2007-10-30 08:20:12 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
A lot of people say this, but it's not....here's why.
Christmas is December 25th. The Winter solstice is on the 22ND.
Although we do use things like the Christmas tree which came from pagan traditions, the Christmas tree is not the main thing on the holiday.
It's important to remember the reason why we do this. For Christ...although we use some pagan traditions, which is not an offense to anyone, we did not steal their holiday like some claim.
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About what paperback said...if you would read something besides the bible and wouldn't just say what you heard, you would know that sheep lamb between January and March...not the middle of the summer. Of course this could just be that I am an ag major.
2007-10-30 08:25:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
It is a pagan holiday. When they were converting the pagans and trying to merge the religion they incorporated alot of pagan practices. According to scholars Jesus was born during a warmer time it could not have been December. They used the fact that there were shepherd's laying in the field. The shepherd's would have been in a make-shift hut during the December month and would not have been able to see the star that told of Jesus's birth.
2007-10-30 08:33:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was not born on December 25th.
If when Jesus was born, shepherds were out with their flocks then it would have to be for the latest October.
In that part of the world by December the weather would be too terrible and livestock are kept indoors at that time.
Do some research on it. Google December 25th and Origins of Christmas.
2007-10-30 08:26:14 · answer #3 · answered by pixie_pagan 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was probably born in the spring; the Bible talks about the shepherds being out watching their sheep at night, this would not be so in the winter. December 25 was actually the day that the birthday of some Roman "baby god" (can't remember his name, sorry) was celebrated and it was adopted by the Roman Catholic church to get people to stop worshiping the baby god's birthday and start associating it with Jesus. There is actually no mention of anyone's birthday being celebrated in the Bible. Birthday celebrations are throw backs to Roman pagan customs, where a person would offer gifts to their patron god on their birthday.
2007-10-30 08:32:43 · answer #4 · answered by bainaashanti 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He was not born then. Read your Bible and see he was born in warm weather, not the winter soltice. Christians borrowed many things from earlier cultures. There were many winter soltice festivals, particularly the Roman Saturnalia. No one knew the exact date or even year of Jesus' birth, so some Christians decided to celebrate it on an old pagan festival day.
2007-10-30 08:26:38 · answer #5 · answered by miyuki & kyojin 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Christmas is NOT the day Jesus was born, and all Christians know that.
It is simply the day that Christians celebrate his birth. Christmas means "Christ-Mass," and it is NOT a pagan holiday, although some pagan holidays fell right around the same time.
2007-10-30 08:23:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
He wasn't, Christians later decided to celebrate Jesus' birthday on the already established Pagan holiday, and put their own meaning and name to it. There is actually evidence, from your own scriptures no less, that if Jesus truly did exist there is no way he could have been born in December.
2007-10-30 08:23:21 · answer #7 · answered by Jett 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
He was not born in December. Nowhere in the Bible does it say that Jesus was born on December 25. That date was chosen as the birthday of Jesus by the Roman Catholic Church in their effort to appease the pagan Romans who celebrated the false god of Saturnalia on the same day.
That is one of the reasons why most religions who profess to be Christian are not really Christian.
Scripturally, Jesus was born late October/early November.
Also, Jesus never told his disciples to celebrate his birthday. In fact, he told them to remember his death. Christians do not celebrate birthdays because of their pagan origins. (Ecclesiastes 7:1)
2007-10-30 08:33:01 · answer #8 · answered by johnusmaximus1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, He wasn't. He was born sometime in the summer because the shepherds wouldn't have been caught dead with their sheep outside in the middle of winter. And also, the church's choice of Dec. 25 was intentional. Instead of Christianizing a pagan festival, the church established a rival celebration.
2007-10-30 08:27:33 · answer #9 · answered by Defender of Freedom 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
December 25th is not the day Jesus was born.
They decided to celebrate His birth on some Pagan holiday, which is where all our Christmas traditions come from.
I don't quite remember it all, but here's the video that explains it all.
http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=4704780
2007-10-30 08:31:08 · answer #10 · answered by Old School Nintendo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋