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December 25 Birthday of the Sun ~ December 25 Birthday of the Sun The Christmas superholiday is the standard for popular observances today Families will gather on December 25 gorge themselves on ham and turkey stare at a decorated tree while a swooning Bing provides the ambience and exchange billions of dollars in gifts many of them unwanted
Christmas Before Christianity How the Birthday of the ~ Christmas Before Christianity How the Birthday of the Sun Became the Birthday of the Son is a sensational work that will not only provoke discussion but will also inspire a renewed appreciation for both the religion of our Lord and for the sacred annual celebration of His birth Available in paperback and hardcover
Celebrating The Birth of the Sun ~ And in 354 the ascendant Christian church in the reign of his pious but unsavory son Constantius II found it prudent to change the celebration of the birth of Jesus from the traditional date January 6 to December 25 in order to combat the pagan Sun god’s popularity—his “birthday” being December 25
How December 25 Became Christmas Biblical Archaeology ~ December 25 is the sun god’s birthday Christians did not celebrate the sun god’s birthday so were left out of the festivities So that they could celebrate at that time of the year too someone decided to call December 25th Jesus’ birthday
Jesus Birthday When Was It Why Do Christians ~ Christmas is the day that the Christian church has chosen to mark or celebrate the birth of Christ the incarnate beginning of the Son of God He is God eternal so we need to note that he had no
DECEMBER 25th – The Birth of a “sungod” Christmas – the ~ even to placing the birth of Christ on a date to harmonize with the pagan birthday celebration of the sungod It was in the FIFTH Century that the Roman Catholic Church commanded that the birth of Christ be observed forever on December 25 – the day of the old Roman feast of the birth of Sol one of the names of the sungod
Christmas Before Jesus Birth of the Unconquered Sun ~ The new religion went down a bit easier knowing that feasts such as honoring the birth of the Pagan sun god Mithras would continue Most historians agree that Christmas ChristMass as we know it today began in Germany though Catholics and Lutherans still disagree about which church first celebrated it
Why Christmas is held on 25th December Ancient Origins ~ The answer points back to the Romans pagan celebrations of the winter solstice Two celebrations in particular took place around December 25 the Saturnalia and the birthday of the Sun God Mithra Catholic Encyclopedia The Saturnalia festival began on 17 th December and later expanded with festivities through to the 25 th December It paid tribute to Saturn the agricultural God of Sowing and Husbandry and was associated with the renewal of light and the coming of the new year
Birthday of Jesus ~ On December 25 the date of the winter solstice pagan Romans still in the majority celebrated Natalis Solis Invincti “Birthday of the Invincible Sun God” Mithras
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