Bryan Admire asks:

 I have been having a discussion with some friends who think that Christmas day was Christ birthday. They want more evidence that it is not. They believe that the bible is the word of God, but are still following worldly belief that Christ was born on Dec. 25th. I have told them that his birth was a glorious day for the world to know him, but that if a christian is going to follow the bible than our memorial or day in which we are to reconize would be the one that salvation is bought by which would be the day of his death,burial, and resurrcertion(which is the most glorious birth; into the spiritual realm) Can there be any reason for a Christian to celebrate the birth of Christ’s fleshly birth? If so than don’t we become hypocrites if we teach that we don’t know when Christ was born, but we pick a day that the world said He was(which is close to pagan worship day;(solcese)? Please help!!

Thank you for emailing me. Your question is a good one, and one that often comes up this time of year. The religious world has decided that Christmas day is the birth of Christ, and there is very little that can be said to dissuade them. One of the biggest problems that we see is people ask the question backwards. They ask you to prove that it is not, yet the fact of the matter is that there is no proof that it is, Biblically speaking. The burden of proof is on them to prove that it is Christ’s birthday first, and then for us to examine that evidence. It is very hard to prove the negative. Read the rest of this entry »