Why do they choose the 25th December as Jesus birthday?

Answer 1

Because they don't know any better and don't want to know; it is a fundamental aspect of religion that adherents do not question what the leaders tell them, and take it on faith. Another factor is that it has been that way for over 1 and a haf millenia - it would take somewhat of a major change to alter anything that long-held.

AnswerSince it has been in place for so long and especially since the exact date is not known it is still appropriate to celebrate Christ's birth and what it represents when most other people also do. Most realize it is not the exact date, and even those Christians who do not celebrate Christmas sometimes take the opportunity to participate in family reunions at the time. Also, some believe it could be close to the date on which Christ was conceived.

Answer 2

Experts believe that Christ was actually born sometime around March. However, the calendars they used to have are different from today's Julian calendar. The Church estimates that Christ's birth using a Julian calendar is in December. * Christmas was not actually the date of Christ's birth. Christmas was incorporated into Christianity during the time of the Roman Emperor Constantine. Christmas actually originated from pagan religions. This time was called Yule. At the time of Constantine, he was trying to unify the empire with the new religion of Christianity. Incorporating Pagan seasons into Christianity was a successful attempt by Constantine and the Roman Empire to convert people of other religions to Christianity. There are a lot of Christian holidays like this. Most Christians don't know or believe this. Historically, these are facts.

Answer 3

It is not known the corect date of the birth of Jesus. But the early christians put 25th December as the birthday as it was Satiurns birthday and the pagans celebrated it. They chamged it to Christs birthday.

Answer 4

No one prior to 335 AD celebrated the birthday of Jesus The word "Christmas" (Christ + Mass) was first used in 1038 AD. Before 335 AD, the pagan cult of Mithra, the Iranian "god of light", had long celebrated December 25 as Mithra's birthday. December 21, being the winter solace, marked the beginning of days with increasing amount of light, hence December 25 celebrated Mithra's triumph over darkness. Because the pagan festival that celebrated Mithra's birthday was so popular, the Roman Catholic church adopted the day, but changed the meaning from the birthday of Mithra, the "god of light", to Christ's birthday, God the son, "light of the world". The old meaning of December 25 was connected with Mithra's triumph over physical darkness. The new meaning celebrated Jesus triumph over spiritual darkness. Eventually Christmas became dominant, the Mithra cult went extinct and today this origin is not widely known among Roman Catholics. None of the apostles or the early church celebrated the birthday of Jesus.

Roman Catholic AnswerPlease keep in mind that the Catholic Church has been celebrating the birth of Christ for over two thousand years. The Catholic Church was founded by twelve Apostles who knew and lived with Jesus Christ, and His Mother. St. Luke, not an apostle, but the author of the third Gospel, knew Mary well, and got most of his information for the Nativity narrative from her. Given all that, it is, as with many other things, more than probable that the date is the actual date on which Jesus was born. The ancients did not have the same idea of history that we do, and did not record and prove things the way in which we are familiar with such things today, so we can not "prove" that it was that day, by looking it up in the registry of births in the Roman empire, for example.

Also keep in mind that God is the Lord of History. This is His world, even if the evil one has been its ruler for most of history. Even with the evil one's influence, God still instilled some faint image of truth in other people's and cultures, remember that we are talking about God here!

The tendency to read things backwards, to think that pagan myths came first and that the Catholic Church tried to baptize them is a common misconception that has come about since the protestant revolt. Remember that it happened fifteen centuries after Jesus walked the earth. The Catholic Church was there in the first century, already believing and celebrating these things. The protestants sought to rewrite history to favor their way of looking at things, which came up with some really twisted theories. One of the things that they did not like, for some reason, was Christmas, and they, like the Puritans, attacked all things having to do with it.

from Radio Replies, by Fathers Rumble and Carty, 1942

690. In what year and on what day was Christ born?

It is probable that He was born on December 25th, our present Christmas Day. I say that this is probable, because there is really no strict proof in favor of the exact day. Traditionally, we can say that there is much more for it than against it. There is more difficulty as regards the exact year. It is certain that Christ was born after the Roman year 747, and before the Roman year 749. That is, He was born between 5 and 7 years before the usually accepted year 1 of the Christian era.

from Modern Catholic Dictionary by John A. Hardon, S.J. Doubleday & Co., Inc. Garden City, NY 1980

Christmas. Feast of the Nativity of Jesus Christ. In the early Church the feast was celebrated along with the Epiphany. But already in A.D. 200 St. Clement of Alexandria (150-215) refers to a special feast on May 20, and the Latin Church began observing it on December 25. The privilege of priests offering three Masses on Christmas Day goes back to a custom originally practiced by a pope who, about the fourth century, celebrated a midnight Mass in the Liberian Basilica (where traditionally the manager of Bethlehem is preserved), a second in the Church of St. Anastasia, whose feast falls on December 25, and a third at the Vatican Basilica. Many of the present customs in various countries are traceable to the Church's Christianizing the pagan celebrations associated with the beginning of winter and the new year. (Etym. Anglo-Saxon Cristes Maesse, Christ's Mass.)

Answer 5

they don't