The feast of Christmas was not celebrated in any way in the early days of Christianity. In a religious branch born of Judaism, there was no reason to celebrate the birth of the Messiah, who only became such in adulthood. Furthermore, the end of the world was seen as something immediate. If the end of the world is immediate, there is no place for celebrations. The birth of Jesus is only established as a holiday with the passage of time, when Christianity is adopted by the Roman Empire as a legitimate religion. It is at this time that the Church must give religious holidays to the masses. What the church did was take pagan festivals and infuse them with a religious sense. The feast of the Sun was on December 25, the light that conquers the darkness, Christianity could adopt the position of substituting the birth of the undefeated sun for the birth of the Messiah.
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What do we really know about the figure of Judas and his suicide?
Did Jesus have brothers?
Was Mary Magdalene a prostitute?
What can we know about Mary Magdalene and her relationship with Jesus?
Was Mary Magdalene really at the Last Supper?
Was the character deified by the first Christians by reinterpreting existing scriptures?
What were the main currents of early Christianity?
Was Jesus a notable rabbi?
What can we know about the resurrection of Jesus?
What remarkable contribution do the apocryphal gospels make about the life of Jesus?
Could there be in the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas part of the message of a more authentic Jesus?
Why didn't his disciples write about Jesus?
What is the reason why the figure of Jesus has endured in time?
Was Jesus a Christian or did he claim to found any religion?
