The Real Christmas Quiz - Bible Trivia Questions

<h4>Your browser does not support Bible Trivia iframes.</h4>The Real Christmas Quiz|This quiz is designed to show you the real truth behind Christmas, looking at some of the popular traditions from the biblical point of view and ensuring that you don't celebrate Christmas in ignorance of the facts. More traditional Christmas quizzes can be found at... <a href="http://www.biblequizzes.org.uk/quiz.php?thebirthofjesusi" target=_top>Christmas Quiz I - Easy</a> & <a href="http://www.biblequizzes.org.uk/quiz.php?thebirthofjesusii" target=_top>Christmas Quiz II - Difficult</a> Please fill in your name/nickname/alias and your e-mail address. (Your e-mail is required for grading purposes, but will never be used or displayed) You have to answer all the questions before you can submit the quiz for scoring.|Name/Nickname:|E-Mail Address:|N/A|The Bible says that Jesus was born in December? # True %% False %%|Jesus was not born in 0 A.D.? # True %% False %%|We are told that Mary rode into Bethlehem on a donkey? # True %% False %%|Jesus was circumcised on the 8th day of his life? # True %% False %%|Early Christians celebrated the birth of Jesus? # True %% False %%|The barn animals miraculously spoke the night Jesus was born? # True %% False %%|God is the real father of Jesus? # True %% False %%|Jesus always celebrated his birthday? # True %% False %%|Micah foretold that Jesus would be born in Bethlehem? # True %% False %%|Mary, mother of Jesus, did not remain a virgin for the rest of her life? # True %% False %%|God told people to remember the birth of his son? # True %% False %%|The angels told the shepherds that they should worship the baby Jesus? # True %% False %%|The angel said “Peace on earth to all men”? # True %% False %%|The wise men were present at the birth site of Jesus? # True %% False %%|We are told that the angels sang at the announcement of Jesus’ birth? # True %% False %%|The Bible tells us that three kings riding on camels visited Jesus? # True %% False %%|Mary gave birth on the night that she arrived in Bethlehem? # True %% False %%|The star led the wise men straight to Jesus? # True %% False %%|The tradition of giving presents at Christmas comes from the wise men presenting gifts? # True %% False %%|25th December was originally the date of a Roman festival? # True %% False %%REM: Quiz Name - The Real Christmas Quiz 1|The Bible does not mention when Jesus was born. The most likely date is not 25th December, with the best evidence pointing towards the end of September or early October. The shepherds were still tending to their flocks in the fields, but practice was that the shepherds would only keep their flocks in the fields from April to October, taking them back home to shelter them over the winter months. 2|Jesus could not have been born in the year 0 A.D. as it doesn't actually exist historically - our calendar jumps straight from 1 B.C. to 1 A.D. with no intervening year zero. Also, Dionysius was commissioned to establish the year of Christ's birth and due to insufficient historical data he arrived at a date which was a few years late. The birth of Christ is generally accepted to be around 5 or 6 B.C. as Herod died in 4 B.C. 3|Although perfectly possible that she rode upon a donkey, the Bible says nothing about how Mary entered Bethlehem and there are various other possibilities. The Bible only says that she came with Joseph. 4|Jesus was an Israelite (Jew) and therefore would have been circumcised according to the law of Moses on the 8th day. (Luke 2 v 21) 5|There is no mention of either the apostles or the early Christians celebrating the birth of Jesus. There is no trace of Christmas until it was first mentioned by the Roman Church in 336 A.D. 6|The barn animals talking is an ancient myth that has absolutely no biblical grounding whatsoever. 7|Joseph was the stepfather of Jesus, but God is his real father. 8|The idea of celebrating birthdays is a pagan one and neither the Jews, the apostles nor Jesus celebrated them. 9|The prophet Micah prophesised that Jesus would be born in Bethlehem , five hundred years before the event. (Micah 5 v 2) 10|Mary went on to have other children with her husband Joseph. (Mark 6 v 3, Matt 13 v 55 - 56) 11|We are told to remember Jesus' death, not his birth. (1 Cor 11 v 23 - 26) 12|The angels did not tell the shepherds to worship Jesus, the shepherds merely went to ‘see' the baby Jesus and when the shepherds returned they were praising and worshipping God, not the baby Jesus. (Luke 2 v 15, 20) 13|The angel said “on earth peace, goodwill toward men”. The word ‘peace' from a biblical sense does not mean the absence of war or strife between people, but rather a ‘peace with God', a peace that Jesus was to make with God at his sacrifice. Goodwill looks back to the Hebrew ratzah , which is often associated with acceptable sacrifice, thus ‘goodwill toward men' means reconciliation through the greatest of all Days of Atonement – Jesus' sacrifice. The alternative textual reading of: ‘to men of goodwill', means the same thing: ‘peace to men who know themselves reconciled to God through Jesus'. (Luke 2 v 14) 14|Almost every depiction of the nativity scene shows well dressed wise men, surrounded by shepherds, presenting their gifts to Jesus while he was in the manger. The Bible truth is very different for they clearly did not visit Jesus while he was still lying in the manger (Matt 2 v 11). They met in a house and Jesus was a young child. It is possible that he was walking and talking by the time they reached him. Herod ordered the killing of all the children up to two years old for he knew that Jesus could have been nearly two years old by then. (Matt 2 v 16) 15|The popular Christmas carol “Hark the Herald Angels Sing” may suggest they did, but the Bible doesn't say anything specific about the angels singing. (Luke 2 v 13) 16|The Bible does mention magi coming to visit Jesus, but does not say how many or that they were kings riding camels. There were at least two as the word magi is plural, but there could have been many more. The Bible simply mentions three gifts, but does not imply that there were three of them or that they were kings. There is no mention of camels either. (Read Matt Ch 2) 17|The Bible would suggest otherwise (Luke 2 v 6). Arriving in town well before her due date would make more sense. 18|The star led them first to King Herod, after which they saw the star again leading them to Jesus, but they were two separate sightings of the star and not continuous (see Matt 2 v 2, 9) 19|In pre-Christian Rome, the emperors compelled their most despised citizens to bring offerings and gifts during the Saturnalia festival (in December) and Kalends (in January). Later, this ritual expanded to include gift-giving among the general populace. The Catholic Church gave this custom a Christian flavour by re-rooting it in the supposed gift-giving of Saint Nicholas. 20|The original significance of 25th December is that it was a well-known festival day celebrating the annual return of the sun. 21st December is the winter solstice (shortest day of the year and thus a key date on the calendar), but 25th December is the first day that ancients could clearly note that the days were definitely getting longer and the sunlight was returning. On this day the Romans worshipped the ‘Unconquered Sun' or Sun god.The date for Christmas was chosen by the Roman Catholic Church. Because Rome dominated most of the "Christian" world for centuries, the date became tradition throughout most of Christendom.So, why was 25th December chosen to remember Jesus Christ's birth? Since no one knows the day of his birth, the Roman Catholic Church felt free to choose this date. The Church wished to replace the pagan festival with a Christian holiday. The psychology was that is easier to take away an unholy (but traditional) festival from the population, when you can replace it with a good one.

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