Do most christians believe that December 25 was the actual birthdate of Jesus?

Question

Or has that just become the traditional date?

Answer 1

Most Christians will never read this question. You'll be lucky to get 25-30 OPINIONS.

Answer 2

It was reported in the Bible that the shepards were out in the meadows with their flocks when Jesus was born, that wouldn't have happened had He been born in the winter.

There were several pagan holidays about this time of year, most importantly: solstice.

from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas
Pre-Christian origins
A winter festival was traditionally the most popular festival of the year in many cultures. Reasons included less agricultural work needing to be done during the winter, as well as people expecting longer days and shorter nights after the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. In part, the Christmas celebration was created by the early Church in order to entice pagan Romans to convert to Christianity without losing their own winter celebrations. Most of the most important gods in the religions of Ishtar and Mithra had their birthdays on December 25. Various traditions are considered to have been syncretised from various winter festivals.

Answer 3

The time around twenty 5th of December has generally been an somewhat festive time for holidays. some partying and celebrating smash up the drudgery of iciness. i think of it would desire to have been the romans who all started the Christmas difficulty. i've got faith there would have been a pagan trip then that they only form of labored over right into a Christian trip. Sorry each and every of the small print I truthfully have. important difficulty is that Christmas time became regularly celebrated interior the previous the two as a Christian trip or pagan trip.

Answer 4

no i dont believe that december 25 is the birthdate of our lord jesus christ when he was birth acording to the history of the bible many of people was feeding the shepp in the forest it means its not on snow while on dec every country is affected by snow at that time so it could be not dec 25. its only a tradition

Answer 5

The word "Christmas" means "Mass of Christ" or, as it later became shortened, "Christ-Mass." It came to us as a Roman Catholic mass. And where did they get it? From the pegan celebration of December 25th, as the birthday of Sol the SUN GOD! It is, actually, an ancient rite of BAALISM, which the Bible condemns as the most abominable of all idolatrous worship!

It is not so much as MENTIONED anywhere in the New Testament. It was never observed by Paul, the apostles, the early true Christian Church!

The idea that Jesus was born December 25th, is one of the FABLES the Apostle Paul prophesied (II Tim. 4:4) would deceive the world in these latter days.

The plain truth is, Christmas is NOT Christ's birthday at all! And this festival, important as it seems to so many, is not of Christian, but of pagan — Babylonish — origin!

Jesus was not even born in the winter season! When the Christ-child was born "there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night" (Luke 2:8). This never could have occurred in Palestine in the month of December. The shepherds always brought their flocks from the mountainsides and fields and corralled them not later than October 15, to protect them from the cold, rainy season that followed that date. Notice that the Bible itself proves in Song of Solomon 2:11, and Ezra 10:9, and 13, that winter was a rainy season not permitting shepherds to abide in open fields at night.

It was an ancient custom among Jews of those days to send out their sheep to the fields and deserts about the Passover (early spring), and bring them home at commencement of the first rain
Christmas was NOT observed by Christians for the first two or three hundred years — a period longer than the entire history of the United States as a nation! It got into the Western, or Roman Church, by the FOURTH century A.D. It was not until the FIFTH century that the Roman Church ordered it to be celebrated as an official "Christian" festival!
But remember, these people had grown up in PAGAN customs, chief of which was this idolatrous festival of December 25th. It was a festival of merrymaking, with its special SPIRIT. They ENJOYED it! They didn't want to give it up! Now this same article in Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia explains how the recognition by Constantine, of Sunday, which had been the day of pagan SUN-worship, and how the influence of the pagan Manichaeism, which identified the SON of God with the physical SUN, gave these pagans of the fourth century, now turning over wholesale to "Christianity," their EXCUSE for calling their pagan-festival date of December 25th (birthday of the SUN god), the birthday of the SON of God

Answer 6

There is no evidence to the date of Jesus. If God wanted us to keep remember the date, he would have given an idea. So He didn't keep any of that idea in Bible.
Historically there is no proof that he was born on Decmber 25. It was a greek festival before. But later it became a Christian festival. As per some thelogians, he was born on September. But why we should celebrate it. Let us wait for His coming and prepare many. Why wasting time and money on a non-assured matter?
I don't celebrate christmas, but I take this time to tell gospel to somebody who doesn't know the salvation Jesus brought to us.

Answer 7

Dec. 25 cannot be his birthdate.
He was 'about' thirty when baptised. He preached for 3 1/2 years. that is confirmed by fact and by prophecy.

(Daniel 9:27) “And he must keep [the] covenant in force for the many for one week; and at the half of the week he will cause sacrifice and gift offering to cease. “And upon the wing of disgusting things there will be the one causing desolation; and until an extermination, the very thing decided upon will go pouring out also upon the one lying desolate.”

Half of a week is 3 1/2 days.

" A day for a year"...

(Ezekiel 4:6) And you must complete them. “And you must lie upon your right side in the second case, and you must carry the error of the house of Judah forty days. A day for a year, a day for a year, is what I have given you.

Jesus died on Nisan 14 of the Jewish calendar. About april/ May . About easter.

Just go back in time 33 1/2 years and you have the month of September/ October....NOT December 25.

Also the bible says the shepherds were in the fields with their flocks. This could be September.

By December in Jerusalem/ Bethlehem, in those days, and because of the cold, the shepherds would have their flocks locked up in the lower level of their houses, as proved by archaeologists.
And Jesus NEVER asked us to celebrate his birthday...He DID ask us to remember his death.
(Luke 22:19) Also, he took a loaf, gave thanks, broke it, and gave it to them, saying: “This means my body which is to be given in YOUR behalf. Keep doing this in remembrance of me.”

(1 Corinthians 11:24) and, after giving thanks, he broke it and said: “This means my body which is in YOUR behalf. Keep doing this in remembrance of me.”

Scripture is the only way to prove any biblical question.

Answer 8

Most Christians do not believe that, and maintain that the December 25th date is just a tradition.

A few Christians, like myself, believe that there is very good evidence that Jesus was born on or around December 25th.

Answer 9

This Christian doesn't, and I don't know a single Christian that does.

Most of the Christians I know recognize that December 25th was chosen so that the pagans would have an easier time converting.

Answer 10

No I as a Christian do not know the day that my Lord and Savior came in to this world that is the day we celebrate it and the actual day does not really matter to me.