What part of the Bible shows that Christmas is on December 25?

Question

What book is this information in and if it is a different calendar or date system can someone prove if you convert it to modern calendar it would be on the december 25 or close to this date.

Answer 1

The Bible does not Give a Clear date. but x-mas is pagan and should not be celebrated by true Christians.

Answer 2

"It is unknown exactly when or how December 25 became associated with Jesus' birth. The New Testament does not give a specific date. Several scholars have suggested that Sextus Julius Africanus gave this date in Chronografiai, a now lost reference book for Christians written in AD 221. This date is nine months after the traditional date of the Incarnation (March 25), now celebrated as the Feast of the Annunciation. March 25 was also considered to be the date of the vernal equinox and therefore the creation of Adam. Early Christians believed March 25 was also the date Jesus was crucified. The Christian idea that Jesus was conceived on the same date that he died on the cross is consistent with a Jewish belief that a prophet lived an integral number of years."

Answer 3

Dummuzi (Tammuzi) and later known as Saturnalia was sacrificed on December 25th to renew the sun. (He was in actuality Noah's great-great grandson through Ham and Nimrod and his wife, Semiramis.) So, that's how far back the "christmas" story goes!!!

Check on on Yahoo! Search, "The Two Babylons" by the Reverend Alexander Hislop.
http://philologos.org/__eb-ttb/default.htm

Just look at the part about the Virgin and the Child and the Cross. They go all the way back to Noah almost!

Birthdays are not popular in the bible because on the ONLY 2 birthdays mentioned in the bible, the Baker and John the Baptist (Christs own 1st cousin) died. Jesus birthday is never mentioned, BUT the day of his death IS!

Answer 4

No scripture mentions anything about Jesus' birthday, the Bible tells us to remember his death.

If you take a few moments to research this subject, you will find that Christmas has no roots in true Christianity. Many Bible scholars of various religious denominations acknowledge this. With that in mind, it should not surprise you that in England, Cromwell’s Parliament decreed in 1647 that Christmas be a day of penance and then banned it outright in 1652. Parliament purposely met on December 25 every year from 1644 to 1656. According to historian Penne L. Restad, “ministers who preached on the Nativity risked imprisonment. Churchwardens faced fines for decorating their churches. By law, shops stayed open on Christmas as if it were any regular business day.” Why such drastic measures? Puritan reformers believed that the church should not create traditions that did not exist in the Scriptures. They actively preached and distributed literature denouncing Christmas celebrations.

Similar attitudes were evident in North America. Between the years 1659 and 1681, Christmas was banned in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. According to the law enacted then, Christmas was not to be observed in any form or fashion. Violators were subject to a fine. Not only were Puritans in New England uncomfortable with celebrating Christmas but some groups in the middle colonies were also. Pennsylvania Quakers were as adamant as the Puritans in their view of the celebration. One source says that “shortly after Americans had won their independence, Elizabeth Drinker, a Quaker herself, divided Philadelphians into three categories. There were Quakers, who ‘make no more account of it [Christmas] than another day,’ those who were religious, and the rest who ‘spend it in riot and dissipation.’”

Henry Ward Beecher, a renowned American preacher who was raised in an orthodox Calvinist household, knew little about Christmas until he was 30 years old. “To me Christmas was a foreign day,” wrote Beecher in 1874.

The early Baptist and Congregationalist churches also found no Scriptural grounds for celebrating Christ’s birth. One source notes that it was not until December 25, 1772, that the Baptist Church of Newport [Rhode Island] observed Christmas for the first time. This was approximately 130 years after the founding of the first Baptist church in New England.

If December 25 is not the birthday of Jesus, celebrating that date as his birthday amounts to lying. How can a Christian who loves truth and is commanded to be honest promote falsehood? (Ephesians 4:25) From the date itself to the Santa Claus story, Christmas has become packed with lies. Christians, however, are told at Revelation 22:15 that “everyone liking and carrying on a lie” will end up without the divine blessing of everlasting life.

Then, why do so-called Christians in the West celebrate Christmas? One of the reasons is commercialism, just as it is in your country. I read about a Baptist minister over in the United States who lamented: “If the commercial aspect were removed entirely, most folks would feel that they had not experienced Christmas. But the religious focus could be removed entirely and a large number of people would not notice the difference.”

Answer 5

That is not in the Bible, because the Roman Catholic Church adopted many pagan holidays, and adapted them to the Christian traditions. Martin Luther kept many of those traditions during the rise of Protestantism, because it pleased him and the people of his time.

Yule and Christmas are very similar. Read below:

At Yule, (December 20-23) the Goddess gives birth to her son, (the God, who is symbolized by the sun). His birth brings hope and the promise of the coming summer. Yule is a remnant of older rituals which hurried the end of winter and the coming of spring.

The Roman Church removed the Goddess and put Mary in Her place; then removed the son of the Goddess (the God), and placed Jesus in His place. And since pagans conducted the celebration between December 20 and 23, the Church declared December 25 as the birth of Jesus.

I do not imply that the birth of Jesus didn't happen, because it did happen. But since winter in Israel on the year 4 A.D was very cold (Christ was not born in the year "0" C.E..), it is highly unlikely that he was born during the winter, but in the spring, when the weather is more confortable for travel. Remember that Joseph and Mary were traveling to Joseph's home town because of the census. And in those days, the Census was held in between mid March and mid April.

Then, we can safely assume that Christ was born during the spring of the year 4 C.E., not in December as its traditionally celebrated. But hey, the most important thing is that if you are a Christian, you celebrate Jesus' birth.

I had to come to ad this last paragraph because I thought my answer was too long, but now that I saw the one who answered before me, I find my answer quite small.

Answer 6

It doesn't. It was originally the date a pagan celebration. I believe when the Roman Emperor Constantine declared Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire they just switched it to celebrate the birth of Jesus instead. Historians now estimate the actual birth event to have been sometime during spring. Not that the date really matters.

Answer 7

It's not in the bible.
The date Dec. 25 was chosen by the early church to coincide with the pagan festival Yule. Since they were bringing a radical new set of beliefs to the people (Only one God!?!) they wanted to take advantage of existing ritual gatherings to help ease the transition.

Answer 8

It's not, just when the Christians conquered people on their crusading sprees, they added the beliefs of the people they conquered to thier own beliefs. Christmas is actually supposed to be some time in March.

Answer 9

It was the assumption of a Pagan holiday by Christians in protest of the lifestyle led by those outside of their religion.

Nice try though sweetie.

Answer 10

It isn't. This is because Christmas is not a Christian holiday. It is a pagan tradition.