Re: Question for Christians?
I understand that in the time of Christ PBUH the lunar calendar was followed.
In the time of Jesus Christ Julius Ceasar has already drawn up his calender and the whole Roman world followed it. Obviously individual religions continued to follow their own religious calendars, as they still do today. For all administrative/legalistic/governmence, the Julius Ceasar calendar (which was an improvement on previous calendar systems) was used. The Jews did not follow a lunar calendar as they had 12 months in their year.
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Then why does the date for Christmas not shift yearly now.
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Seminole is correct on this. As Christian I consider Christmas a pagan day because of its origen. Jesus was more likely to have been born during September.
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On the contrary Easter is not celebrated on fixed dates.
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Seminole is partly correct. Easter is supposed to follow the Jewish religious day but not always. For example, this year Easter is celebrated on Friday the 21'st which is when the Jews celebrate "Purim". It should actually be celebrated during "Pass-over" which the Jews celebrate during April. Don't know how the Easter date therefor are fixed, or by whom.
At the time of Isa (AS) not only was the lunar calendar followed but also the early Christians i.e. the followers of Isa (AS) observed the Jewish law. They abstained from pork, they worshipped 'The Father in Heaven' and not Jesus (AS), and their males were circumcised.
Not true. The Jewish calendar was not a lunal calendar with 13 months but 12. The early Christians did not follow the Jewish law or abstained from pork, as can be seen from Acts 15. The male children of the Christian Jews were sometimes still circumcised but it was not a requirement for non-Jewish Christians.
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You will see the name of the two predominant Christian solar calendars.
Julian and Greogorian ... both are linked with the Romans and the latter with the Christians.
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The Julian calendar refers to Julius Caesar who was no Christian. In the 15'th century Copernicus proved that the Earth was not the centre of the universe and his findings were used by Gregorian to impliment the calendar as we know it today. It has NOTHING to do with a so-called "solar" calendar.