What is the actual day that Jesus Christ was born on?

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Everyone KNOWS that December 25th is Christmas, but that is not his actual birthday.  With all the changes made to the calender(s) over the centuries, has his actual birthday been lost?  With two extra months added by the Romans? ( OCTober - #8 but is 10th month, SEPtember #9 and DECember -#10 same thing) at the same time as trying to conquer the Germanic tribes (that worshiped evergreen trees - sound familiar?)  I think the old Jewish "calender" was/is actually a counting of days ( not broken into months). Leap year is also a recent addition to the keeping of time records.  Is it possible that the man known as Jesus of Nazareth was born on a different date?  Christmas in July anyone?

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

The reason that we celebrate his birthday on the 25th goes back some ages ago.
Back in the day when emperor Constantine declared that the entire roman empire should become Christian there was a big problem. Officially everybody in the empire was christian on paper but it was hard to get the people to join actually be christian, tribes with their own celebrations etc. One big celebration was the birth of the light they believed that the sun was born again on december 25th. So to make it easier for the people to be christian they said well Jesus is the light so we can still throw a party only we say that not the light is born again but jesus. get it?

Scholars believe Jesus was born somewhere during summer

Gregory · Answer

no one knows the exact day

yes jesus was not born in the winter

that is just when people chose to celebrate his birth

Tybee · Answer

don't know, doesn't matter.  We are not commanded to remember his birthday.  Any day we choose to set aside for that purpose is fine.

XXXXX · Answer

no one knows because it never happened

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