WHY DECEMBER 25 IS LIKELY THE REAL DATE FOR CHRISTMAS Excellent article by Johnny Wilson on why Christmas is likely Dec. 25 and no, its not based on a pagan holiday! Its also near Hanukkah, which makes sense to me since it is the Festival of Lights and Jesus is the Light of the world. ==However, the coincidence that the Nativity is celebrated on the day the solstice anciently occurred in the civil calendar is no more evidence that the date is contrived than the coincidence that Christ’s passion and resurrection occurred near the vernal equinox. Indeed, might not God have chosen man’s salvation to come about precisely this way because of its poetic symbolism and value? Malachi associated Christ with the sun over 400 years before his birth, saying, “the Sun of Righteousness shall arise with healing in his wings” (Mal. 4:2). New Testament writers make similar use of the metaphor (Lk. 1:78; Jn. 1:4, 9; 2 Pet. 1:19). Thus, it is altogether fitting that Christ should come into the world in the dark of winter, bringing spiritual light and salvation, and be raised from the dead in the spring when the earth is reborn after the pall of sin and winter death.” fairmindednotions/2014/12/14/christmas-and-its-christian-origins/
Posted on: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 02:53:25 +0000
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