Why do you think Christmas is Jesus' birthday? IF you do.?

Answer 1

It's not necessarily
We don't know the exact dates.....or season for that matter..

That date was chosen long ago for one reason, to offer Christians an alternative to the pagan celebrations going on at that time of year

Answer 2

In modern culture, we have designated Christmas as the day to celebrate his birthday. This is not the actual day.
Don't be confused with all the fringe celebrating...such as the tree, the presents, and the festivities. We have created customs and traditions that we've wrapped up into the true meaning. I'm ok with that, as long as the messege isn't lost.

Answer 3

Christmas is not the date of Christ's birth. December 25 is a winter solstice celebration adopted by the Roman Catholic Church in their continued attempts to curry political favor with the Roman Emperors. This festival of Saturnalia was to celebrate the birth of the sungod mithra, whom Constantine worshiped.

The actual birth of Messiah Yeshua is closer to the Biblical fall festival of Trumpets or Rosh Hoshanna of that year. Because of the complexities of the Hebrew Calender, it would not be any set day by our Julian Calender.

In any event, we are told nowhere to celebrate Christ's birth.....or the resurrection for that matter.

Answer 4

I don"t'Christmas is a Side Show,merchants make lots of Money ,Christmas is about Commerce;
I believe Jesus was born on the Day of Atonement, 5. B.C. late September;

Answer 5

My God, the God of the bible is from everlasting to everlasting, the beginning and the ending. He has no beginning so no birth date. Jesus entered a "body" of flesh. The date was around Sept 15th according to a true study of Gods word. John the baptists father was a temple priest. They had specific dates that they served. So we can know when he was there and when he saw the angel telling him john would be born. The bible says Jesus is 6 months younger. Easy math. Also the flocks would not be in the field in th winter. Shepard's aren't that dumb to let them freeze.

Answer 6

I think Jesus fulfills both prophecies of Judaism and types and shadows found within various pagan faiths. A birth of the Son of God on or around the Winter Solstice makes perfect sense to me.

For arguments supporting a Dec. 25 date (or around that time), from a very fine Christian scholar, see Edersheim's THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JESUS THE MESSIAH.

Answer 7

The first evidence of the feast is from Egypt. About A.D. 200, Clement of Alexandria says that certain Egyptian theologians "over curiously" assign, not the year alone, but the day of Christ's birth, placing it on 25 Pachon (20 May) in the twenty-eighth year of Augustus.
[Ideler (Chron., II, 397, n.) thought they did this believing that the ninth month, in which Christ was born, was the ninth of their own calendar.]
Others reached the date of 24 or 25 Pharmuthi (19 or 20 April). With Clement's evidence may be mentioned the "De paschæ computus", written in 243 and falsely ascribed to Cyprian, which places Christ's birth on 28 March, because on that day the material sun was created. But Lupi has shown (Zaccaria, Dissertazioni ecc. del p. A.M. Lupi, Faenza, 1785, p. 219) that there is no month in the year to which respectable authorities have not assigned Christ's birth. Clement, however, also tells us that the Basilidians celebrated the Epiphany, and with it, probably, the Nativity, on 15 or 11 Tybi (10 or 6 January). At any rate this double commemoration became popular, partly because the apparition to the shepherds was considered as one manifestation of Christ's glory, and was added to the greater manifestations celebrated on 6 January; partly because at the baptism-manifestation many codices wrongly give the Divine words as sou ei ho houios mou ho agapetos, ego semeron gegenneka se (Thou art my beloved Son, this day have I begotten thee) in lieu of en soi eudokesa (in thee I am well pleased), read in Luke 3:22.

Answer 8

History indicates the birth of Christ was not December 25 but like most commemorative birthdays, this date is set aside to celebrate the life of Christ.

Answer 9

I dont. I am a Christian but I do not celebrate Christmas as it is a pagan holiday. It is another way that Satan has brought deception into the church. Study the history of Christmas and you will see.

Answer 10

Jesus was likely born in another time of the year other than winter. The timing of "Christmas" is Saturnalia, the evil pagan observance of unbelievers at the time. When Constantine and others kept paganism as their form of belief, and added a few out of context Christian concepts to it (creating his own religion that is not Biblical Christianity), some went along with it.