Christmas is on Dec. 25, but it wasn't always. Dec. 25 is not the date mentioned in the Bible as the day of Jesus's birth; the Bible is actually silent on the day or the time of year when Mary was said to have given birth to him in Bethlehem.
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He thus dates Jesus's conception to the following spring equinox and concludes that Jesus was born on 25 December. According to Normand Bonneau, earlier ...
Exactly nine months later, Jesus was born, on December 25. This idea appears in an anonymous Christian treatise titled On Solstices and Equinoxes, which appears ...
December 25 has become more and more acceptable as the birth date of Jesus. However, some argue that the birth occurred in some other season, such as in the ...
Nov 20, 2023 ˇ No one knows. December 25th is commemorative. Yes, it may have been a date used for other things in the past, but that doesn't matter. It is the ...
Dec 4, 2022 ˇ The Bible doesn't say the date or even time of year but probably not December 25th. Some think October or early November.
Dec 7, 2022 ˇ March 25th is exactly nine months before December 25th, and therefore December 25th was selected as the date for Christ's birth. According to ...
Dec 3, 2004 ˇ A careful analysis of Scripture, however, clearly indicates that December 25 is an unlikely date for Christ's birth.
However, the Church has never definitively taught that Jesus was born on December 25; there is no conclusive documentary evidence and Sacred Scripture mentions ...
While it is certainly possible that Jesus was born on that date, there is not enough evidence to be precise.
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