2006-12-24 19:13:56 · 34 answers · asked by ABARAM 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
the 25th date of december is not mentioned as being the actual date of christ`s birth.
it was celebrated by the first christians in the 25th of december as a remembering of this great and important event. initially, it was a pagan celebration of the god of sun or of the crops, if i remember correctly.
the first calendar was julius`. this is kept still in one of the countries of europe, especially the russians, who are still in the old rite of orthodoxy.
the constantinian calendar is a little forward than the julius` one, i think with aproximately 2 weeks. and this type of calendar is almost in all countries, and keeping this set of dates we celebrate christmas today.
the arabs and the jews have their own special type of calendar, the jews are keeping the dates that were mentioned a few times in the bible and the arabs keep the months and dates strictly from the lunar fazes.
so when the christian religion became oficial, the church tried to show it all over the world, because they wanted to have as much control as possible over the population. that`s why the celebration of christmas was set on 25th december just over that pagan ritual, so that the people could see that christianity is more interesting than other rituals. this control is the reason for the cruciads, and the religious wars of the conquistadores... many crimes and many died in the name of christ.. and some were innocent.. isn`t that a little cruel? did HE wanted like that? i don`t think so....
2006-12-24 20:35:26 · answer #1 · answered by Dora 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
A date for the birth of Jesus Christ is apparently not mentioned in the Holy Bible.
The reason we celebrate the birth of Jesus on the 25th December is because there was an already existing festival at about the same time. In the Roman world, (most of Europe) this would have been the a feast for Baccus (or some such). In northern Germanic Europe, we would have the Nordic God 'Wodin'. The Christmas Tree and the Yull log all come from pagan relgious beliefs. In fact most of what we do at Christmas has very little to do with Christianity - so much so that in the 17th century the Lord Protector of England, Oliver Cromwell actually banned Christmas altogether. Christmas got reinstated around c1660s.
It is very unlikley that the Romans would have held a cencus in the middle of winter, when travel would have been near impossible, even with good Roman roads.
The story of the birth of Jesus is very largely a made up one and one which sits on an already existing religion. What we're really celebrating is the return of the Sun god, it being now a period of darkness and a period when the days will start to grow longer.
It gets even worse - because at Easter we're really celebrating the arrival of the Anglo Saxon goddess Estera (Easter) who arrives in the form of a hare (the Easter Bunny). Estera is first seen in the form of an egg, (The Easter Egg). When she is born (the March Hare) she is hunted and killed by the dogs. Its all mixed up with the pagan belief in the Rites of Spring - when the sap rises etc and the blossom appears on the trees which will in the late summer bear fruit - new birth. In the story of Jesus, he must go through a rebirth, which is exactly what happens, he rises from the dead on the third day etc.
2006-12-24 19:48:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
the main necessary concentration of the Bible isnt to be a biographical source approximately Jesus, yet extremely His teachings. Dec. 25 became as quickly as chosen since the on the time after His beginning up there have been pagan holidays around that element. So Christians could have relaxing the Christmas on December 25 around the time of those pagan holidays to have the skill to evangelise the be attentive to God and allow pagans to come again to be Christian. Later wen the invention of the leap-12 months occured and it became as quickly as calculated how an prolonged time were to be presented on with the addition of a few days the eastern Orthodox church all began to have an excellent time on Jan. 7 which became Dec. 25 with the greater days introduced on.
2016-10-28 08:08:01 · answer #3 · answered by englin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have no idea mate, the 25th Dec probably didn't even exist back then, but what the 25th is supposed to be "apparently" is the birth of the Greek sun god Mithras. So as par usual it's another date stolen from another faith just the same as the Christians stole everything from paganism and tried to pass it all off as there own. I lay no blame upon the Christians of today as they know no different it's the fore fathers, and think of this, if it wasn't for paganism the very faith the Christians condemn, there church will not be standing today.
2006-12-28 08:43:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It does not mention that Jesus was born on 25th of Dec. Julius 1st declared that this would be the date to celebrate the birth of Jesus.It was a pagan tradition taken over by Christians.Disciples never celebrated the birthday of Jesus.
2006-12-24 19:26:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
The Bible doesn't give a birthdate. Dec. 25th was the Roman (pagan) festival of Saturnalia. Check out 'How December 25th became Christmas': http://www.noelnoelnoel.com/trad/dec25.html
You've gotta miss the whole Saturnalia thing, by the way, the festival lasted an entire week rather than a single day.
How could you not find this info with a Google search, by the way? There must be 100k websites with the above name?
2006-12-24 19:28:31 · answer #6 · answered by DrD 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It isn't, the date is symbolic, His date of birth isn't truly known as far as I know, but the Early Church chose to celebrate His birth and had to chose a date. It's shortly after the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year. This means that at Christmas the days have just started to get longer, so there is a little more light, even if not noticeable yet. This is symbolic of the beginning if the light that Jesus would bring to the world.
2006-12-26 23:13:37 · answer #7 · answered by scattycat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It does not give a date, that date was a roman catholic creation to coincide with winter solstice dec 25 to jan 6 (a pagen celebration.) With the creation of a birthdate plus the other 11 days at which was the time the wise men came to bethlahem
the pagen converts in northern europe and britan could have their winter celebration and still be RC converts.
Best calculations on Jesus' Bday would be mid April
2006-12-24 19:21:09 · answer #8 · answered by chazzn101 4 · 6⤊ 0⤋
It isn't. The exact date of Jesus' birth is not mentioned. Evidence we have though points to it being around september, possibly earlier. 25th December was chosen as the day to celebrate his birth because it was close to the pagan festivals of Yule and Saturnalia from which most of todays so called christmas traditions are taken.
2006-12-26 07:36:43 · answer #9 · answered by serephina 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nowhere in the bible does it mention when he was born. Researchers have determined that he was born sometime in April. The reason why Christians celebrate his birth on December 25 is because it was the Saturnalia feast in ancient Rome, and in order to convert the Pagans, they used the Pagans holidays as their own. It was easier that way by letting them continue to celebrate their holidays and just say they were worshiping something else.
2006-12-24 19:29:24 · answer #10 · answered by Becca 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋