This is just a friendly comment/question, not meant to provoke.

1. How do we answer those who may balk at this because the emphasis on the date sounds like we're trying to assert a particular date to be the birthdate of Christ? (My answer would be that this only proposes the year, not the day.)

2. What are the origins of this? I'm just curious to where this can be traced to.

Kevin Yoakum