HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE!
Notice I did not say “Merry Christmas!” Well, because December 25 isn’t really, truly, the correct day of Christ’s birth. By now because of the advancement in communication and technology, and the availability of treatises and data in the Internet, most people know this fact. The question is, why haven’t the different Christian churches, especially the Catholic church who instituted this wrong date, corrected the error.
Two popes, both name John Paul did try to correct the error. They both died of questionable circumstances.
FILIPINOS ARE BLESSED
Filipinos are really blessed. Why? Because for some divine reason, perhaps, they start celebrating Christmas on September 1, which is the correct day. In the Philippines, you’ll start hearing Christmas songs exactly on the first of September, and that has been the tradition for over half a century.
THE CORRECT DAY
The
date December 25, A.D. 1 is absolutely wrong in all contexts, Biblical,
historical and scientific.
In Chapter 2 of the Gospel According to Matthew, it is narrated that wise men/visitors from the East came to Jerusalem seeking “He who has been born King of the Jews.” They said they saw “His Star in the East and have come to worship Him.”
According
to an old Chinese Han Dynasty astronomical record, a supernova occurred on
September 1, 5 B.C., visible for about seven months along a path from the eastern sky,
going westward “above the heavens from the Heilong Jiang (Black Dragon River,
China) passing the Gobi and Taklamakan Deserts on to Hyrcania (Caspian Sea),
and farther west to where the Mediterranean and Red Seas meet.” Similar records
occurred in Korean, Mongolian, and Mesopotamian (Iraq) archives.
IT’S IN THE BIBLE
“Behold,
a virgin shall conceive and bear a Son and His name shall be Immanuel.” – Isaiah 7:14, c.f. Matthew 1:23.
Prophesied
700 years prior to the glorious event, the Bible narrates significant facts
that contradict December 25, A.D. 1 as Jesus Christ birth day. Among them the
pasturing of sheeps (July to October), clear night sky in the Middle East
(March to October), the reign of King Herod I (73 – 4 B.C.), and Quirinius was
appointed legate governor of Syria (5 B.C.) by Emperor Augustus (63 B.C. – A.D.
14) who ordered a census be made (also 5 B.C.).
ATTEMPT TO CORRECT THE MISTAKE
Historically,
the December 25 day was adopted from two pagan traditions, the Saturnalia and the Sol Invictus. It was done to subjugate the pagans into accepting
Catholicism. There were those who attempted to correct this Catholic mistake, among them two popes, John Paul I (real name Albino Luciani, 1912-1978) and John Paul II (Karol Jozef
Wojtyla, 1920-2005), but they died (some alleged they were assassinated) before
it was even propose.
