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To: wideawake
This is a myth.

No pagan feast is fixed on December 25th, and the Church chose this day to set aside as a celebration of Christ, so it is not a pagan feast by definition.

You seem to confuse facts with assumptions.

For your review:

Messiahmas? On the Birth Date of Jesus of Nazareth

b'shem Y'shua

49 posted on 12/06/2005 12:26:16 PM PST by Uri’el-2012 (Y'shua <==> YHvH is my Salvation (Psalm 118-14))
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To: XeniaSt
Thanks. I'm familiar with both arguments.

(1) Your source concurs that the identification of Succoth as the day of Christ's birth is simply a theory based on a number of suppositions and inferences. Your source makes as good an argument as can be made, but it remains a theory without enough Scriptural data to make it definite.

(2) Your source knows almost nothing about classical Roman antiquity. Not only was the Babylonian calendar different from the Roman calendar - but Constantine and his family were never involved in the Babylonian cult.

His family was Greek with possible Brythonic and/or Dacian ancestry and their paganism was of the traditional Roman sort, perhaps admixed with then-fashionable Persian Mithraism.

61 posted on 12/06/2005 1:11:53 PM PST by wideawake
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To: XeniaSt

I have studied the Bible and theology for a while and I have to say that I learn more serious Biblical truth from Messianic Jews than from any other Christian body.

Sometimes I wish I was a Jew just so I could be a Messianic Jew!

Bless you and keep 'em coming!


65 posted on 12/06/2005 1:20:07 PM PST by PetroniusMaximus
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