Where in the bible does it say that jesus was born on 25 Dec, is this a lie?

Question

Were christmas and easter just given these dates so that christianity could hijack the equinox & solstice celebrations?

Did christianity plagiarize paganism?

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Answer 1

No where.
It's a lie.

Answer 2

No one knows when Jesus was born - we don't even know the year for certain. It was some time before the church decided to celebrate the incarnation. Initially they chose a date in May but later some churches went for 6th Jan and some for 25th December. Now all except the Armenian church use 35th December.
No one really knows why 25th December was chosen. Some say it was because it is 9 months after the feast of the annunciation and others say that it was because it was already a pagan feast.
It is widely stated in YA that it was the latter but no one has posted a scholarly reference whilst I have been a member - but that is not very long. Perhaps it is said so often that it has become folklore.
Easter is different. It is the most important Christian festival and the death of Christ took place during the Jewish Passover. The date of the Passover is determined by the phases of the moon so the Easter feast is now celebrated when the moon is full between 21 March and 25th April

Answer 3

Where in the bible does it say that jesus was born on 25 Dec, is this a lie?
No verse in the Bible provides that data. That date was selected by the catholic churh centuries ago. The Bible provides evidence that Jesus was not born during the winter. the sheppards who visited Jesus the night He was born were watching over their sheeps out in the outdoors. That would not have happened during the cold/humid/rainy nights of winter or they would risk lossing their flocks due to a pulmony. During winter they kept their sheep on shelters in their farms, not at the outdoors.

Now, since we do not exactly in which month / day He was born, any selected date is good to celebrate it. Since the catholic church picked Dec 25th and all the people is already set to celebrate it at that date, what use it has to promote a change for March 1? May 23? or August 18?
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The gospels states clearly that the cruxifiction was performed on the Friday before the celebration of Passover, (the jews considered that the sabbath starts on Friday at sunset).

Answer 4

The Bible doesn't give any specific dates as to the birth of Jesus, what we do know is that Christians identified and honored the date/ time of Jesus birth early on. As early as 65AD according to the earliest Greek manuscripts of the Gospel of Luke.

The pagen festival of the "Birth of the Unconquered Son" was established by Roman Emperior Aurelian as December 25 in 274 AD. By that time it was already clear that the Christian Church in both the west and east was acknowledging the birth of Jesus somewhere between December 25 and January 6.

It seems by the evidence then, that Aurelian sought to established a pagen festival on December 25th to counter an already existing Christian seasonal celebration, and not the other way around. So it may be that pagens actually stole the celebration from Christians.

Answer 5

Christmas date is not in the Bible and the date was picked by early Christians. Easter was celebrated during the time Jewish people had their Passover Celebration. Christians believe Christ was crucified during the time that Passover took place. In the Gospel Mark 14:17, Matthew 26:20-25, Luke22:14-16, and John 13:21-30 the Passover is celebrated right before Jesus is arrested and crucified.

Answer 6

The reason they chose December 25th as the day to celebrate the birthday of Jesus was because the pagans they were trying to convert to Christianity already had a major holiday on the Winter Solstice. The Romans had Saturnalia. In some cases, that day was the "birthday" of the sun god, because the sun stopped "moving away" and started coming back. The candles, bonfires, and Yule logs were all a form of sympathetic magic to invite the sun to return. No one knows when Jesus was born, but if shepherds were feeding their flocks at night, the only time they did that was when it was too hot to do it during the day, so it couldn't have been winter. No one is sure what year he was born.

Answer 7

It doesn't. New info has come around to suggest that Jesus was born on or around April 15th between 3 bc and 6ad. There was some miscalulation in the year due to a monk who was trying to calculate the proper year and made an error. 25 December, coincides with a pagan holiday that the Romans celibrated. When Christianity came into play under Constantine, he made in December so that Christmas would catch on.

Answer 8

In anything I've ever read, Jesus was born during the harvest which means somewhere between Spetember and November. Dec 25, was a man made date.

Answer 9

Christmas has been dealt with by other answerers.

Easter is a different matter, apart from the name, which probably does have non-Christian origins.
(and the bunnies and eggs and chicks which have "come along for the ride" but are not really Christian, or core elements)

Jesus' crucifixion is tied to the Jewish festival of Passover, which takes place at a ful moon..
(kills the "darkness at noon was a solar eclipse" explanation dead)
Hence the placing of Easter at that time of year is a given, but Easter is a "moveable feast", the exact date depending on the phase of the moon close to the spring equinox.
"Easter... the first Sunday following the first full moon after the spring equinox. "

The Orthodox church, still using the Julian calendar, has Easter approximately five weeks later than the Western one.

Answer 10

Mithra, the Ancient Roman War God was born on Dec. 25th.

Jesus would have been born somtime around June. Probably, around the Jewish holiday Shovuot, Also known as pentecost, which celebrates the giving of Torah to Moses.

If the Torah is the Word of God, and Jesus was the Word "Logos" of God, then it would seem fitting for him to come into the world around this time.

According to the Scriptures, Mary was impregnated in the Sixth month, (of the Jewish Calendar.) This puts her impregnation around September, and the birth around June. Whereas John the Baptist, was born around the end of december because Elizabeth was in her six month at the time Mary came to visit her. Placing Johns Birthday at the end of December or beginning of January.

Answer 11

The date of Christmas was picked specifically because it did coincide with a Roman civil holiday. The Christians were still celebrating it, so the hierarchy decided to at least try to remind them of their unique beliefs.

Easter, on the other hand, has its date based on the archaic formula for calculating PASSOVER. Thus, it is from the Jews. Of the two holidays, Easter is the more authentically Christian. Oddly enough, in the West, it is the one that is cared about the least.

Contrary to the propaganda from liars and the stupid, not every single aspect of Christianity was "stolen" from paganism. Some was inherited from Judaism, which is an acknowledged predecessor.