Did you know that celebrating birthdays, which in ancient Greece and Rome you did for a "god" or "emperor" (who wanted to be worshiped as a god) was considered a PAGAN practice by early Christians?
Did you know that in some middle eastern cultures they still don't celebrate birthdays?
Now do you understand why Jesus birthday celebration wasn't something the people living in Rome who knew Christ cared to do. Mary was alive and the most likely source of Luke's gospel which has the whole infancy narrative of Jesus. If he interviewed her, the woman who give birth to the man (even if you think he was an ordinary man) do you think Mary carried a calendar around?
Totally sympathetic on the birthday point, but don't have material at hand. Here's a lot of background on the exceptionality of Jesus. Luke knew Jesus's birth year because the death of Herod was famous, but didn't seem to have the day detailed because he says "about 30" in chapter 3.
But birthdays are no longer considered pagan (itself an interesting, catch-all word to make all non-Abrahamic faiths sound scary and inaccessible) and though they frequently turn into displays of self-worship the culture at large is not doing it as a religious or spiritual ritual
No longer pagan, yes, but at the time of the early Christians it was pagan.
Indeed. I was just testing to see if this was some kind of Jehovah's witness propaganda
a) Questioning "when" permits those who answer to date/datus/dare - "to give; grant; offer", which ones consent to the answer then takes.
b) The natural order doesn't generate "common people", but each unique person. Ones consent to suggested common-ism and popul-ism permits few to ordain many into groups.
c) A birth implies a setting apart of an off-spring. Few exploit birth-daze to date birth, hence gaining control over an affixed date, while distracting each off-spring from the passage of self-discernment aka the coming into being from origin.
Thanks to birthdays...ones origin can be buried within calendars, which makes one accountable to others, who also utilize numbers to distract ONE from discerning self. Calendars utilize DAZE (days) of the WEAK (week) to distract from sun (son) and moon (month).
d) Celebrate/celeber - "frequented, crowded"... a suggested inversion of action (perceivable) setting frequent reactions (perception) apart from one another. Consenting to a suggestion crowds many frequencies together, hence distorting them.
In other words...each ones free will of choice implies frequent adaptation, while following the choices of others lowers ones frequency.
Yes, I know exactly where it came from:
F.A.Q. Holidays - Church of Satan
In the Liturgical calendar, it is the complete story of Christ every single year in perpetuity. It’s all important.
Protestants’ most Holy day is Christmas.
The Orthodox/Catholic most Holy day is Pascha. (Easter.)
The more I researched and read early Christian writings, the more I realized how Scofielded American Protestantism was.
Joseph would have known the date, knowing the date is important for tax payment.
We think Joseph was dead by the time Luke wrote his gospel, some 20 years after Jesus was crucified. The last mention of him was when Jesus was about 12, then there is nothing after that, whereas we hear about Jesus' cousins, Mary's sister, etc. etc.
Thankfully, you sound too retarded to have a child and therefore cannot neglect said child's birthdays.
When the insults come, you've lost the argument.
Merry Christmas.
I know everything you or I research is compromised on this propaganda tool. I know Jesus and God, the bible, could be pure BS, made up, mass formation psychosis.
Don't let anyone think for u