In the bible, somewhere says that Jesus celebrated a friends birthday, is that correct?
Answer HI Gladys, Perhaps your thinking about the wedding “feast” Jesus attended; as Jesus would never celebrate a birthday, it was only the custom of pagans to celebrate a birth. “Back then birthdays had strong connections with pagan religion that are less noticeable today. The custom of commemorating the day of birth is connected … in its content, with certain primitive religious principles, points out the Encyclopdia of Religion and Ethics. The Greeks believed that everyone had a protective spirit or daemon who attended his birth and watched over him in life. This spirit had a mystic relation with the god on whose birthday the individual was born. The Romans also subscribed to this idea. They called the spirit the genius. This notion was carried down in human belief and is reflected in the guardian angel, the fairy godmother and the patron saint.The Lore of Birthdays, Ralph and Adelin Linton. Another reason for early Christians to avoid birthdays was the connection with astrology.
