Why do the Christian religions celebrate the birth of Jesus on December 25th?

Question

Even the Bible points to him being born on September (or possibly July), who was it that decided to change it, why December 25th?

some people have commented that no month is mentioned in the Bible. True, however, with various feast days highlighting when John the Baptist was born, we can extrapolate to an approximate date of the birth of Jesus as we know how many months after John he was born.

Answer 1

That date has been used for thousands of years to celebrate the winter solstice. When Pagan Roman emperor Constantin and christian sects leader teamed up during the 4th century AD to build a domination system to share power and money they also revamped the marketing of the sect. They chose many traditional celebration dates like the one you mentioned and decided that these dates would be religious celebrations.

Answer 2

Pastor Billy says: Why not have feast celebrating the birth of our Savior? Some people to be difficult attempt to argue away this celebration claiming it is actually of pagan origin but is celebrating Jesus a pagan thing to do? The fact is you could use this type of argument against any other day of year also but it would change the fact that Christians are celebrating the coming of Jesus Christ and no other. December 25th has never been claimed as the actual date of birth by any Christian group including Catholics. Eastern Church Catholics use Jan 6 many that is a problem but honestly why would it be. The way people act petty and argue against celebrating the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ I'd think they real don't like him at all.

So ask yourself if people are looking toward Jesus Christ because of Christmas is that bad? is that really non-biblical? be honest with yourself now.

Answer 3

The reason the churches celebrate Christmas is due to emperor Constantine deciding to make Christianity a state religion, the leading families and business men of the day wanted to be in the emperors good books so switched to Christianity in word only but still practised pagan beliefs and idols.
If you want to celebrate the birth of Jesus then it would be on 29th Oct. This would be around the time when the Jewish nation would celebrate The Feast of Tabernacles.

Answer 4

Because the Winter solstice, known as Yule, was held on the shortest day to celebrate the return of the sun and the coming of Springtime, also the Roman festival of Saturnalia was held at Midwinter to celebrate the god Saturn and generally get drunk and have a good time. Mithraic religions also celebrated the birth of Mithras in December.

The early Church decided that rather beat their heads against a brick wall by celebrating Jesus' birthday in July all by themselves, they tied his birthday in with Yule, Saturnalia and Mithras' birth by celebrating it in December, so all the pagans would join in.

Answer 5

the precise date does not actually matter style ..Dec. (12th month=a million+2=3), 25 (2+5=7)..3 the Holy Trinity, 7 the suited style of Jesus Christ. The numbers in high quality condition, no be counted what detractors say related to the day..that's nevertheless celebrated because of fact the delivery of our Lord. Pagans and non believers will cherry %. something to devalue Jesus, I do in basic terms no longer pay lots interest to it. it relatively is a team of bitter, redundant nonsense. God bless and Merry Christmas.

Answer 6

this question has been asked and answered many time but for you i will give you the answer A bishop called Iberia decided several hundred years after the birth of Christ to incorporate a big roman festival which was the old year going into the new year with the god Janus the two head god looking into the old and the new hence the month of January , as were most pagan roman festival were incorporated into the early christian church.
so just enjoy Christmas for what it is IE an excuse to over eat drink and spend happy Christmas

Answer 7

not all do, orthodox Christians celebrate X-mas on the 7th of Jan. The 25th of December is a date of a pagan festival, so as to not have to change the calendar too much it was chosen to be on the same day.
Can you imagine the stressed caused for the government by changing bank holidays.

Answer 8

Jesus was born over 2000 years ago, do you honestly think anybody in this day and time knows when He was born? No, they don't, but they like to do alot of guessing. Once a year on December 25 we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ that should be all that matters. We need to start focusing on Him instead of arguing on when He was actually born, because we're never going to know, because we weren't around 2000 years ago.

Answer 9

Lot's of Christian symbolism is simply grafted onto older beliefs - Dec 25 is very close to the Northern Hemisphere Winter Solstice. There's lots more examples like the symbols of the easter egg and bunny (pagan fertility symbols) - you could fill a book with them. You can accept whatever religion you like, or reject it, or interpret it - all these are equally valid.

Answer 10

Originally Christians didn't celebrate the birthday of Christ. Christmas is actually a pagan celebration of the winter solorance. It was changed and Incorporated into the Catholic Church to attract these people into joining. The rest is history.