Jesus Christ Was NOT Born On Christmas
发布时间 2017-06-15 18:01:43 来源
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Did you know that Jesus Christ was NOT actually born on Christmas?
Jesus Christ -- or Yeshua to Ancient Jews -- was born on some day. But if you thought it was Christmas … well, that’s weird, here’s something you should know. Popular culture says that Prominent Jewish preacher Jesus Christ was born on December 25th, which is almost certainly not true according to many historians. The first recorded celebration of Jesus’ birth a.k.a. Christmas was on December 25 in 336 A.D. over 300 years after Jesus’ death. Truth be told, very little is known about the timeline of Jesus’ birth. It’s estimated only a tiny percentage of the population who might have been familiar with Jesus knew how to read or write, thus making something like his birth difficult to track.
Even the gospels (which means good news in greek) written by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John offered very few references to the date of Jesus birth. So given all of this, where did December 25th come from?
The Roman Emperor Aurelian, who ruled roughly 100 years before the first “Christmas”, marked December 25th as the beginning of the winter solstice or the “invincible sun” -- when the sun was at its weakest point.
In addition to this, from the first to the fourth century, Mithrasism was one of the prominent pagan religions rivaling Christianity. What was the recognized birthday of Mithras, the leader of the religion? December 25th.
It’s relatively well known that Christianity did not become the dominant religion in Europe until the early to mid 4th century, when Emperor Constantine famously deemed it so. Many believe that in order to garner popularity for the religion and to cement it as a mainstay, Constantine wanted to celebrate Christ’s birthday with a date that many people were already familiar with and honored as a day of celebration. What date was this? The same date that Emperor Aurelian had chosen for the winter solstice, and that Mithraism followers had used to celebrate their leader: December 25th.
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