What was Christ's actual birthday?

Question

a recognised calandar expert examined jewish calendars, bible texts, Book of Mormon calendars, and writings of Joseph Smith. all four gave the precise date,

Answer 1

Personally I think it was between March 1 and May 1.

Answer 2

David g has the right answer. It should not be too hard to document when Christ was born. If I were real good at digging up facts , I would find out when the King ordered the a census because Christ was born when Mary and Joseph went there as was the law to give the required information. I know that this census is very well documented. But yes Christ was CONCIEVED on Dec 25th, and had Jesus 9 mos. later. That equates to Sept . 25 which explains why the sheperds were still in the fields tending their sheep.

Answer 3

When was Jesus Born?
Jesus was born on the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles,
in the fall of the year. To be exact, He was born on Tishri 15,
which this year is the eve of September 26th and the day of September 27th, 2007 .

This birth date rotates with the Jewish calendar, so that means
that next year, 2008, it will be on a different date on our Gentile calendars.
It might be easier to remember to simply say that Jesus' birthday is the first day of the feast of Tabernacles
(Booths, Succoth, Ingathering).

First of all, WHERE does it say that Yeshua Jesus was born in the fall of the year?
A good question. Because there was NO POSSIBLE WAY for that question to be answered unless the Jews read the New Testament, and the Christians STUDIED the Old Testament.

Answer 4

Unless you were Mary, Joseph or the inn keeper no one knows the precise date Christ was born.

Answer 5

Well according to the scriptures it had to have been in the spring or the fall. The Palestinian winters were too cold for the shephards to have been out in their fields.

I think December was chosen to celebrate to coincide with the pagan Romans holiday whcih was in Decemebr to attracts new converts.

Answer 6

Summary of evidence. Summing up, then, since Jesus' death took place in the spring month of Nisan, his ministry, which began three and a half years earlier according to Daniel 9:24-27, must have begun in the fall, about the month of Ethanim (September-October). John's ministry (initiated in Tiberius' 15th year), then, must have begun in the spring of the year 29 C.E. John's birth therefore would be placed in the spring of the year 2 B.C.E., Jesus' birth would come about six months later in the fall of 2 B.C.E., his ministry would start about 30 years later in the fall of 29 C.E., and his death would come in the year 33 C.E. (on Nisan 14 in the spring, as stated).

No basis for winter date of birth. The popular date of December 25 as the day of Jesus' birth therefore has no basis in Scripture. As many reference works show, it stems from a pagan holiday. Regarding the origin for the celebration of the day December 25, the Jesuit scholar Urbanus Holzmeister wrote:

"Today it is commonly admitted that the occasion for the celebration of the day December 25 was the festival that the pagans were celebrating on this day. Petavius [French Jesuit scholar, 1583-1652] already has rightly observed that on December 25 was celebrated 'the birthday of the unconquered sun.'

"Witnesses for this festival are: (a) The Calendar of Furius Dionysius Filocalus, composed in the year 354 [C.E.], in which it is noted: 'December 25, the B(irthday) of the unconquered (Sun).' (b) The calendar of astrologer Antiochus (composed about 200 [C.E.]): 'Month of December . . . 25 . . . The birthday of the Sun; daylight increases.' (c) Caesar Julian [Julian the Apostate, emperor 361-363 C.E.] recommended the games that were celebrated at the end of the year in honor of the sun, which was called 'the unconquered sun.'"-Chronologia vitae Christi (Chronology of the Life of Christ), Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, Rome, 1933, p. 46.

Perhaps the most obvious evidence of the incorrectness of the December 25 date is the Scriptural fact that shepherds were in the fields tending their flocks on the night of Jesus' birth. (Lu 2:8, 12) Already by the autumn month of Bul (October-November) the rainy season was starting (De 11:14), and flocks were brought into protected shelters at night. The next month, Chislev (the ninth month of the Jewish calendar, November-December), was a month of cold and rain (Jer 36:22; Ezr 10:9, 13), and Tebeth (December-January) saw the lowest temperatures of the year, with occasional snows in the highlands area. The presence of shepherds in the fields at night therefore harmonizes with the evidence pointing to the early autumn month of Ethanim as the time of Jesus' birth.-See BUL; CHISLEV.

Also weighing against a December date is that it would be most unlikely for the Roman emperor to choose such a wintry, rainy month as the time for his Jewish subjects (often rebellious) to travel "each one to his own city" to be registered.-Lu 2:1-3; compare Mt 24:20; see TEBETH.

Early Life. The record of Jesus' early life is very brief. Born in Bethlehem of Judea, King David's native city, he was taken to Nazareth in Galilee after the family returned from Egypt-all of this in fulfillment of divine prophecy. (Mt 2:4-6, 14, 15, 19-23; Mic 5:2; Ho 11:1; Isa 11:1; Jer 23:5) Jesus' adoptive father, Joseph, was a carpenter (Mt 13:55) and evidently of little means. (Compare Lu 2:22-24 with Le 12:8.) Thus Jesus, who on his first day of human life had slept in a stable, evidently spent his childhood in quite humble circumstances. Nazareth was not historically prominent, though near to two principal trade routes. It may have been looked down upon by many Jews.-Compare Joh 1:46; see PICTURES, Vol. 2, p. 539; NAZARETH.

Answer 7

He was conceived on or about Dec. 25. He was born on or about Sept. 29.

You can get your documentation a the source below.

Answer 8

No one knows.
The Bible was silent about it.
The one sure thing is that it was not December 25th.
The shepherds would not have been watching their flocks by night in the winter there.

Answer 9

Well it wasn't Dec 25th. Shepard's would not be in the fields tending sheep. The sheep would have been in a barn.

Answer 10

No one really knows. 25th december is nowhere mentioned in the bible as christ's birthday..

Now, may i ask: why do christians celebrate christmas??