Was Jesus born on December 25?
Neither the date 25th December nor any other date on Jesus' birth is mentioned in the Bible. Not until the year 530 C.E., that a monk, Dionysus Exigus, fixed the date of the birth of Jesus on December 25th.
"He wrongly dated the birth of Christ according to the Roman system (i.e., 754 years after the founding of Rome) as December 25, 753".
"He wrongly dated the birth of Christ according to the Roman system (i.e., 754 years after the founding of Rome) as December 25, 753".
(Encyclopedia Britannica, 1998 Ed.)
This date was chosen perhaps in keeping with the holidays already indoctrinated into pagans.Roman pagans celebrated December 25th as the birth of their 'god' of light, Mithra.
"In the 2nd century CE, it (Mithraism) was more general in the Roman Empire than Christianity, to which it bore many similarities".
(The Concise Columbia Encyclopedia, 1995 Ed.)
"The reason why Christmas came to be celebrated on December 25 remains uncertain, but most probably the reason is that early Christians wished the date to coincide with the pagan Roman festival marking the "birthday of the unconquered sun" (natalis solis invicti); this festival celebrated the winter solstice, when the days again begin to lengthen and the sun begins to climb higher in the sky".
(Encyclopedia Britannica, 1998 Ed.)
Other pagan 'gods' born on December 25th are: Hercules, the son of Zeus (Greeks); Bacchus, god of wind, (Romans); Adenis, god of Greeks; Freyr, the Greek-Roman god.