how do we know that jesus was born on 25 december?

Answer 1

We don't!

The early Christian Church chose December 25 to overshadow the pagan Winter Solstice celebrations. Many Christian holidays were set to overshadow a pagan holiday.

The Feast of the Annunciation (Angel Gabriel tells Mary she is pregnant) is on March 25. People would be scratching their their heads if Mary "blossomed" and delivered in 6 days. So this feast was moved back 9 months to be "politically correct."

Answer 2

For many people throughout the world, the Christmas season is the happiest and busiest time of the year. Millions of believers in Christ celebrate December 25th as a special religious holiday because they believe it marks the date of Christ's birth. The Bible does not give us the date of the birth of Jesus! The Bible gives two accounts of the birth of Jesus. They are found in Matthew 1 and 2 and Luke 2. No mention is made of the date His death made possible the forgiveness of our sins. His resurrection makes possible our victory over death. The Lord's Supper is to "show the Lord's death till he come" (I Corinthians 11:26). The only day in any way set aside for special religious observance in the New Testament is the Lord's day, Sunday, the first day of the week (Acts 20:7;1 Corinthians 16:2; Revelation 1:10); But We celebrate this day as a way of thanking God for his beautiful gift of Jesus Christ; you can celebrate this concept if you wish.

Answer 3

Ray J it does NOT say so in the Bible.

We don't know the date Jesus was born, but we celebrate Christmas on the 25th December from ancient time.

Back then it was easier to "convert" (using inverted commas, as most "converts" flip-flopped to suit their whims) pagans by getting your festivals to coincide with theirs, and Christmas was chosen to coincide with the Mid-Winter's feast. Many of the Mid-Winter traditions still survive, including the Christmas Tree - a fir tree was an evergreen, and an evergreen tree was used to symbolise the renewing of the seasons and plant life.

Heck, some cultures celebrate Christmas at different times of the year.

Answer 4

He wasn't.
If you read the Bible and do the math, he was actually born in the spring time.
The Catholic church moved his birthday to Dec to off set some pagan holiday that's close to it. I'm not sure, but I think it might have been the winter solstice that was celebrated at that time and the church wanted to take attention away from it, so they said that Jesus was born then.

Answer 5

He wasn't, most biblical scholars and historians would agree either in spring or autumn. 25th Dec was the last day of pagan solstice worship of Saturnalia.
Much pagan echoes of Christmas still exist, mistletoe; holly and ivy; yule logs.
The light of truth of the Christ is tainted with the darkness of pagan worship. An abomination in God's eyes.
Some christians with good conscious cannot celebrate Christmas. Christ cannot have a sharing of a day that was made for false worship.

Answer 6

he wasn't. Scientists have studied the placement of the north star in comparison to where Jesus was born and determined he was actually born in June.

I'll let someone else fill you in on how modern x-mas is basically a pagan holiday.

Answer 7

We do know he wasnt born on december 25, that date was chosen to detract people from celebrating the Roman festiable of lights, where we get christmas lights from, history tells us that the census was held in the spring, rember thats why Joe & Mary went to Bethlaham to be counted.

Answer 8

We don't know! 25th of December is an arbitrary date for the season that Jesus was born in (it was winter).

Answer 9

I don't, and He probably wasn't, but its a day set aside to celebrate His birth, when ever it was.

Answer 10

IT was decided in the 5th century to CELEBRATE J.Cs birth on the 25th .No-one said it was his b......y birthday.