Was jesus born on december 25th?
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No he was not. 25th Dec is used traditionally because of the Pagens IIRC.
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This is almost as good as when someone asked what happened 2009 years ago, and why years start from there 
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there's no god, so there's no point of christmas, never was
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i think it was on the bbc a couple of years ago there was a suggestion that christmas was going to be moved to the final sunday in december to get more people in chruch
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If you're god then present some evidence please to stop the interminable debates on your existence, just a couple of minor miracles would do for starters (water into wine might be appreciated at this time of year), thanks for your co-operation.
December 25th was chosen as the date for Christ's Birthday as it coincided with an existing Pagan festival as said, if you want to get people to convert to your new religion it's a damn site easier transition if you can attach your festivities to theirs and subsume it that way. It's possible that Christ was born at this time of year but it seems a little unlikely given the other Biblical references to events that would normally happen in the spring.
Christmas is a pagan festival (winter solstice) disguised as a Christian festival.
Realistically, it has nothing to do with Christianity at all.
Assuming Jesus is real, there'd be no chance the whole "nativity" story happened in July, "Mary" and "Joseph" would have died in cold before "Mary" had even started giving birth to be quite honest.
If you're god then present some evidence please to stop the interminable debates on your existence, just a couple of minor miracles would do for starters (water into wine might be appreciated at this time of year), thanks for your co-operation.
I can convert water into golden water?
The Bible itself tells us that December 25 is an unlikely date for His birth. Palestine is very cold in December. It was much too cold to ask everyone to travel to the city of their fathers to register for taxes. Also the shepherds were in the fields (Luke 2:8-12). Shepherds were not in the fields in the winter time. They are in the fields early in March until early October. This would place Jesus' birth in the spring or early fall.
Maybe the is what it represents, no one knows when he was born they think around September time.
I think it's highly likely he existed. Whatever we think to the rest of what he was meant to do.
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