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DIVESTED of all explanation, the announcement of the fact thatthe time of the birth of many of the incarnated Gods and Saviors ofantiquity was fixed at the same period, and this period the twenty-fifth of December, celebrated all over Christendom as the birthdayof Jesus Christ, would sound marvelously strange, especially whenit is noticed that this period formerly dated the birth of a newyear -- the birth of King Sol. And when we find that the ancientpagans were in the habit of celebrating this venerated twenty-fifthof December as the birthday of their Gods in the same mannerChristians now celebrate it as the birthday of Christ, we aredriven to admit that something more than mere fortuitous accidentmust be adduced to account for the coincidence.According to Dr. Lightfoot, the temple of Jerusalem wasemployed in celebrating the birthday of a pagan God (Adonis) on thevery night Christians assign for the birth of Christ. And RobertTaylor informs us that nearly all the nations of the East were oncein the habit of rising at midnight to celebrate the birthday oftheir Gods, on the twenty-fifth of December. And to this statementMr. Higgins adds that, "At the first moment after midnight of thetwenty-fourth of December, the ancient nations celebrated theaccouchement of the queen of heaven and celestial virgin, and thebirth of the God Sol, the Infant Savior, and the God of Day.Bacchus of Egypt, Bacchus of Greece, Adonis of Greece,Chrishna of India, Chang-ti of China, Chris of Chaldea, Mithra ofPersia, Sakia of India, Jao Wapaul (a crucified Savior of ancientBritain), were all born on the twenty-fifth of December, accordingto their respective histories. Chrishna is represented to have beenborn at midnight on the twenty-fifth of the month Savarana, whichanswers to our December, and millions of his disciples celebratedhis birthday by decorating their houses with garlands and giltpaper, and the bestowment of presents to friends. The Rev. Mr.Barret tells us, "It was once common for the women in Rome toperambulate the streets on the twenty-fifth of December, singing ina loud voice, "Unto us a child is born this day."The twenty-fifth of December, then, it will be observed, wasmarked as the birthday of the incarnated Gods, Saviors, and Sons ofGod, of many of the religious systems of antiquity, long prior tothe birth of Christ.And why his birth was fixed at that date is not hard toaccount for. According to the celebrated Christian writer Mr.Goodrich, the Christian world had no chronology and recorded nodates for several centuries after the commencement of the Christianera. (See History of all Nations, p. 23.) No event of their historywas marked by dates for nearly four hundred years. Hence, the timeof Christ's birth is altogether a matter of conjecture, as is alsoevery other event noticed in the Christian bible. This is proved bythe fact that the ablest Christian writers and chronologists differto the extent of thirty-five hundred years in fixing the time ofevery event in the bible. A Mr. Kennedy presents us with threehundred different chronological systems, by different Christianwriters, all founded on the bible, and proving that the date of itsvarious events are inextricably involved in a labyrinth of doubt,darkness and uncertainty.Relative to the time of Christ's birth, the "EncyclopediaBritannica" says: "Christians count one hundred and thirty-threecontrary opinions of different authors concerning the year theMessiah appeared on earth -- many of them celebrated writers."(Art. Chron.) Mark the declaration -- one hundred and thirty-threedifferent opinions as to the year Christ was born in; one hundredand thirty-three different years fixed on by different Christianchronologists as the time of the birth of the most extraordinaryand most noted being, as Christians would have us believe, thatever appeared on earth. Think of an omnipotent God descending fromheaven, performing astounding miracles, and presenting other proofsof being a God, and yet not one of the three hundred writers ofthat era take any notice of him, or make any note of his birth orany event of his life. This circumstance is of itself sufficient tobanish and dissipate all faith in his divinity.It is evident, from the facts just presented, that all systemsof Christian chronology are founded on mere conjecture, and henceshould be rejected as worthless. What event of Christ's life, then,can be accepted as certain, when no record was made of it till thetime was forgotten, and none for at least half a century after thedawn of the Christian era, according to Dr. Lardner, when nearlyall who witnessed it must have been dead?We think the most reasonable conclusion in the case is, thatChrist, instead of performing those Munchausen prodigies attributedto him -- such as casting out devils, raising the dead, controllingthe elements of nature, etc. -- led such an ordinary, obscure life-- excelling only in healing the sick and other noble deeds ofcharity and philanthropy -- that he attracted but little notice bythe higher classes, or by anybody but those of a similar turn ofmind, till he was deified by Constantine, in the year 325 A.D.Hence, the time of his birth was not recorded, and was forgotten.Consequently, the twenty-fifth of December was selected as hisbirthday, because it was the birthday of other Gods, and because itwas regarded by the heathen, from time immemorial, as the birthdayof Sol, the glorious luminary of heaven, it being the period he isborn again into a new year, and "commences again his journey andhis life;" and because, also, this epoch was, as Sharon Turnerinforms us, in his "History of the Anglo-Saxons," the commencementof a new year up to the tenth century.These events signalized the twenty-fifth of December, and madeit a period of sufficient importance to lead the early Christiansto suppose it must have been the birthday of their Messiah.Mosheim, however, confesses that the day or the year in which ithappened "has not been fixed with certainty, notwithstanding theprofound researches of the learned." So that it is still an openquestion as to when Christ was born. What day of the month, whatyear, or what century it took place in, is still unknown. Thiscircumstance is, as before suggested, sufficient of itself toutterly prostrate all faith in the divine claims for Jesus Christ.What would be thought of a witness who should testify in court tothe truth of an occurrence of which he did not know the year, oreven the century, in which it took place, or who could come nonearer than one hundred and thirty-three years in fixing orguessing at the time. Would the court accept such testimony?
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