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It's 60 degrees in Bethlehem today. The overnight low is in the 40s. Why wouldn't they keep going until it actually gets cold?
December is the first month of winter in Bethlehem. December is also rainy for Bethlehem. If you know anything about sheep farming you'll know that sheep can not stand around in mud or wet ground. They have tender feet that need to stay dry. So yes shepherds did graze their flocks in the winter, but they did not stay outside with the flock. This is the number 1 rebuttal people have. The bible does not say they were taking the sheep out to graze. It says they were living with their sheep in the fields. Big difference. Staying in the fields usually ended in November.
If you know anything about sheep farming...
So I am supposed to deduce all of that from reading Luke?
It hasn't rained this month in Bethlehem so far, and there are only 3 days of rain forecast for the rest of the month, with one of them after the 25th. It's not fucking monsoon season. It's a couple of days of rain. When they usually end the season doesn't tell us that they always end the season then. If the weather cooperated, they would have continued having the sheep out (less winter fodder consumed.)
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