And doesn’t this make sense spiritually that the “Lamb of God” should be born around this same time.The date was chosen by the Roman Catholic Church for various reasons, the winter solstice and the common sense of replacing a pagan holiday with a Christian Holy Day being one. If you look to animal husbandry for an answer then lambing in the free range environment of the time would have been in early Spring. You usually don’t need more than one Shepard to tend a flock unless an event (like lambing)is occurring, therefore the need for Shepard’s. Where I am from they popped out in the Spring and as soon as they were hopping about you “docked them” (put a band on their little tails, which would restrict blood flow and the little appendage would fall off -its done for sanitary reasons).
There is no misestimation because there was no attempt to do so in the first place.
I don’t know about the exact date or why it is important at all but a quick check on the weather forecast for Bethlehem for the next 10 days shows.
That is for mid January.
) I think logic and common sense should apply. Who says there is snow? Though the St Andrew Christmas Novena does say that it was “piercing cold” at midnight in Bethlehem. But that is pretty subjective as well. In a cave at midnight temps in the 40s might be “piercing cold” to a Nazarean."How do you know that at the time that happened that the “measuring system was not accurate” When was this? Even before the time of Christ dates and celestial events were not only accuate but well recorded. I cannot recall a time since Christ that Romans, Christians, israelites etc. Would not have known the exact shortest day of the year. Jewish feasts were tied to these events and pagans had them down pat as well.
