(December 24, 2017 at 9:15 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:(December 20, 2017 at 12:44 pm)Minimalist Wrote: https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/dail...=ZE7ADTZ02
In any shitty fish story - the fish always gets bigger!
The purpose of the wise men bringing gifts to baby Yeshua was to illustrate the sentence in the 4th Commandment about "And none shall appear before Me empty-handed." By bringing gifts it showed that the guys recognized baby Yeshua as a living deity although they had no relationship to his family at all or to anyone in Bethlehem. The current date of December 25 is irrelevant to the the fairy tale and totally meaningless.
Today most people exchange gifts on December 25 as a way to maintain social bonding and not as a religious observance.
If we followed biblical holidays we would be observing the Feast of Unleavened Bread (the 3rd Commandment) and the Feast of Weeks and the Feast of Ingathering at the year's end (the 6th Commandment). Then there's always the new moon festivals.
Which version of that fiction are you using?
3rd Commandment- "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain"
4th Commandment- "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy"
6th Commandment- "Thou shalt not kill"
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
