Biblical Evidence Shows Jesus Christ Wasn't Born on Dec. 25
But is it possible that December 25 could be the day of Christ’s birth?
“Lacking any scriptural pointers to Jesus’s birthday, early Christian teachers suggested dates all over the calendar. Clement… picked November 18. Hippolytus … figured Christ must have been born on a Wednesday … An anonymous document[,] believed to have been written in North Africa around A.D. 243, placed Jesus’s birth on March 28” (Jeffery Sheler, U.S. News &World Report, “In Search of Christmas,” Dec. 23, 1996, p. 58).
A careful analysis of Scripture, however, clearly indicates that December 25 is an unlikely date for Christ’s birth. Here are two primary reasons:
1. We know that shepherds were in the fields watching their flocks at the time of Jesus’ birth (Luke 2:7-8).
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During this Advent Season, as Christians everywhere prepare and recall the Coming of Jesus in Bethlehem, we declare “Peace on Earth and Good Will to All.” So I say to the women and men of the Islamic Cultural Center as they come into our fine community: “As-Salaam-Alaikum: Peace be unto you.”
