December 25

The Bible offers few clues: Celebrations of Jesus’ Nativity are not mentioned in the Gospels or Acts; the date is not given, not even the time of year. The biblical reference to shepherds tending their flocks at night when they hear the news of Jesus’ birth (Luke 2:8) might suggest the spring lambing season; in the cold month of December, on the other hand, sheep might well have been corralled. Yet most scholars would urge caution about extracting such a precise but incidental detail from a narrative whose focus is theological rather than calendrical.

The most loudly touted theory about the origins of the Christmas date(s) is that it was borrowed from pagan celebrations. The Romans had their mid-winter Saturnalia festival in late December; barbarian peoples of northern and western Europe kept holidays at similar times. To top it off, in 274 C.E., the Roman emperor Aurelian established a feast of the birth of Sol Invictus (the Unconquered Sun), on December 25. Christmas, the argument goes, is really a spin-off from these pagan solar festivals. According to this theory, early Christians deliberately chose these dates to encourage the spread of Christmas and Christianity throughout the Roman world: If Christmas looked like a pagan holiday, more pagans would be open to both the holiday and the God whose birth it celebrated.

http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/new-testament/how-december-25-became-christmas/

Why people place so much importance in the birthday of Jesus is beyond me. You should be looking at the doctrines if you are a follower of Jesus and taking action on it. Lets say this is a tradition taken from the pagans. Okay, is that wrong? The Bible allows for tradition. Let's say you have your birth certificate misplaced when you were born. So parents just assumed when is the date. Sometimes there are instances that the baby is grown already when the parents register the birth certificate. Thus the actual birth of date is different from the date of registration. But does this knowledge makes you more righteous? Come on, Jesus said that 'Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ.' Its possible that what Luke has written was a misdirection. Actually with that thought, it is logical to write that Jesus was born in the manger to confuse people. Because as mentioned earlier, the father of Jesus has at least 12 legions of army.

Matthew 26
51 And, behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priest's, and smote off his ear. 52 Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. 53 Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels? 54 But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?