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To: RobbyS
by this reckoning, the Annunciation would have come about this time. Could be that the Christian calendar we have might have come about as the Church sought to disassociate herself from the Jewish calendar, to bring herself in line with the Roman calendar.

The Annunciation would have occurred at Chanukah.

Nine months back from Sukkot is Chanukah where
the "light of the world" entered the temple.

My research has shown the error crept in
during the fourth century under Constantine and
during the council of Nicea.

There was an effort to disassociate from anything
Jewish and introduce substitutes from paganism:
Ishtar and Sol Invictus .

shalom b'shem Yah'shua
81 posted on 11/22/2007 11:40:44 AM PST by Uri’el-2012 (you shall know that I, YHvH, your Savior, and your Redeemer, am the Elohim of Ya'aqob. Isaiah 60:16)
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To: XeniaSt

More like replacements for pagan feasts. Devotion to Mary, if you sre implying this, goes back into the second century, because it relates closely to the doctrine of the incarnation. No festival dats for the Nativity was universdally celebrated. Some belived that Jesus died on the anniversary of his birth. The real date controversy was over when to celebrate Easter, since this is the principal Christian feast.


102 posted on 11/22/2007 7:11:37 PM PST by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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