I believe baby jesus was born in April...why do we celebrate Dec. 25th?

Question

You think we would and should get this historical date correct...after all he does help decide if we burn in hell or not. What say you?

Answer 1

Muslims believe he was born in the summer.

Answer 2

Only those who do not question anything believe Jesus birthday is Dec. 25th. Others just accept it for the fun. Has anyone actually bothered to question how Jesus feels about any of this? If so, why did he never celebrate his own birth? He taught his disciples and they taught many others. Why did none of these celebrate his birth for more than 200 years after his death? The Bible does make clear God's pure worship is never to be polluted with pagan false worship. As Ephesians 5:10-11 plainly says, to make sure of what is acceptable and quit sharing in works belonging to darkness. The date of December 25th is from pagan Roman religion. It is both a celebration of the Roman god of agriculture and the god of the sun worship. Both occurred on December 25th. Everything else connected with the holiday is also from pagan origins. Do you think drunken parties giving wrapped gifts happen because of Christmas? No. They are part of those Roman gods festivals. If we carefully examine the Bible records, we find Jesus was about 6 months younger than his cousin, John the Baptist. This would put his birth sometime about September, when shepherds would be outside with their sheep. Though the Bible is clear about many things that are important for Christian followers of the true God, the date as well as instructions to celebrate Jesus' birth is not there.

Answer 3

Dec 25th is around the time of the celebration of the Winter Solstice in many cultures. Christ was born in the spring. Joseph and Mary went to Jerusalem every year for Passover (Luke 2:41). They would have come from Nazareth for the Passover and then gone from Jerusalem to Bethlehem to be taxed and await the birth of Christ. Additionally, the shepherds are stated as being in the fields with their sheep at night. December is the rainy season in Judea and the shepherds would not be in the fields at night. They would be in the fields, however, in the spring in order to take care of the new lambs being born, hence another similitude of Christ being the Lamb of God.

Constantine simply chose to celebrate (or recognize) the birth of Christ at that time to facilitate the spread of Christianity. I use the term recognize, because Christmas as we know it, wasn't widely celebrated as we have become accustomed until well after the renaissance, and even then not like we do today until the 1800's.

One thing to note, regarding this day, is that the Winter Solstice was celebrated as the triumph of light over darkness, particularly by the ancient Persians which would have still maintained a cultural influence in Turkey at that time. The light was, in some cultures (including the Persian), the recognition that the Messiah (the light) would come to forever light his people. That being the case, this was a perfectly acceptable day to recognize the birth of the Light.

Answer 4

From historical evidence of when the Romans called for the census in Judea Christ was born in early March in the year 7 BC (interesting even the modern calender is off by years). At this time there was a superior conjunction between Jupiter and Saturn that would account for the "star of Bethlehem". Astrologically this conjunction also indicates the birth of a King of which the wise men (astrologers from the East) would have been able to predict.

Answer 5

Christmas is not a "biblical" holiday, it's nice to celebreate Jesus's birth, but it really isn't a Christian requirement, so it doesn't really matter what day we want to celebrate it. Also, although many people think He was born in the spring, I don't know if anyone is sure and it's better to celebrate His birth on A day than no day just because you don't know. Many people probably wouldn't want Christmas to be too close to Easter too. Or maybe they would like to save the best for last and have the biggest holiday near the end of the year.

Answer 6

No one knows exactly when Jesus was born. The christians wanted a day to celebrate and the whoreshippers of Saturn already were taking off the 25th of December for their rituals so the christians were told they could have the same day off because they didn't want them taking a separate day off.

Answer 7

Because the catholic church gained Dominate Power on earth, and delcared that the Mass of christ would be celebrated on Dec 25 in the 3rd century, maybe it was the 6th century, i forget.

Also the fact that pagan holidays were practiced in the same season many people wanted to replace the pagan holiday with the Righteousness of the name of jesus.

Answer 8

The emperor Constantine commanded the Christians to hold their services on Sun-day, and to commemorate the birth of their savior on December 25 - the birthday of Mithra.

It has been doe this way ever since.

No one burns in hell. This is against what Jesus taught. In fact it is the exact opposite. You need to read the parable of the prodigal son.

love and blessings Don

Answer 9

It is a symbolic date. It coincided with a Roman Holiday that included gift giving and drinking and was anything but religious. This time was picked to avoid persecution by the early believers so they could celebrate pretty much undetected by the powers that be at the time.

Answer 10

It would be god idea to read the Davinci code....it should answer this and many more of you questions...

It is because the date was decided to replace an earlier pagan festival....Its all Constantine's doing...
There is a sect of cristians that do celebrate the birth of christ march-april time..not in december for sure

Answer 11

All seem to acknowledge that the 25th was chosen because of the pagan Saturnalia festival and so on. Given that, however, some say it’s not important what day he was born. Others say Jesus doesn’t care. Still others say it doesn’t matter on what day it is celebrated.

The implication is that Jesus doesn’t care if we celebrate his birth on the day of a pagan festival, he doesn’t care if we associate his birth and life with that of his enemy. I ask you, how would we really feel if everybody we knew decided to celebrate our birthday on the festival day of our enemy and then tell us it doesn’t matter – it’s the thought that counts? How would a wife feel if her husband decided to celebrate their wedding anniversary on the date he met his ex-girlfriend? How would a husband feel if his wife decided to celebrate their wedding anniversary on the day she married her ex-husband? Do we think either of those spouses would feel honored?

Hannah