Why did they decided to celebrate Jesus day of birth on Dec. 25?
Scriptural evidence points to Jesus being born around or on the Feast of Trumpets in the fall. Just because you can make an association with December 25th being around the time of the winter solstice does not mean people are worshiping as pagans. The birth of Christ was an important event, and Christians have the right to esteem days or not esteem days to God. All days are God’s days; no one, including the devil, is able to steal a day, thus spoiling it for God and Christians. What pagans do and when they do it is of no concern to Christians. .
December 25 was in the middle of the pagan celebration of Saturnalia. It was a popular holiday at the time but some of the revelry was decidedly unChristian. The Church instituted Christ’s Mass on December 25 to celebrate the birth of Jesus to give Christians their own holiday and festival. The practice caught on. The summer solstice celebration was also something Christians should avoid so the Church instituted the Nativity of St. John the Baptist. John the Baptist was born six months before Jesus. Numerous other pagan holidays were eventually absorbed by the Church for the same reason.
It’s based on the older solstice celebrations, though different societies celebrated this on different days on or after the actual solstice. The more northern people tended to celebrate it a few days after the southern ones, though the reasons for that are unclear. It may have been the local culture that astronomical and other specialist activities preceded the main public celebrations. When Christianity spread, it rebranded most of the pre-existing festivals, and the Winter solstice one (e.g. Germanic Yule) was the one that became Christmas.
Your right and this is also an interesting find if you want to go a little further back that that. “Nimrod started the great organized worldly apostasy from God that has dominated this world until now. Nimrod married his own mother, whose name was Semiramis. After Nimrod’s death, his so-called mother-wife, Semiramis, propagated the evil doctrine of the survival of Nimrod as a spirit being. She claimed a full-grown evergreen tree sprang overnight from a dead tree stump, which symbolized the springing forth unto new life of the dead Nimrod. On each anniversary of his birth, she claimed, Nimrod would visit the evergreen tree and leave gifts upon it. December 25th, was the birthday of Nimrod. This is the real origin of the Christmas tree.” -The Plain Truth About Christmas by David J. Stewart | December 24th, 2005 Check out this link for more. http://babylon-the-great.xanga.com/55468… I have found there to be so
