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WAS JESUS BORN ON CHRISTMAS DAY?
T
HEOLOGIANS have always boon in, u predicament over the celebration of Christ's birthday--the Now Testament nowhere says when it was.
The contemporary Roman regime was not very much concerned about recording births. Even Herod, who was furious, made no re- cords which have survived. For a time, it didn't maller For at least 300 years much.
death after Christ'a ventured to make Christ's birth- of religious day an occasion celebration, or even to mark it by any special ceremonies.
no one
TN part, the reason for the re- fuctance was theological. The gnificant event in Charlat's life
By Richard Henry
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There
wore, therefore, two schools of thought one which belloved that Christmas Day must be December 20 and one which believed that it must be
was His crucifixion, and to fol- day, but it was taken with the January 0. low St Matthew or oven St Luke almost seriousness at the in glorifying His birth seemed and for long afterwards, out of place.
Hippolytus first
1
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There the mattor might have restod, with noither ido enlculated achieving satisfaction, but for a that, when the Booic of Genesis quite extraneous fact, Moreover, early Christianity said God created the world in
In 380 the Emperor Valen- was in constant peril of being six days, resting on the seventh,
The Church had begun to tianus published a list of pubile Amorz religious wiped out, and its devotees saw it meant that God created the celebrate January 6 as the date fulldays, holidays
and only Sundays no occasion for the cont of cele-
Yours1,000 of Christ's baptism. Most people 0,000 bration which, later, was to be- world in
a day held that Christ's baptism was Easter appear come associated with Christmas, years being reckoned as
synonymous with his birth, but In part, this refutes the theory to God,
for those who hold that his birth that Christmas was timed Naturally, however, there was the date of On
had taken place on December 25 December 25 in order to com- the He then established that speculation Christ's biril
beginning of Creation would
did not
seriously object to pate with the old pagan holi- been at
date for the days, which bad always marked the Spring January as a A book written in A.D. 243 have
the day on which days, stopped to Hippolytus. Equinox, when all things sprang buplism, and ascribed then rated a scholar of out to life. Thls, reckontd Hippoly-
The theologians began one of getting shorter and began standing repute, purportedl tp us, would, in the relevant year, those delightful wrangles which, getting longer. Leg down the date according to have been March 28.
involve questions salvation and damnation exaci scientific principles Other
asculbed to Juilus Now the coming of writings,
Christ which, to the layman and even Africanus, another divine,
would have marked the end of 10 ordinary clergyman, a further period of a similar virtually incomprehensible. lowed his line.
The general tenor
period-it being the final ful. argument seems odd to us to alment of God's plan. Therefore,
WHO?
101-
of
the
—and
1 Who was "The Bisck Napoleon?**
2. The Russians once
What was the deal?
thought
Christ would have been born on March 28, in a your which fitted the theory (about 3 B.C.).
Literalists then took over the argument. The day, they reckon- ed, could not actually have re- ferred the physical birth of Christ but to Christ's concep- tion by the Holy Ghost,
Hy a complex calculation of phy dology und theology, they reasoned that this must have taken place on December 25.
10
of
but
Bre
There seems to have been no Immediate desire on the part of the public to adopt Christmas, Indeed,
Continental
some
countries, Jan
January 8, which both Epiphany (the day of Christ's baptism) and the feast of the Three Wise Men, is cole- NOME of them thought that brated rather than December
Christ was not born the Son 25, although December 20 of God but became the Son of universally acknowledged to be God upon being baptised. These the day of Christ's birth, wore called Adoptionists. The rest-and The prevailing ma- jority-believed that Christ was born the Son of God.
doca
not coincide exactly with any of the old papun festivals.
The dimerenice, in essere, was BESIDES, December 23 one between theologians who be. lieved divinity to be a spiritual
matter requiring some progres Christmas, Indred, was a Inte on the part of any human being comer in the Christian cultnder, and between theologians who
and In the days of the Ro- took Christ's divially literally a formation it was. of course, applying to Christ the man and held to be highly suspect und a not simply to Christ in His Papist Invention. spiritual perfection.
The fact that His baptism
THEN divines disputed thin They did not, the
conclusion, "token" 25243 they
Estate deals in however,
the busi question Americans in one of the biggest real
tuck been history, only to discover they
outsmarted. principles. They asserted mere.
ly that the day of the beginning celebrated while His birth was of Creation would have been not was therefore repugnant to April 0 rather than March 20. the ruling majorliy
had 3. Who died because he left his bathroom door unlocked?
Nial
have would
branded Adoptionism a heresy. brought Which explorer was so unimpressed with a great dis-Christ's birth forward
Mainly for that reason Pope covery he had made that he could not be bothered to January 8. think up a rame for R
4.
5. A prest French engineer built the Butz Canal and then went on to start the Panama Canal-but the United States Government had to come to his rescue and finish be job. Who was he and why did the project founder?
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This they reckoned in terms of the traditional dates of Christ's resurrection after His crucifixion. This event they be- ileved must have taken place,
d. Who tried to conquer Europe by bringing elephants over according to the Divine plan, on the same date as the date of the Alpa?
the beginning of Creation,
7. Which British newspaper proprietor was onor offered
the Throne of Hungary?
8. An Irishman, lenighted by England for his services as a great colonial administrator, was executed during World War I. Who was he Why was he executed?
9. What did Adviť Hitty do for a living before he turned
to politics?
10. Whose face was said to have launched a thousand ships?
11. Whlch war popularised cigarettes?
12. The assassination of an archduke was said to have started one of the greatest wars in history. Who was he, where was he killed?
13. A major revolution started after a tea party. What, in fact, was the "tea party" and what was the revolution? 14. One book is said to have done more than anything else to start the American civil war, What was it and who wrote it?
15. Two opposing generals fought a one-day battle which decided the fate of half a continent. Both were killed, and today He buried side by side. Who were they? What was the battle?
16. Which island was awarded a
World War II?
gallantry
decoration Sta
37. A famous American admiral becazne a Russian admiral.)
Who was he?
16. Which territory in said, in a superstition still widely
believed, to depend for Ita wurvival on šis spert ›
10. For a short while after tho Revolution Russia · had
democracy. Who was its Prime Minister?
a
30. Who is said to have wept because he had no more worlds
to omnquer?
-WHO SAID?
(or is popularly believed to have said) —
21. "I came, I saw, 1 conquered."
22. "Nayer in the history of human confllet has so much been
owed by so many, to so few."
23. "An army marches on its stomach.“
24. "Let them eat cake.”
25. "An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talkin' about him,
ain't listenin","
20. "You can fool some of the people mil of the time, and all
of the poorie some of the ime. But you cannot fool all of the people all of the time."
27, “Doctor Livingstone, I presume?”.
28. "I shall return.”
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and so to bed."
30. “There's one born every minute!
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