My Response To Someone's Post About The True Date Of Jesus' Birth.

Someone online recently posted:
Jesus birthday wasn't on 25th December. Research people.

My response:
There are several reasons why what you are saying is wrong:
• We may never know the true date of his birth because it was never recorded by historians, not even Jewish ones like Josephus.
• Biblical clues suggest spring or fall, or late fall, but don't give a specific date.
• The first recorded celebration on this date was in 336 A.D. in Rome long after anyone would have known or had any record of it.
• Early Christians may have chosen the date to coincide with Roman winter solstice (may have, MAY have) effectively Christianizing them. But that has always been speculative and the key word here is Christianizing. Much like the possible pagan origins of the Autumnal Jewish festival of Sukkot.
• The monk Dionysius Exiguus calculated the year of Jesus' birth in the 6th century reasoning he the world began on March 25th (or the vernal equinox) and Jesus was conceived on that same day as God's perfect Son then his birth would be nine months later, on December 25th. But as I said, this was just logic based on growing and planting seasons, like what I said about Sukkot.
• Nobody gives a shǝt about what you are talking about and people who do ate paste in grade school.

 

I heard it was in July or August!!

Why its celebrated on 25/12 is wierd!!