When was Jesus Born

WHEN WAS JESUS BORN?: M. M. NINAN
Fifteen years ago when I started to study this subject there was not one
Christian organization or Scholar who supported the Christmas date of
December 25. I still had to see the early fathers and their witness as
there were no way of getting them and I have never seen one person
who agreed with my conclusions.
Wherever I went, I was reminded that it was a pagan holiday taken over
by the Roman Emperor Constantine to make Christianity palatable to
the Romans.
Ramsay MacMullen the Syriac bishop Jacob Bar-Salibi in the
12th century to substantiate it:
"It was a custom of the Pagans to celebrate on the same 25
December the birthday of the Sun, at which they kindled lights in
token of festivity. In these solemnities and revelries the
Christians also took part. Accordingly when the doctors of the
Church perceived that the Christians had a leaning to this festival,
they took counsel and resolved that the true Nativity should be
solemnised on that day."
It is not very far from that even today. For example here are a few
statements which I found on the web:
@ “This may be a shocking thought to some: but after wrestling with
the question for several years now, searching the scriptures and church
history, I have come to the conclusion that there is nothing Christian
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