why do Christan's believe Jesus was born on Dec 25Th?

Answer 1

God when is enough enough? I have heard this stupid questioned asked and answered at least a thousand times on here. Now you have completely spoiled Christmas for me. I certainly hope your juvenile question satisfies you? xx

Answer 2

Christian's do not believe Jesus was born on Dec. 25th. This is one day out of the year to celebrate Jesus.

Answer 3

I am a Christian, and I KNOW Jesus wasn't born on Dec 25. He couldn't have been born in the winter time, because the shepards who spotted the star were letting their sheep graze, which doesn't happen in the winter. To answer your question though, some Christians believe this because that is what they have been taught by people who don't know the facts.Christmas itself has become so commercialized that not enough people bother to learn everything about Jesus

Answer 4

I don't and they don't.

It's just a day set aside to commemorate Jesus' being born of human flesh.

Even if the actual date of Jesus' birth was 1 Jan , it wouldn't trouble be the least bit.

Neither would it trouble God or Jesus.

It is not like ti's some sacred date or something. The Bible didn't say we must celebrate Christmas.

We are only commanded to celebrate the LORD's supper or Holy Communion as it is commonly called.

It is not a sin to celebrate Christmas and not a sin not to celebrate Christmas. It's just a traditional practice.

So no one needs to get so hung up about the subject of Christmas. I am not bothered too much about it.

Does it bother you ?

Answer 5

Jesus was born on January 7th, Dec 25 is a pagan holiday that the majority celebrate Xmas on because the Pope brainwashed everyone!

Answer 6

It is celebrated on that day to coincide with the practice of winter solstice. Practices like christmas trees and yule logs are pagan in descent. It was easier to get pagans to accept Christianity when it was adopted around the pagan holidays. This was a smart move by the church back then to get this group to convert.

Over the years I suppose people just forgot (not a lot of pagans around to compare with anymore) that many people just assumed that Jesus was born on Dec. 25th.

here is a little from wikipedia about the actual day.

Year and date
See also: Census of Quirinius
Gerd Theissen and Annette Merz write: "There is no certain indication of the precise year of his birth. Certainly Matthew and Luke agree in attesting that Jesus was born in the lifetime of Herod the Great (Matt. 2.1ff.; Luke 1.5), i.e. according to Josephus (Antt. 17, 167, 213; BJ 2, 10) before the spring of 4 BC/E. This is certainly probable, but there is some dispute over it, as doubts about the reliability of the chronological information in both the Matthean and Lukan infancy narratives are justified."[4]

Luke 2:1 connects the birth of Jesus to both the census of Quirinius, which took place in 6 AD/CE according to Josephus[5] and the reign of Herod the Great. Emil Schürer regards this as a chronological error in Luke. William Mitchell Ramsay argued for a series of censuses in Luke and Acts to explain the apparent discrepancy [3][4].

Some have attempted to make a more precise determination of Jesus' birthdate by correlating the magi's star (Matthew 2:2) with astronomical phenomena;[citation needed] however, Matthew 2 describes a miraculous travelling star, which does not fit into known astronomical categories, and such theories have commanded no wide assent.

Based in Josephus' Antiquities it has been traditionally inferred that Herod died at the end of March, or early April of 4 BC/E. However, David W. Beyer argued for a date of 1 BC/E based on a reinterpretation of Josephus' manuscripts.[6] The primary one is that a printer typesetting of the manuscript Antiquities made a mistake in the year 1544.[citation needed] According to some scholars, every single Josephus manuscript, held by the British Library in London and the American Library of Congress, dating from before 1544 supports the inference that Herod passed in 1 BC/E.[7] Knowing this, and since Herod according to the Gospels supposedly died shortly after Jesus' birth, a recent research study, gathering different available sources and acknowledged by leading scholars of the scientific and theological community, presents 3 to 2 BC/E as the probable time of Jesus' birth.[8]


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Answer 7

I think most are aware that Jesus was not born on December 25th. They honor Jesus on this day, even though it is not his actual birthday, just as people honor a fallen soldier at a cenotaph, knowing that the body is not really inside the tomb. An awkward analogy, but perhaps it won't be misunderstood.

Answer 8

I am a Christian, and I don't know wether He was born that day or not. Dec. 25th is just the day people decided to celebrate it. No one knows for sure when He was born.

Answer 9

Because Christianity originates in pagan practices that celebrated Saturnalia (a Roman orgy of food, wine and sex) on that date and the Nordic winter solstice feast was conviniently around the same time (Dec 21st)

Answer 10

Christians believe in thousands of things in the Bible that are scientifically untrue, historically untrue, or contradictory. A wrong birthdate is the LEAST of their problems. They don't even know what YEAR that Jesus dude was born.

Answer 11

Welll, it is a mystery but that is why it is called "faith". Last year a neighbor was going on at some length about why it was wrong to put up your Christmas tree before a certain date(sorry I do not recall that detail)because it tells you when to put them up in the Bible. Oh realllllly? I asked her where that would be(IN the Bible) and she said she was not sure but her senior class teacher at church was talking to them about it...MMmmm? curiouser and curiouser...see what I mean...that would be faith or maybe some other word; your call...(I did point out why that little detail was an error on someone's part--ya think?)