Was Jesus born 6 days bc?

Question

If jesus was bnorn on 25th December, why dont we celebrate the new year on this day?

Answer 1

no silly Jesus was not born of the 25 Dec, that day was chosen as it was the Pagan winter solstice. The church usurped it, like every other Pagan ritual, to make Christianity more appealing to the Pagans

Answer 2

The approximate date of Jesus' birth was first 'guessed' at by monks early in the 5th century. By the 9th century, there were various schools of though about when Jesus was supposed to have lived, based on varying astronomical ideas about the passed of a significant comet that could have accounted for the 'star over Bethlehem' of Matthew's Gospel. By the 12th Century, when the Vatican Observatory, run by the Ignatian order, had some degree of accuracy and certainty regarding this comet, the Gregorian Calendar was standardised, giving for the first time a 354 day year, with leap years of 355 days every 4 years, broken down into 12 months.

The day of the year of Jesus' birth was never agreed from a scientific basis, and no Christian claims to know exactly when he was born, so this is largely irrelevant. It is not even celebrated on the same day in every country. Some countries celebrate Dec 24th, others the 25th. Others still a fortnight later in early January.

It is true that there was already a winter festival in England when the Christians arrived in the 4th century. Being told they were not to honour their previous deities would have posed much more of a problem to uncivilised and uneducated people if the festival had not been replaced by something equally exciting, so just swapping the name, theme and practices of the day seemed preferable to cancelling the only break in the months of darkness that winter was for them.

Seems very logical to me. Don't know why people see it as so extraordinary.

Answer 3

Nobody know the date Jesus was born and the 25th was adopted as it was already a pagan festival. Also he could not have been born in the year 0000 for two reasons there was no such year as we went from 1 BC to 1 AD. He could not have been born in 1 AD or 1 BC for that matter because King Herod who was supposed to have told the wise men to come and tell him where Jesus was had been dead 4 years by 1 AD so if Jesus was born as the bible says then it must have been in 4 BC or earlier. As matter of interest there is no record of any census being ordered by the Romans which would have required Joseph to go to Bethlehem.

Answer 4

He wasn't born on December 25th, under my research. The Iglesia Catholica Apostolica Romana(not to be confused with Christianity.)"decided" to make it 12/25 because that is the birthday of Mithra, The Iranian Sun Deity. They did this to recruit more Pagans, specifically the Middle-Easterners, into their church. In my observation, it might probably be the same reason why they built gargoyles and the like.

On a side note, I'd like to remind other posters on Yahoo! that "Catholicism is different from Christianity"; some people are Christians yet are NOT Catholic. Some "Christian" churches don't follow the Holy See at all. Some didn't actually branch off from Catholicism. Some actually branched from Judaism. So basically, anything done or believed by the Holy See, doesn't represent Christianity. The Catholicism=Christianity theory is a hoax used to berate Christianity whenever the Holy See is criticized.

Answer 5

Jesus was not born on Decemger 25. Historians think that he may have been born in the summer time.

Christmas is traditionally celebrated on December 25. It is preceded by Christmas Eve and in some countries is followed by Boxing Day. Some Eastern Orthodox Churches celebrate Christmas on January 7, which corresponds to December 25 of the Julian calendar. These dates are merely traditional and neither is thought to be the actual birthdate of Jesus.

Answer 6

Jesus was born when the shepherds were out in the fields at night with their sheep. This only happens in the spring. I have confirmed this after speaking to people from that region of the world.

And there is no year zero. There's a 1 BC and a 1 AD, but the zero is supposed to be a moment, not an entire year.

And our calendars have been adjusted many times, so there's no telling how much actual time has passed.

Answer 7

Jesus wasnt born in 0 either he was born in 6 BC [although it obviously wasn't BC then!!] because they only had 10 months per calendar and therefore their years are different. 25th December is used as Jesus was seen as the 'Son of God' play with Son and get Sun and you get the pagan holiday which was the Winter Solstice which celebrated winters inability to prevent the renewal of life, and Jesus was seen as a breath of new life as he died to save so many....
Personally [speaking as a Christian speaking to the answerer who said "so ram that Christians" it doesnt bother me that it was a pagan holiday, why would it? It was the Pope [Pope Julius 1] that chose it so....

Answer 8

According to our calendar, I estimate that Jesus was born in late May or early June 3 BC. The -2.5 year error is not too bad considering Anno Domini was only invented by a man called 'Dennis the Short' in AD 532. (Seriously, check it yourself.)

To answer your other question, 25th December was new years day at one time. We just can't control integers and integer arithmetic, like spelling, is beyond human ken ;(

Answer 9

The 25th of December was originally a Pagan festival that the Catholics took over with their own mythology.
Mind you they did that with a lot of Pagan festivals, the idea being "You've been celebrating something on this date, now you can keep celebrating but think of it in terms of Jesus and his birth."

Answer 10

Theologians believe Jesus was not born on Dec 25 at all. That date was just set by the early church. Anyway the Jewish calender was being followed at the time too. Check it out with search engine.