Jesus' birthday.
By nannacroc
@nannacroc (4049)
December 10, 2006 1:03pm CST
Do you believe that December 25th is Jesus' birthday? The reason I ask is because there were shepherds in the fields and, if December is winter where Jesus was born, then surely the shepherds would not still be out.
5 responses
@misskatonic (3723)
• United States
10 Dec 06
No, Jesus wasn't born in December. The reason Christmas is celebrated December 25th is because when Constantine was trying to convert all of Rome to Christianity, he coordinated all Christian celebrations to match up with pre-existing Roman holidays to make it more acceptable.
There's no solid proof as to when Jesus was born, but as far as historians can tell, it's most likely in late summer or early fall.
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@RieRie (820)
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11 Dec 06
Well I do think that Jesus was born at Christmas, cos that means Christs birth, but the calendar has changed a couple of times, with months added and whatnot, so even if 25th December existed when he was born (if he was) it probably got shifted about anyway.
He was probably born in April or summet.
@desideria (371)
• Romania
10 Dec 06
in december is not winter all over the world. and maybe those sheperds did not have anywhere elese to go so they had to be outside. there are many maybes here but we will nerver know for sure. that is why it is called faith...you believe without knowing for sure
@nannacroc (4049)
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10 Dec 06
Does that mean we should not question. Faith is fine but in my opinion, blind faith leads to trouble.
@dsunny (999)
• India
10 Dec 06
its been some 2000+ years since da day he was born...we cant say how da conditions in those days were...
