@Reb4Ham
Actually 7 January is 13 days after 25 December, the difference will increase to 14 days in the year 2100 (when the Gregorian calendar does not have a leap year again, but the Julian calendar does).

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Jesus wouldn’t even have been born on Dec. 25 since his time predated the Gregorian calendar. Some orthodox sects celebrate Christmas on January 7th to correct for the shift from the Julian calendar.

Jesus wouldn’t even have been born on Dec. 25 since his time predated the Gregorian calendar. Some orthodox sects celebrate Christmas on January 7th to correct for the shift from the Julian calendar.

@Aperture_pony
The original feast day was celebrating the birth of the Sun God as it was the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year. It was sort of a rebirth of the sun sort of festival. And when Christianity took control of Rome, they essentially stole it by adapting their own object of worship to it as Christianity before that had no feast days. It was more or less a way of keeping a feast day from an older tradition rather than scraping it all together and possibly making a new one. This also draws a lot of things into perspective as the original feast day was honoring the Sun God (Jesus being the son of god) and then of course the halos in the vast majority of christian art which represents the sun.

[One] scholar has commented that, “while the winter solstice on or around December 25 was well established in the Roman imperial calendar, there is no evidence that a religious celebration of Sol on that day antedated the celebration of Christmas”.

Despite its popularity today, this theory of Christmas’s origins has its problems. It is not found in any ancient Christian writings, for one thing. Christian authors of the time do note a connection between the solstice and Jesus’ birth: The church father Ambrose (c. 339–397), for example, described Christ as the true sun, who outshone the fallen gods of the old order. But early Christian writers never hint at any recent calendrical engineering; they clearly don’t think the date was chosen by the church. Rather they see the coincidence as a providential sign, as natural proof that God had selected Jesus over the false pagan gods.

An explicit expression of this theory appears in an annotation of uncertain date added to a manuscript of a work by 12th-century Syrian bishop Jacob Bar-Salibi. The scribe who added it wrote: “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.”

There are problems with this popular theory, however, as many scholars recognize. Most significantly, the first mention of a date for Christmas (c. 200) and the earliest celebrations that we know about (c. 250–300) come in a period when Christians were not borrowing heavily from pagan traditions of such an obvious character.

as the original feast day was honoring the Sun God (Jesus being the son of god)