How was the day of Christmas allocated ?

@zatak07 (699)
India
December 7, 2008 11:38am CST
Hello frens Christmas is here again for this year but this quaestion has hovering around my mind everytime i think about Christmas cos the exact date was not mention in the Bible, so if you have any idea plis share with me...happy Christmas !
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@savak03 (6684)
• United States
7 Dec 08
M'Clintock and Strong's Cyclopeodia says the day of Christs birth cannot be ascertained from the Bible, or indeed from any other source. Vol. II, p. 276 Luke 2:2-11 shows that the shepherds were in the fields at night at the time of Jesus' birth. The book 'Daily life in the time of Jesus' states: "The flocks...passed the winter under cover; and from this alone it may be seen that the traditional date for Christmas, in the winter, is unlikely to be right, since the Gospel says that the shepherds were in the fields." Henri Daniel-Rops, p. 228 The Encyclopedia Americana informs us that the reason for establishing December 25 as Christmas was to correspond to pagan festivals that took place around the time of the winter solstice, when the days began to lengthen, to celebrate the rebirth of the sun. Vol. 6 p. 666. The New Catholic Encyclopedia acknowledges: "The date of the Christ's birth is not known. The Gospels indicate neither the day or the month...According to the hypothesis suggested by H. Usener...and accepted by most scholars today, the birth of Christ was assigned the date of the winter solstice(December 25 in the Julian calendar, January 6 in the Egyptian), because on this day the pagan devotees of Mithra celebrated the birthday of the invincible sun." Vol. III, p. 656.
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@zatak07 (699)
• India
16 Dec 08
thank you so much for such an enormous information....... happy Christmas !! Savak :-)
@savak03 (6684)
• United States
16 Dec 08
Thank you for the BR. I hope the info was understandable.
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