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The date of Christmas was not determined by Church Fathers by copying the date of a pagan Roman winter solstice festival. Instead, the date was calculated from the Jewish calendar using the date of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, September 22nd, 6 BC, when Gabriel appeared to Zecharias in the Temple according to Luke 1:5. The conception of John occurred “immediately after that” when Zecharias returned home to Elizabeth to the hill country of Judea, by calculation on September 24th, 6 BC.
The conception of Jesus was calculated to have occurred when Elizabeth was “in her sixth month” (Luke 1:26,36) on March 25th, 5 BC, which was also the first day of Passover in that year. John’s birth was June 24th, 5 BC, followed by Jesus’ birth in Bethlehem on December 25th, which was also the first day of Hanukkah, or the Festival of Lights, in that year. The Church Father, Hippolytus of Rome, in his work Chronicon, saw that each date had allegorical significance.
So why is Christmas celebrated on December 25th?
Read moreDid the Pilgrims almost fail in 1621 when they “tried socialism”?
This is a frequent trope that is often trotted out by conservative and libertarian political pundits around Thanksgiving. It seems to have its origin in a 1968 column by Henry Hazlitt at the height of the Cold War. The idea is that when the Pilgrims landed in Plymouth in 1620, the first governor, John Carver, had planned a communist utopia in the New World. This soon failed when the colonists became lazy and starvation and death resulted. Finally after Carver and more than half of the colonists had died, a wiser Governor William Bradford decided to make each household produce their own stock of food from farming their own lots of land. From then on, the Pilgrims prospered. “Let us be thankful for this valued lesson from our Fathers — and yield not to the temptations of socialism,” concluded Hazlitt. So goes the anti-socialist story. Numerous others have repeated this legend, including Rush Limbaugh, John Stossell, and George Will.
Although there is a grain of truth in this tale, the main problem is the timeline.
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Read moreChoose from the short videos and films and respond in a discussion group and/or as written responses. One format might be to assign the Lessons 1-12 above for homework. Then reserve group meetings to show a selection of the videos below as time permits. If you have a print version of this book, you can find the Video Seminar with live links at this URL:
https://www.forerunner.com/puritan/video-seminar
Read moreThe first 53 minutes of Trump’s UN speech sounded like it was written by the warmongering NeoCon wing of his cabinet and Republican Party. Then in the last ten minutes he turned it around. It was beautiful. He shows that…
Read moreThis was always the plan. Do the best to get both sides to negotiate and then be willing to walk away if you can’t get a deal. It’s pure “Art of the Deal” Trumpism. Basically, he repeats (with pure Trumpian…
Read moreThe following is from an email exchange I had with Jay Dickens who is an anti-Trinitarian “patertheist.” That is, he and his “church” believe that God is One – the Father – and Jesus as a mere man was an…
Read moreIt has long been my contention that the Ukraine conflict is a tragedy that could have been avoided if we had had competent leadership in the White House in the past 35 years. Each presidential administration has had a choice…
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