“No one knows the day Christ was born” (J.N.D. Collected Writings, Vol. 18, page 191).
Clement, in the second century, called the speculations as to the date “superstitious.”
Origen, A.D. 245, ridiculed the idea and said it was “sinful.”
The Church of Rome, in the fifth century records, “No certain knowledge . . . existed.”
The New International Encyclopedia states: “It is unknown just when it originated . . . almost certain that December 25 cannot be the . . . [date].”
Christmas was first celebrated by the church at Jerusalem in A.D. 440. Later, “in the fifth century the Western Church [Rome] ordered it to be celebrated” (Americana Encyclopedia).