Christmas Day, December 25th, was instituted as the ‘official’ birthday of Jesus in the 4th century, the time also when the relationship of Jesus to his heavenly father was hotly debated in a controversy regarding the nature of Jesus: was he of ‘similar essence’ or of the ‘same essence’ as God? The latter was eventually accepted as dogma(dogma from word dog): the Nicene(wgich means the mother god) creed accepts Christ as equal to God. The date of December 25th may have been chosen because it occurred around the time of the winter solstice(and saturen ceremony) , a pagan feast still celebrated at the time Christianity began to establish itself as the one of the major religions in the West(baesd on north hemispere). A beautiful mosaic from the 4th century showing Jesus as ‘Christo sole’ (Christ the Sun) has been preserved, found underneath the Basilica of St Peter in Rome. some said : that the story of gospels start and end at winter solstice مراجعة وتعليق هرمس
Posted on: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 12:54:20 +0000
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