this Christmas celebration, the following explanation is taken from "Jesus Christ our Promised Seed":
Biblical scholars have long recognized that Jesus was not born on December 25. As you go back in the records, there is no record of a holiday designated in observance of Jesus Christ's birth before the fourth century A.D. This observance on December 25 can, however be traced back to 336 A.D. in Rome; in Antioch, 375 A.D.; in Constantinople, to 380 A.D.; and in Alexandria to 430 A.D. The celebration of Christ's birth on December 25 was unknown in Jerusalem until the sixth century A.D.
Long before Christ, in ancient times many cultures had a festival in late December at the time of the winter solstice in celebration of the birth of their sun gods. There was Tammuz who was worshipped in Babylon, Surya in India, and Osiris in Egypt. Other gods supposed to have been born at this time are Horus, Bacchus, Adonis and Mithra just to name a few.
This midwinter festival was known as Saturnalia or the Feast of Saturn when it was adapted in Rome. It was characterized by devil worship, excessive drunkenness, orgies, and other unrestrained sexual activity. It also involved exchanging of gifts, decorating of fir trees, the yule log and other customs which we see now in the modern Christmas celebration. Saturnalia was celebrated over a period of several days, December 17 - 24.
In 274 A.D. the Romans designated December 25 as the birthday of the unconquered sun, being the time when the sun begins noticeably to show an increase in light, resulting in longer daylight hours. By 336 A.D. the church in Rome was adapting this festival spiritualizing its significance as a reference to Jesus Christ, and calling it the "Feast of the Nativity of the Sun of Righteousness". Attempting to Christianize and incorporate the ancient pagan traditions, the church in Rome adopted this midwinter holiday celebrating the birth of the sun god as one of its own observances, somewhat changing its significance, but retaining many customs of the pagan festival. As the Roman Catholic church's influence was spreading both religiously and militarily, the holiday celebrated on December 25 became the most popular date in Christendom to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. A special mass was established for Christ, hence the name "Christmass" shortened to "Christmas".
Later in the ninth century, Nicholas a fourth century bishop of Myra (southwest Turkey) was canonized, and eventually St. Nicholas Day (December 6) became a popular pre-Christmas holiday, especially in northern Europe. The name St. Nicholas was corrupted to Santa Claus and he became associated with the Christmas tradition in Protestant countries. In the Roman church, the adoration of the Magi is celebrated twelve days after December 25 on January 6 and called "Three Kings' Day" or "Epiphany". Traditionally in Roman Catholic countries the children await the "three kings," rather than Santa Claus, bearing gifts on January 6. This celebration dates to the fourth century. January 6 is when some of the Eastern orthodox churches celebrate the birth of Christ.
In 525 A.D., a Roman Catholic monk named Dionysius Exiguus, erroneously calculated the year of Jesus Christ's birth to be the 754th year after the founding of Rom. Designating that year at the start of a new ear. Dionysius renumbered subsequent years fromt hat time and labeled them as years ab incarnatione Domini, "from the incarnation of the Lord". This term was later simplified to anno Domini, "in the year of the Lord", and is now simply abbreviated "A.D." (I heard that's possibly changing). Thus, modern time reckoning came to place the birth of Christ in the year 1 A.D. Historians have long since proved Dionysius' calculations regarding the year of Christ's birth to be wrong, though we must credit him for centering on Jesus Christ as the pivotal point of all history. Dionysius; system of reckoning time has remained in use as a matter of tradition and convenience.
Jesus Christ was born on the Hebrew day corresponding to our sunset September 11, Wednesday. Therefore Jesus Christ was born on Wednesday, September 11, 3 B.C. between 6:18 and 7:39 P.M. Palestine time. There's a massive amount of historical and astronomical evidence which when put together with biblical truth will prove this beyond a shadow of a doubt. But hey who really cares about truth and accuracy when it comes to God huh. I do and maybe one of these days I'll convey this evidence. But for now, I'm pretty much done freaking y'all out.
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