how do we know christmas is the right birthday for jesus Christ?

Answer 1

Book of Luke say's His birthday is Sept.29th
(very educational)

Answer 2

The fact is that Christmas is a rather modern innovation. Christ's birthday was not celebrated until more than 300 years had gone by, years in which accurate birth records(if there were any)had been lost. The early church remembered and celebrated Christ's Resurrection from the dead, which was more important. But the church was slow in adding Christmas to its list of dates worthy of recognition.

Luke pinpoints the era of Christ's birth by naming Augustus as Rome's imperial ruler. Roman history shows that Caesar Augustus was born 691 years after founding of the City of Rome. Luke 2 further tells that Cyrenius was Syria's governor; again, thanks to Rome's exhaustive record of names and events, historians have determined what is believed to be the particular census that Luke described. These dates have minor discrepancies; yet secular history gives us almost the exact year of Christ's birth.

But the month? the day? Winter was wet and chilly in Judea. It is unlikely that shepherds would have spent a December night in an open field, subject to rain and wind. Christ's birth was more likely during the spring lambing season, when nights would have been balmy and shepherds would have needed to be awake, tending the ewes.

So why have we celebrated Christ's birthday on December 25? A pagan festival, Natalis Invicti, was a boisterous Roman affair celebrated on December 25, when the sun was in its winter solstice. Worshipers of the Roman sun god enthusiastically pulled their Christian friends into the partying. By A.D. 386, church leaders set up the celebration of "Christ Mass" ("Christ's Coming"), so that Christians could join the festival activities without bending to paganism.

After the Roman Empire dissolved, Christians continued the December 25 birthday custom. By that time, December 25 seemed more fitting than any other date.

Answer 3

In the New Testament it says Shepherds were watching their flocks by NIGHT. The only time they do that is during the birthing season IN THE SPRING.

I believe Christ was born in the spring, not December.

Emporer Constantine decided for all Christians that December 25 would be the official date for Jesus' birth because it was also the same day as the Pagan holiday for the birth of the new sun. Something to do with the winter solstice and days getting longer again. Constantine was Pagan, and though he saw Christianity as the new most popular religion, he decided to infuse a lot of his own beliefs in the religion, and made Christianity the official state religian for the Roman empire.

Jesus was not born on December 25.

Answer 4

Do I really have to answer this question again?? OK...
Jesus is Born (probably in the summer - sheperds were in the fields)
Wise men come (probably around the Winter Solstice - hence the gifts)
Christianity spreads into the word, specifically to the Roman Empire. (over the course of several years)
The Romans wanted Christianity to look attractive to the Pagans, so that they would be more comfortable with converting to Christianity.
The Romans took an existing Pagan holiday (Winter Solstice/Saturnalia/Yule) and integrated the celebration of Christ's birth.
We now celebrate Christmas. This is NOT debated, even in most Christian circles. Christmas is just a time of Celebration, not an actual marking of the day

::headdesk::

Answer 5

The pagans celebrated the sun god as the days began to get longer again, around December 25. They did this with lights to honor the sun god. The early Church would often compare Jesus to the positive attributes of the pagan religions, to help the early converts understand by taking them where they were to a deeper place. Christ is the light of the darkened world.
The Christmas tree, which survived winter and does not die would represents the tree of the cross, which gives us life, with the light of Christ on it.
We do not know the exact date of Christ's birth.

Answer 6

Late December is the time of the Winter Solstice and in order to make the transition to Christianity easier on the unsuspecting Pagans, the Church centered some of their holy days around the Pagan holidays that had been celebrated for thousands of years (Christmas at Yule time, Easter around the time Eostre was celebrated, etc).

At Yule, Pagans celebrated the birth of the Sun.

"Huge Yule logs were burned in honor of the sun. The word Yule itself means “wheel,” the wheel being a pagan symbol for the sun. Mistletoe was considered a sacred plant, and the custom of kissing under the mistletoe began as a fertility ritual. Hollyberries were thought to be a food of the gods.

The tree is the one symbol that unites almost all the northern European winter solstices. Live evergreen trees were often brought into homes during the harsh winters as a reminder to inhabitants that soon their crops would grow again. Evergreen boughs were sometimes carried as totems of good luck and were often present at weddings, representing fertility. The Druids used the tree as a religious symbol, holding their sacred ceremonies while surrounding and worshipping huge trees."

Answer 7

Christmas isn't the correct birthday for Jesus. It was originally a pagan holiday. A Solstice Festival. Early Christians decided on December 25th because IT was a pagan holiday and they thought that it would be easier to convert the pagans if they used already existing holidays to celebrate important christian events. Easter isn't really when Jesus rose from the grave either. Another pagan Holiday usurped for the christian purpose.

Answer 8

We don't, the Bible says nothing on the subject. We do know that the day on which christmas is celebrated used to be the celebration date for Saturnalia, the birthday of the saviour-god Mithra. Mithraism was one of the primary religions of ancient rome and it is likely that after emperor Constantine's conversion to christianity that the holiday was "christianised" instead of being discarded. Ever wonder why the birthday of a religious leader who told people to give all their riches to the poor is celebrated with feasts and presents? There's your awnser; it's a hold-over from an earlier faith.

Answer 9

Christmas is not the birthday of Jesus Christ and everyone knows it.

Answer 10

First off, I don't believe in Jesus, but I know that Dec 25th was celebrated as the Winter Solstice in ancient times, and the Christians wanted a day to celebrate the birth of Jesus but the ruling authorities said no, and so they just picked Dec 25th because that was already a holiday...it was like a if you can't beat them, join them kind of thing.

Answer 11

It was randomly set that way when people started to want a devotion so deep that they wanted a lock of hair, a piece of clothing, and everything else rabid fangirls go for, so the church authority of the time, not knowing Christ's exact birthday, set it just after the winter solstice to signify the end of darkness (the longest night) and the beginning of light. This teaching is totally lost on Aussies, South Americans, South Africans and penguins.