It’s been said for years that shepherds wouldn’t be watching their flocks at night in the dead of winter.
Jesus would have been born in the springtime, say some.
And who CARES what His zodiac sign might have been?
And wasn’t the current Christmas observance superimposed over a former pagan holiday?
None of this, of course, diminishes in any way the Miracle of the Nativity of our Lord.
>And who CARES what His zodiac sign might have been?
Kooky astrologers and people in discos.
>And wasn’t the current Christmas observance superimposed over a former pagan holiday?
Yup, as were a bunch of others.
>None of this, of course, diminishes in any way the Miracle of the Nativity of our Lord.
Nope, not a bit.
Astronomers who care about Jesus’ astrological sign are really ASTROLOGISTS.
Well probably the Magi (if in fact the biblical "Wise Men" were actually "Magi".)
Magi were Persian astrologers among their other duties. Besides what would count would be Farsi astrology, not the bastardized Greek astrology of today.
“And wasn’t the current Christmas observance superimposed over a former pagan holiday?”
The festival of Sol Invictus, the unconquerable Sun.
Jesus would have been born in the springtime, say some.
I've seen a lot of speculation in the past that Jesus was born in the springtime with the other lambs.
And who CARES what His zodiac sign might have been?
I think the writer was trying to be cute.
And wasn’t the current Christmas observance superimposed over a former pagan holiday?
None of this, of course, diminishes in any way the Miracle of the Nativity of our Lord.
Agreed.
I think it's wonderful that we've been able to, as a society, pick a single day to note his birth. Doesn't matter when the actual birth was on the calendar (especially since calendars have changed a lot over the centuries - I think one pope declared that a month be dropped some time in the middle ages because the existing calendar had drifted out of sync so much). We celebrate his birth together. Calendar dates are much less significant.