When was Jesus Born

WHEN WAS JESUS BORN?: M. M. NINAN
members of the Roman Senate. So it appears that Aurelian, who was
hostile to Christianity, picked a date with no pagan sun worship and
created one. Why?. Some suggest that he was trying to create a pagan
alternative to another festival on that day to help unite his empire. That
other festival was the celebration of Jesus' birth. In fact, in spite of
Aurelian's declaration, there is no record of celebrating Sol Invictus on
December 25 until AD 354/362, much later than the Christian
celebration in Africa and elsewhere. The only explicit reference to a
celebration of Sol in late December is made by Julian the
Apostate in his hymn to King Helios written 363 AD. Earlier dates
of Sol Invictus celebration were August 8 and/or 9, August 28, and
December 11.
It was only in the 17th and 18th Centuries that secular enlightenment
scholars started to suggest that Christianity had borrowed the date of
Christmas from pagans.
This date had no connection to pagan gods or ideas -- these were
invented years later.”
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Facing the East.
In the book of Genesis is the story of God providing a garden in the
east, in Eden. The Israelites, when they left Egypt to search for the
Promised Land headed east across the Red Sea. It is from the east that
we get our orientation, our direction, our warmth, our light, our energy.
The east is where new things begin.
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