Men of letters, men with Ph.D.s from time to time discussed the birth of Jesus Christ. They studied, studied ancient writings, researched and conducted research, which can be exhaustive from the perspective of the terrestrial globe. Ancient writers, those who claim to write the events of the time as they saw them happen, might have done so with a touch of insight. They are human beings. What applies to someone does not apply to everyone. This implies why Jesus would remind the Jews that Moses made some laws out of his perception of who or what they were at the time in that regard.
December 25 is the day on which Christians, those who believe in Jesus Christ, celebrate his birth. My interest in this matter arose so strongly after following the agreement and disagreement of some Ph.D. men. The men who are columnists in Nigeria’s national dailies I hold in deep respect: Dr. Femi Aribisala, Dr. Adesina Adedipe, and Dr. Douglas Anele. There was also Professor Enoch Adeboye. Mathematics teacher and now serving general overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God. These scholars entertained themselves with the immensity of their knowledge, which was great, but can knowledge only be acquired from the university? They discussed the weather and the seasons, shepherds could go out with their sheep, mathematicians were on the task of adding, subtracting numbers and aligning events of the time with the dates of important events that had happened. The work of the brain is piecework with insufficiencies. Bound by space and time, he cannot grasp eternity and infinity. Great inventors like Orville and Wilbur Wright never went through the ivory tower. Britain’s wartime prime minister, Winston Churchill, with limited classroom education, handled what a more erudite prime minister like Neville Chamberlain might not have been able to handle. After all, the disciples of Jesus were not as wise as the scribes. They were the simple people and it implies that the art of knowledge is for everyone. The intellect sheds light, but each being must carry within the will for good, but it comes with the earthly limitation.
Some say that December 25 was the date set by the pagans in honor of the sun god. That could be Zeus. Other dates of celebration by Christians have been attributed to some pagan tradition. December 25 is the crux of the matter, which has left some sane minds wondering if the sun god owns it. This is something that many, if not all, of these literati have not thought about. My father, like the former president of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, never knew his birth date because his parents never knew what was Monday or Friday, January or December. They never went to school. After a look at the official documents for him, what I see on anyone that lists his date of birth is “Around 1936”. A British chaplain under whom he worked, the one who baptized him and named him Martin made the estimate. I could pick any day to celebrate the day he was born and that leaves me wondering what someone would say if he picks December 25th. A friend of mine, a retired soldier who is now a born again Christian and like my father does not know his birth date. There was a day these men were born and he celebrates the date he believed and followed Christ as his birthday. It could be December 25.
On December 25, Christians do not celebrate or honor a sun god. Whatever led up to December 25, either by choice or because Jesus was actually born on that date, it could have been June or July or whatever date was chosen if it was by choice. The bottom line is that there was a day he was born and whatever the date, it is the birth of Christ celebrated.
The ancient script, which is the seat of your search for knowledge, agreement or disagreement of the birth of Jesus, came in one language and passed through languages thousands of years now and possibly extinct. Translations can, at best, be approximate, as it never supersedes the original.
There are those who see the story of Jesus as a mother story as an invention. Such people could be enslaved in the earthly intellect. They may not realize that thoughts are spiritually formed realities that become forms. Similar thoughts can attract. Thoughts for good and progress can become fact and influence someone of like mind. The world is full of thoughts. The thoughts of a man like Jesus aspire to the light.
The intellect in the perspective capacity of the brain looks for what has already been done without realizing its limited capacity. There are things that the eyes cannot see just as there are things that the brain cannot be aware of, but they are there because they are etheric or spiritual and are united by the power of a life current. Scientific instruments invented by man with the work of the brain make it possible to see what cannot normally be seen or an audio device to hear what cannot normally be heard. These prefabricated things are not limited in time and space. Whether Jesus was born on any date or not, at least it is a thought formed by the spirit and the spirit takes shape.