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Re: We're Not Putting X-Mas Trees Up!
IT IS TRUE that the first evidence of Christians celebrating December 25th as the date of the Lord’s nativity comes from Rome some years after Aurelian, in A.D. 336, but there is evidence from both the Greek East and the Latin West that Christians attempted to figure out the date of Christ’s birth long before they began to celebrate it liturgically, even in the second and third centuries.
Here is where the writer allows us to see that Decmber 25th comes some YEARS after the date of Aurelian's dating a Sol Invictus. Then he goes on to say BUT, there is "evidence" from both Western and Eastern churches that they what? That they ATTEMPTED to FIGURE OUT? Whatever.
In Jesus name
Brother Benincasa
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