What I don't really understand is the greatest coincidence in this world.?

Question

How could Jesus be born on Christmas Day, does that represent that he was a gift from God or something. Cos it sure is a coincidence.

Answer 1

The biggest problem facing the christian church as it expanded into northern and western Europe was paganism, which is basically about fertility - a pretty natural obsession of a substistence society. The trick they used was to divide and conquer the religion itself.

Some things were, literally, demonised, made into the enemy. The god of fertility, Pan, became Satan, which was an astute move since christianity was and is really antagonistic towards overly liberal shagging. To this day Europeans and those they have influenced are still pretty hung up about sex as a result. IMHO.

But complete opposition to the entire religion would not have worked. So other things were not demonised, they were co-opted. This was the trick with the festivals. Christmas celebrated the passing of the winter solstice and promised that spring was not far off - fertility again - the evergreen tree is a symbol of life getting through the bad times. So the church rebranded it as Jesus' birthday, and managed to keep the newly converted pagans onside. Harvest festival too (god's abundent goodness etc). As for Easter - spring? resurrection? eggs? bunnies? need I say more?

The church hasn't much of an idea of when Jesus was born, but it doesn't really care - Christmas is convenient. Easter is a bit easier, because Jesus' death was reported to be around the time of the Jewish Passover festival, so you can sort of place it around the time of the pagan bunny stuff - a natural fit.

Answer 2

He was not born on Christmas day, nor did he die at Easter, these are just dates that man has decided suited the world better it's been said he was born around April, but how they know that when the calender we have now in most parts of the world did not exist. Plus as in all stories I'm sure it would have got mixed up, so in the end it was Guess work, but hey who cares he was born and that's all that matters.

Love & Peace

Answer 3

No one knows the exact date of Jesus's birth. It is doubtful that it was actually December the 25th. Still, Christianity wants to honor the Birth of Christ but, in order to do so, a date must be picked on which all Christians can celebrate Jesus's birth.

Why Dec 25th? There is a reason, and it's a long story and a good explanation would take up too much space and time here.

Answer 4

We don't know the day when Christ was born.

I've heard that He was probably born in spring. Christmas replaced a pagan 12 day feast, thus the 12 days of Christmas.

Answer 5

It's also amazing that he was born on the same day that thousands (millions??) of pagans celebrated the winter solstice.

Truly an amazing coincidence.

Answer 6

Christmas day is a celebration of the birth of Christ.

It's no coincidence we celebrate it on his birthday.

We may all have the date wrong though.

Answer 7

jesus was probably born in the spring, we just celebrate it Christmas day because it took the place of a pagan holiday

Answer 8

The other coincidence is that he rose from death at Easter. The other biggest pagan festival in the calender!!

Answer 9

Thanks to Constantine and and a group of Pagans and Christians during his reign they combined certain holidays.
The facts point to the idea that Christ probably both was born and died in early April. But hey, we'll enjoy our holidays anyway right?

Answer 10

he wasn't born Christmas, it was in April, they picked a holiday so it would be easy to remember him