When Jesus reached age 30 he was baptized and by Hebrew customs finally became relevant. I was speaking of his spiritual rebirth anyway. And if they expected Jesus to lead an insurgency they would have to wait a long time. That was never the intention. He was born to be the lamb of God, meaning a sacrifice to wash our sins away replacing the old tradition of sacrificing an unspoiled calf or lamb.Again, not necessarily. Though Jewish I was raised with Christmas, Easter, Halloween. But as the secular holidays they in fact are. The religious aspects were left out.
That doesn't mean they're not still incorporated into the various religions.
There's no evidence, for instance, that Jesus was born in December. There's plenty of evidence that it was simply plunked onto an existing and long-held observance.
I believe he was born 12 days after Dec 25th. Christmas was just the first day of the celebrations.
Nope. The "twelve days" and Twelfth Night are associated with old Anglo-Saxon traditions of wassailing and with the beginning of the old Roman season of carne vale ("farewell to flesh", or Carnival (Mardi Gras)). Nothing to do with Jesus.
I read that that was the case. His spiritual birth was when he was baptized by John the Baptist.12 days after Dec. 25th
You realize that being 12 days old would make it kind of difficult for them to have the conversation -- John himself being only six months older ("I have need to be baptized of thee!")....
It's been theorized that what was happening --whenever it happened-- was John recruiting ("baptizing") his cousin for an insurgency group to rise against the Romans. John being the elder of the two having a sort of right of succession. And of course when John was taken out of the picture the road was then clear for Jesus to take over the insurgency, ride into town on an ass and start a riot in the temple, which lines up nicely with what the Romans tried and crucified him for... so more correctly it could be said that the RCC has not pagan roots but political ones.