Who came up with christmas?

Question

In the Bible, it says NO WHERE that Jesus was born on December 25. Some one came up with that!

Answer 1

You're right, Jesus was actually born in April. the Victorian era was when Christmas was born. They started with bringing in fresh trees to their homes, then decorated them. Later centuries brought retailing into the picture. It's all about retailers closing out their sales quarters on a good or bad note.
There was an interesting documentary on it on the History Channel in December. If you wanted to purchase it, go to www.historychannel.com. Otherwise, you could wikipedia it.

Answer 2

According to Roman records, Jesus would have been born in June or July and about 4 years earlier than he was said to (which did not coincide with the meteor). Christmas was created by a bishop in medieval Europe in order to squash the Celts' celebration of Yule, the renewed birth of the sun and the return of the light. (No, the obvious wordplay is not lost on us.) The pagans would celebrate for 12 days (the 12 days of Christmas?!) starting at about December 21 and continuing into the first couple days of January (not the new year in the Celts culture). The people would not give up their celebrations that kept the year moving and broke up the monotony of the long winter, desperate for converts, the Church gave the mad bishop permission to plunk Christmas on top of Yule and to build churches on worship sites. Candlemas (a lesser known Christian holiday) was placed on top of the frist celebration of spring and the last celebration of winter Imbolc. The celebration of Christ's death (Easter) was placed on top of Ostara/Eostre, a spring celebration (that's where the bunnies and eggs come from). Many saint's days were stuffed onto other holidays.
Early Christians celebrated the old Jewish holidays including teh Sabbath and Passover etc. Over time, the Church (the Catholic Church before protestantism) invented holidays and the like to move through the year and keep time for the followers whose lives were full of hard toil that centered on working the land. Pagan holidays follow the seasons and the work on a farm and the Church could hardly compete.

Answer 3

The holiday, 'Christmas', is when we 'celebrate' Jesus's birth, but most people know that December 25th wasn't the 'actual day' Jesus was born (which is never stated 'in the Bible') ... and that 'date' was actually chosen by the fathers (founders) of the Christian religion at 'around the same time' as the pagan celebrations of 'Yule' (possibly 'druids' celebrating trees and the 'return of the sun' to the world at the winter solstice) and other similar 'holidays' ... this wasn't so much to 'cover over' those oldest celebrations, but was done to put certain celebrations, especially Christian celebrations at 'approximately the same time of year' as the older pagan celebrations both because it made it slightly easier for the 'pagans' who had converted to remember the 'holidays' but also because both the 'winter solstice' and the 'spring equinox' represent very important 'things' in our life ... that 'new life' returns after the darkest day' (winter) and that 'wonderful life' comes after 'sprouting' (spring). No one person 'came up' with these dates, they were actually 'argued over and decided on' by all of the 'bishops' of the early church at a 'convocation' called by the 'pope' to decide these and many other 'religious theological questions.'

Answer 4

Christmas was implemented by Constantine because he had a religious problem. On one side, he had Pagans that were prominent in Rome and the other, he had Christians. Early Christians never celebrated Jesus' Christ birthday. Remember, Jesus said to only celebrate his death and his last meal, not his birthday.

Saturnalia, a Roman feast celebrated in mid-December, provided the model for many of the merry-making customs of Christmas. Pagans celebrated their pagan gods and Christians worshiped God and this created a friction. So, in order to calm the masses, Constantine implemented Christ and Pagans together and formed Christmas.

Note* Christ died in April. His ministry lasted 3 1/2 yrs. He was 33 1/2 years old when he died. Count 6 months from that point and you will see around the time he was born! :-)

Answer 5

The truth is, Jesus was not born in the winter.

The massive holiday we know now as "Christmas" is celebrated on or near the winter solstice.

Back in the day, the prevailing religion was paganism. When the future "Catholic Church" convened to decide how to convert the masses to Christianity, they decided that the best approach was to gloss Jesus over the Winter solstice celebrations.

In Rome, Mithra was the one that represented the return of the light from winter. How fitting to put Jesus there, since he was a manifestation of the "sun god" in pagan times.

The Christmas tree was a pagan device representing eternal life, and the lights we decorate it with represent the return of the light (German).The yule log, also pagan (Celtic). Santa Claus, pagan origins (Celtic). The wreath, pagan. Flying reindeer (Native snow dwellers), pagan. Mistletoe, pagan (Irish).

The belief is that Jesus was actually born in the summer. Some say August or September, others say June.

Let's face it folks, Christmas, Easter, Halloween and many other lesser holidays all come from pagan origins...

Answer 6

The Romans would persecute Christians cerca 200-300ad. The winter solstice and Mithra were in the last week of Dec. with Dec. 25 of the birth of their Pagan God/Savior.
Christians wanted to be able to celebrate the Eucharist, but if they did it during the passover season, then they would be outed. So they adapted the rituals of the Pagans to blend in and be inconspicuous. Years later, when The Romans embraced Christianity, they made it official that that date would be used for the celebration of Christ, and it all went down hill from there, with pagans converting to Christianity and keeping their traditions of tree decorating, and yule, Easter eggs, bunnies, etc. Because well, the idea of the savior was the same, why not keep the same type of celebrations, just with a different savior.

Answer 7

Actually it was a Pope at a time when Scandinavia was becoming Christian. They had the Winter Solstice festivities and out of practicality, to make Christ more palatable, the particular Pope (I forget his name) ordered the birth of Christ to be celebrated on Dec 25. That way, people would party according to custom, but under the mantle of Christendom. A device of the same sort was used with the building of churches, whose site of prime choice would be previous pagan temples, or holy places.

Some stuff is just unbelievable, isn't it?

Answer 8

December 25 was borrowed from the Mithrans.

It is the winter solstice cerebration when God sends a new sun to warm the earth and renew life.

Get it? son/sun of God.

This was by imperial proclamation of the emperor Constantine in the early teens of the thirds century.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 9

Nobody knows when Jesus was born. It does not state anywhere in the Bible when he was born. We can assume one season to another, but it does not say the date at all.

Answer 10

I think it was whoever originally owned Claymation Studios. As you already know we were first made out of clay. No wonder why that show; Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer seems so familiar and yet so sincere. Egypt must have been the North Pole at one time. Thank-you for opening our eyes.