Was Jesus really born on December 25 or Is this holiday based on a pagan holiday celebrating winter?

Answer 1

We celebrate the pagan holiday celebrating winter. Jesus was born in march around Easters. Christianity is an evolved form of paganism. Sunday (the day of church) is the day pagan's used to worship the sun. Even the image of Jesus was stolen from Zeus.

Answer 2

No Jesus was not born on December 25th. The date was chosen to allow Pagan converts to celebrate Satunalia which began around the day of the Winter Solstice, but it was set off a few days to make it look like something other than a direct steal.

Another factor was that several local Gods had birthdays around this time of year. The specific correspondence was with the birthday of the God Mithras, a very popular Roman deity especially worshipped by Roman soldiers. Mithras was born in a cave on this day, with a star overhead and a virgin for a mother.

The "Madonna and Child" image was a direct steal from the Goddess Isis and her child Horus, and all of the favored symbols of the season are Pagan.

Red is the color of animal blood and therefore of animal life. Green is the evergreen. Gold is the color of the sun returning to overcome the darkness. The Yule log is the remains of the year's may pole, and burning it is a symbol of light and regeneration from sacrifice. Giving gifts at this time as a Saturnalia custom in Rome. Old traditions such as Mummers and morris dancers and the "Hunting of the Wren" are all symbols of the fervent hope fot the return of Spring. Wassail is a Pagan drink.

Nope, not one bit of it is the slightest bit Christian.

Answer 3

There have been many theories as to when Jesus was actually born, but it's pretty much agreed that 25 December was not it. As Christianity spread, the church fathers decided that adopting some pagan customs and giving them new meanings would be the most efficient way to gain converts. So, adapting the assorted festivals that celebrate of return of the sun (Saturnalia among them) to commemorate the birth of Christ (often referred to as the Light of the World) was a logical step. Actually, Easter is the more important festival, but there could be no Crucifixion without a birth, so it was an educational tool, as well.

Answer 4

I know the right answer!!!

December 25th was a date the Pope decided we would celebrate Christ's birthday because we didn't actually know his date of birth. It has nothing to do with us being "wrong', and non-christians can prove it. We know we were wrong. The Pope chose this day because it coincided with a Roman festival that took place every year. He thought since they were already celebrating in Rome, that would be the time of year we'd celebrate Christ. Therefore, it is not actually a Pagan holiday either. Christians really deliberately chose this day to celebrate Christ.

Now, as for his real birthday, scholars have now pinpointed an exact date. And, no, we don't know for 100% certain that it is the exact date, but this is the date that 99% of religious scholars agree on. The exact date is April 17, 6 B.C. Yes, Before Christ. Which would mean that this year should technically be 2012 A.D. Christ was 36 years old when he died and ascended to Heaven.

Answer 5

Christmas was based on a pagan holiday, however i strongly believe that if Christians didn't take this day to celebrate the birth of their savior that it would no longer be a holiday. Christmas is no longer the holiday it was set out to be however long ago. we celebrate it now because Christians wish to honor their Lord. if this holiday was meant to celebrate anything else it would be probably about as celebrated as labor day is. not the huge phenomenon it is today. God is the reason it has become what it is, no more no less.

Answer 6

Good catch.

It was a way to bring the Pagans of Europe into the Catholic church by scheduling or making new festivals to coincide with Pagan holidays.

Easter Resurection story blends with fertility festival for coming growth in the planting times

Halloween= Celebrated the harvest time associating the death of plantlife with the people who had died the previous year. Catholic ritual celebrates the dead saints the following day.

Christmas=A time of gifting among the Pagan was blended by using the gifting at Jesus' birth.

And the Roman tax periods and census were usually in April (like today) last I heard.

Answer 7

Judging by the descriptions of the circumstances surrounding his birth, the fictional character Jesus was supposed to have been born in the late spring or early summer.

The date of December 25th was chosen by some Scythian monk named Dionysius Exiguus, with, no doubt, the same level of accuracy as displayed by Bishop Ussher when he calculated that the earth was created on October 23th, 4004 BC, regardless of the actual data. But, that's religion for you.

FYI, the earth is actually some 4.5 billion years old, and the Catholic church simply co-opted the existing pagan celebrations of Winterset and Saturnalia.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Nah, he wasn't probably really born on the 25th, but that is not the point. It is still the day many celebrate his birth, and rejoice, and celebrate happiness, and family, and friends! It is time to reflect on life, and the love around us, and the love we can share. The date, is just tradition, and i don't care if it coincides with anything pagan, etc. I am not a pagan, and am not threatened by that fact, I just enjoy the wonderful Christmas season. Merry Christmas!

Answer 10

You are pretty close because CHRISTMAS IS LIKE SANTA CLAUS

You know the Fatman is a fake and a fat, white lie, but you go along with it anyway, as you deceive the kids and make them future liars to their own kids.

The Dictionary of the Bible says that: By the 5th. Century, the Church (of Rome) had concerned itself enough to have set December 25 as the date of Jesus’ birth. This had been the date of the Festival of the Sun God Zeus and to the Christians a greater light was come, Jesus Christ, the true light of the World.

Fact is - the Sun God is Zeus, and Jesus is really Jezeus, and the Romans worshipped Zeus, and you can see Barnabas being called Zeus by the Priests of Zeus in the Acts of the Apostles 14:12-13, in the Bible. Mithra was another son of Zeus, but Je-Zeus was Zeus come down as his own son, which made him strictly a Roman God.

Sunday is also the day that was set aside for worship of the Sun God (Zeus) by the Romans.

The Winter Solstice gives us the shortest day in the year, December 22, as the birth of the new Sun, so Rome shifted it to the 25 December in order to celebrate the Feast of the Circumcision eight days later, on 1 January, in accepting Jezeus Christos as the Living God of the Sun risen from the dead.

Zeus and the Fathers of Christianity did not know there was a Southern Hemisphere that did not share the Sun God Zeus or his four seasons, or his twelve disciples or twelve months of the year with the Northern Hemisphere, and it is for this reason that Australia celebrates Christmas twice each year, with the White Christmas falling in June but is called Christmas in July since they know it is a lie.

So Christmas and Christianity were as ignorant of the nature of the Planet as was Santa Claus of the South Pole, and just as the Pope was afraid that Christopher Columbus might fall off the flat Planet in his attempt to reach India traveling westwards, so were Santa Claus and Zeus afraid to go below the Planet and into the Fires of Hell.

When Pope John Paul ii declared the Shroud of Turin a medieval fake after having it scientifically carbon-dated in 1988, he failed to point out that the Bible describes the use of two shrouds, with one for the head and another for the “body” of the 100 lbs of aloes and myrrh, the other perfect hoax.

TRY SOME HONESTY THIS YEAR.
EXPOSE THE FRAUD OF SANTA THE UNHOLY.

BRING THE TRUTH OF THE MESSIAH FROM THE QURAN TO LIGHT SO THAT MEN WHO ARE BORN BLIND MIGHT SEE THAT THE ONE TRUE GOD CAN HAVE NO SON OR NO PARTNER
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HE IS ONE, HE ALWAYS WAS, HE IS, AND HE ALWAYS WILL BE!

PEACE ON EARTH AND GOODWILL TO ALL OF HUMANITY!