How can Christmas day be Christ's birthday?

Question

If he was born on dec 25 why does the calender start 6 days later? Doesnt that mean that the year he was born has 6 days on a BC calender that should be on an AD? And shouldnt Christmas eve be New Years eve? Either the calender is off by 6 days or we have his Bday wrong. And i know i would be pissed if everyone missed my birthday by a week for 2000 years

Answer 1

It's because the circumcision of Christ took place one week after he was born, and it was then that he was given his game.  

Answer 2

He wasn't born on December 25.

Answer 3

It is not the actual date of his birth.

He was born in the Fall & died in the Spring, as he was 33 and a half years old when he died.

Answer 4

December 25 isn't jesus' birthday, if a man called jesus existed at that time.  The winter solstice was already being celebrated as a time of the earth renewing and reawakening, and the people of the new religion (christianity) knew their holiday had to come at around the same time to siphon off pagans to join in their new religion.

Answer 5

Jesus existed.  He was a real, live person, just like you and me.  It is believed he was born sometime during the spring.  However, Jesus was not the son of god since there is no god.  

Answer 6

Christmas is not Jesus' birthday. it is unknown.  

Answer 7

It's not his birthday.

Answer 8

Most people acknowledge that its not his actual bday.  Its just the day we celebrate representing his bday.

Answer 9

It's the day people decided to celebrate it.Jesus wasn't even born in the winter.

Answer 10

Jesus did not necessarily exist.

Answer 11

Christmas isn't actually his birthday.  Infact, he never existed in human form at all.  Do some research and learn stuff, its amazing what you can find out there.

Answer 12

December 25th isn't Jesus' birthday. It's just a convenient, winter festival date that was already established before Christianity and the Christians appropriated it.

Answer 13

It's not his birthday, it's a pagan holiday and the church made it Jesus' birthday to force the poor helpless pagans to convert to Christianity  

Answer 14

  Jesus was not born on Dec 25th.. We know He was born sometime in the fall but no exact date is known..Jesus was not the creator God but was God in the same sense that you and I are God...He was more evolved that most all others in history and could command miracles to happen by His strong faith..We are entering an era when we will see many miracles..Do not confuse those creating miracles with the creator God..One dose of Christianity is enough..Read Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch to understand God's creation process..Never think this answer came to you by accident.. God bless

Answer 15

Jesus was born and was crucified on his birthday: Passover! Which is [on our calenders] from the last two weeks of March to the first three weeks of April [the Hebrews used the lunar calender which has 13 months]. Jesus lived 33 years, he died in 27 AD, so that would put his birth year at 5 BC.

So who was born on Dec 25? Tammuz! He was the savior of the pagan/Babylonians. Semiramis was his mother, and she was the 'queen of heaven' the 'perpetual virgin'  'the mother of god'! Her husband [not Tammuz's father] was Nimrod, the king and founder of Assyria, and Babylon, the builder of their city's and the builder of the tower of Babel. He is the sun god, Semiramis is the moon god, and Tammuz is the reincarnation of  Nimrod and is also the sun god and the god of the stars [and the trees]. The sun, moon and stars this is the trinity!

Answer 16

It is not the actual day of his birth. In actuality Dec 25, was a pagan holiday. The day is not important, remembering that he came, and why he came is the important issue. If there was a day to remember the event it would be according to the Jewish calender anyway, since he was of Jewish decent.

Answer 17

Actually, the calendar is off by six or eight years.  Jesus was born sometime before the death of Herod, and Herod died in 4 BCE.  Personally, I place the birth of Christ sometime in the Spring of 6 BCE.  Spring because that's when the lambs are born (the only reason the flocks would be left in the fields over night) and 6 BCE coincides with a stellar event that reflects the "Star of Bethleham" which was the planet Jupiter rising in the constellation of the Ram...signifying to astrologers the birth of a King for Israel.

The earliest known celebration of the feast of the Nativity is around 200 CE in Egypt.  It was celebrated in the East much earlier than in the West, and then in Spring.

It's noted in Rome in the mid 300's and around 25 DEC...some seem to think it was just the adoption of the pagan festival Sol Invictus...though some of these trappings were adapted, there's no real evidence that it was celebrated to replace the pagan feast.

Answer 18

Actually, some research suggests that a better birth-date for Jesus would be sometime in March 3 years before or after what's accepted as the year 0.

Christmas was slated on the 25th because it runs smack-dab up against the Winter solstice when many various, indigenous and pagan traditions had major celebrations.  When Christianity was spreading, many people didn't mind changing who they were worshiping, so long as they got to keep their local traditions.  Putting a major Christian holiday near the Winter Solstice eased the transition from local practice to Christianity as it spread across Europe.

Also, New Years being 6 days later would've been around the time that Jesus would've been circumcised as a baby.  You wait a few days to make sure the kid's going to live.  I've never heard a religious explanation for this being the beginning of the year, but perhaps that's why?  

Answer 19

December 25th is just a day to recognize The Birth of Jesus Christ.  We do not know the actual day, but it is a beautiful time of year (especially in the United States) and just honoring God for showing His love to the world by giving us His only begotten Son is wonderful indeed.  Just as this coming Sunday (Sept. 7th) is grandparents day - it is not the birth date for any of my grandparents (paternal or maternal) but they are always glad to receive a card or phone call from me, knowing that I appreciate them all year round and not just on that one day.  

Answer 20

My understand of the day of Christ's birth, Christmas, is that the day was chosen in a kind of arbitrary way. I've heard it is a day chosen to conform to some other cultural days of religious practice, and though I tend to believe the consistency of such a choice because of its meaning to people, I think the choice is close enough for an historical guess.

In any event, I practice the celebration of Christ's birth on Christmas Day.