The True Birth of Christ

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with the new movie "The Nativity" coming up, it brings the question of how Jesus was really born. Many different account have been made about the date and the actual happenings of that day. Here's a clip from a website: http://www.worldofchristmas.net/actual-christ-birth.html Many Biblical scholars have argued from time to time that December 25th was not the actual birth date of Christ. It was just adopted as a day to celebrate the birth of Christ as a Christian substitute to the Roman festival Saturnalia in the third century. Saturnalia was celebrated as the Feast of Sun and was actually considered the birth date of the Sun God of the Romans. Catholic priests held a special mass that day for Christ and thus, it came to be known as 'Christ-mass' or 'Christmas'. Along with the date, several other pagan traditions, rituals and customs followed the way to become associated with Christmas such as decorating fir trees and burning yule logs. According to these scholars, Christ was most probably born on September 11, 3 B.C., which was Wednesday, according to the Bible. There are several other inaccuracies that we can see in the Nativity plays that are popular these days.... Visit the site for the rest of the proof... Whats your take on this and is it logical? Do you believe in it? I think that it is logical, and I'm willing to look into it. I'm a christian myself, but there are were always a few questions that I have. Now don't doubt me, I'm not doubting the fact that he was born. I just think we as man got it a little wrong, and the doings of the Church itself adopting the dates and certian practices just to bring in more people (and more money) its not something to unimaginable. I don't doubt God or Jesus, just the 'men' who have run the Church, sometimes you just get the message wrong.