Superficially this is attested by the worldwide acceptance of a system of dating in which
the supposed year of his birth marks the inauguration of our age.
Not exact matches
That is why they were led to name the
supposed birth year of Jesus as the point which marked the end
of the old age and the beginning
of the new.
We see signs
of continuity in the way we still number our
years from the
supposed birth date
of Jesus Christ, and we still preserve the Christian holy days as our holidays.
The practice
of numbering
years consecutively from the
supposed year of Christ's
birth didn't take hold in Western Christendom until the eighth century.
Although the calendar starts from the
supposed birth of Jesus Christ, no one really knows what
year Jesus was born.
Secondly, the calendar which numbers the
years from the
supposed birth year of Jesus
of Nazareth was established by Christians, and is peculiar to the Christian tradition.
Although having to go through IVF and gestational diabetes and 2 c - sections and Joey's NICU / nursery stays and both kids self weaning were all huge emotional and physical traumas for me (and my husband), now that they're in the past and I'm a mommy to two amazing toddlers, I can see that it all worked out how it was
supposed to.And my advice to all new mothers who hope / plan to nurse take a breastfeeding class when pregnant, have a breastpump in the house before the baby is born, buy nursing bras that have front panels that you can open easily (and bring some to the hospital with you when you go to give
birth), don't be afraid to pump and let someone else give the baby a bottle
of your milk when you need to sleep, hold off on introducing baby food until much closer to 1
year old than 6 ohtnms, and be prepared for it to be hard and possibly painful at first (think cracked, bleeding nipples and breasts that are so full
of milk you think they will explode so also have lanolin and / or nipple cream in the house, and nurse or pump well before you let yourself become engorged and in pain).
But it could just as easily struggle to find an audience and be forgotten even more quickly than
supposed early frontrunner The
Birth of a Nation was last
year.