Right. I am confused here.?

Question

Christmastime is the celebration of the child Jesus being born.
But in my agenda it gives notification of Christian days, and on the 8th of december it says that was the day Mary got concepted.
So, how is it, was she pregnant for only a few weeks, or for more then a year?

(sorry if my English grammar sucks, I'm not English speaking, but you know what I mean.)

Answer 1

Christmas is actually based on a Pagan holiday that the early Christians "borrowed" so that the non-Christians would be more likely to convert.

Answer 2

December 25 or thereabouts is a major Pagan holiday--Yule, the Winter Solstice, Saturnalia, 3 Kings Day--Christians decided to stick with the Pagan celebrations they encountered in the people they wanted to convert/conquer, and they just slapped Christ's birthday on the celebration that was already there. I guess Mary was conceived on December 8, but that might be a Pagan holiday of some sort, too.

Jesus was probably born in the fall. But if the Bible didn't say exactly when, then it obviously doesn't matter. If people were supposed to celebrate a certain day, then it would be obvious in the Bible or some other document. So Christians say, well, um, this holiday is Christ's birthday and they act like they're not celebrating a Pagan holiday. Bunch of hypocrites.

Answer 3

I don't know where that Dec. 8th thing came from, but it may have been Jesus' REAL birthday. Dec. 25 was the Pagan winter festival, and the Roman Catholics reassigned the holiday to be the celebration of Christ's birth to try to ease the Pagans into their own religion.

Same deal with Easter and Halloween. They're pagan holidays with new Christian religious purposes for celebrating.

And if Jesus actually WAS born on the 25th and Mary concieved him on the 8th, don't wrack your brain too much around it. If God's the father and Mary was still a virgin after Christ was born, let's just go ahead and assume that God's really as omnipotent as He claims to be. *lol*

Answer 4

Christmas is a Christian holiday held on December 25 which celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ. Eastern Orthodox Churches, which use the Julian Calendar to determine feast days, celebrate on January 7 by the Gregorian Calendar. Both dates are merely traditional and neither is thought to be the actual birthdate of Jesus. Christ's birth, or nativity, is said to fulfill Old Testament prophecies concerning the coming of a messiah, or savior.

Answer 5

Well, December 25 is not actually Jesus day of birth. It is sometime in the fall months because the sheep were still out in the pastures, and they were brought in way before December. Sheep are very fragile animals and cannot withstand the cold winter months, therefore they could not have been in the pastures in December. December 25th actually originated from the pagan celebration of Saturnalia, the pagan sun god. Constantine slapped Jesus' birth on it to increase the church's numbers.

Answer 6

It depends on what calendar you are looking at. December 25 is not proven to be the birthday of Jesus, it is an estimate. There is no proven date for the conception either. They estimate it by the events that took place in that year, like the census, when Mary and Joseph had to travel to register, and the time of the bright star that the Magi followed, and the time King Herod killed all the male children in that area looking for Jesus.

Answer 7

The December celebration of the secular christian holiday..not a Biblical Sabbath or Holy Day is man made...it is thought Dec 25th was chosen by those who could choose to overshadow or replace a pagan worship day (the god Mythra) with the Birth of Jesus Christ. However, most scholars will tell you that Jesus actual time of birth was in the month of April more than likely or the Jewish month of Abib. Love in Christ, ~J~ <><

Answer 8

thhe hebrew calendar is luni solar and different from the gregorian calendar, which is only solar. December 25th is a pagan celebration of the the cun god mithra and the church wanted pagan followers to convert and stop celebrating pagan holidays. they mandated a "Christ- mass" on that day.

Jesus is believed to have been born in the fall, As it is said that the flocks were still out to pasture. The flocks are brough in in October time (on the solar calendar). So it is unliekly that jesus was born during the winter months of December. More likely that his birth took place nearly september or early october, when the flocks were still out and closer to sukkot (the Jewish feast of booths) or the Jewish new year (they occur around the same time.

Answer 9

Jesus was not born on December 25. It was a Pagan Holiday and the Christians used it to celebrate the birth of Jesus thinking that the Pagans would be more accepting of Christianity if they held their holidays on the holidays that Pagans celebrated holidays already.

Answer 10

Actually Christmas is when we Celebrate the birth of Christ, but you are right, it is not when he was born.

I'm not a scholar... my husband knows this one... but there is something about Mary being pregnant at the same time as another woman, who's husband was on this strict circuit since he was a judge, and could have only gotten his wife pregnant during a certain time because of that schedule... Something like that.

I don't want to lead you astray...but you are right about it not actually being Christ's birthday.

Maybe check out BlueLetterBible.org
It is an online bible that you can search + some scholar resources.

Answer 11

As the story goes...Mary conceived on December 8th but Christ was born on December 25. I never found a reason why her pregnancy didn't last the 9 months but I figured it was because it was an immaculate conception. I hope this helps!