why did we chose december 25 to celabrate christ birthday?

Answer 1

        The Winter Solstice (as one person mentioned above) is actually on or about December 22. The original use, that I know of (approximately 2300 BC), for the 25th is that Semiramis, the wife of Nimrod (the original founder of what we now call Babylon), declared her husband, when he died, and in order to maintain her power over the kingdom, to be the Sun god. Apparently, she further claimed, posthumously, to have given birth to Nimrod's son, Tammuz, on what we know of as December the 25th.

        Another tradition is that the 25th comes up because, in pagan traditions, they noticed the shortening days of the Sun and feared his death altogether. They began making great sacrifices to the Sun god in the hopes of strengthening him. By the third day after the winter solstice, they could tell he was gaining in strength because the daylight hours were noticeably longer by that time. They declared that day, the 25th, as the (re-)birth of the Sun god.

God bless.

Answer 2

I just read a National Geographic article about Bethlehem, it is interesting that they celebrate xmas December 25th, Jan 8th, and Jan 18th at or around the Church of the Nativity. All these groups are variations of Catholicism, and even they cannot agree on their FALSE beleif, is it any wonder that people cannot believe the truth?

Messiah Yeshua was born in the fall during the Fall Festival season of the Bible and not during some pagan, manmade holiday.

Easily proven, check this out:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ahh22UBM9CTdXZTY6TgEcqHty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20071219214258AAqUSnH


Edit:LOL! I wonder if the thumbs down was for reading NG or telling the truth about xmas?

Edit: Found another proof of the deception of Christmas:

http://www.cbcg.org/christmas_printer_version.htm

Answer 3

We did not choose this day it was chosen for us by a man
who sought to change the times & the seasons, he is one of
many who seeks to change YHWH's Torah/Law.
I do not have a problem with people celebrating on 25th, but
do it with sincerity, not making it worldly & an excuse for
excess, with materialism & greed thrown in for peoples lust.
When you know the truth then celebrate at Sukkot.

Answer 4

*sigh*

The first Cathlics were busy trying to convert people when Winter Solstice rolled around, which falls on--guess--December 25th. They decided to celebrate Christ's birth on that day to overshadow the Pagan tradition in order to make more people convert.

Answer 5

*WE* didn't. The early Catholic Church did, for political appeasement and enlistment reasons.

The tougher question is why do *we* keep on choosing it, when we know that (a) it's not the right date and (b) scripture does not tell us to celebrate it. Anyone who thinks it's the right date has not read either book of the Bible carefully.

Answer 6

He was born more likely in the summer months June, July or August but no later than Sept... Bible gives it away... sheep still in the Fields, not in the field during winter... and in Dec. a lot of the passes are snowed in ( government wouldn't do that they want everyone to show up!) so you don't have people travel.
However Infinity says it best. :)

Answer 7

Because today is the day he was born, that is why it's called Christmas, you know Christ's mass.

Answer 8

Infinity is the closest so far. For more accurate detail, check the site below.

Answer 9

Who knows?

Answer 10

isnt that when he was born? lol.