I would like to also suggest the reason so many pagan religious have so many “common factors” with the Christ story is not because the Christ Story was stolen or taken from the pagans.. but rather because Christ was prophesied from the very beginning all the way back in the garden. The fact they all have many of the same elements demonstrates as common source thread. Not to mention the wise men from the east who took 2 years to get there a time that could have spanned the distance all the way to China…literally….in the Nativity story were not Jews…wonder where they got their ideas from too? The similarities were not borrowed from the pagans but rather the pagans corrupted God’s instruction from the very beginning God had already destroyed man kind once for it…It is no wonder that God referenced the Egyptian resurrection of the dead ceremony in Ezekiel 29:21 ..umm…wonder where the Egyptians got That idea from?...God did no borrow from the Egyptians or pagans .. nor did Christianity borrow from the pagans….make no mistake, God was correcting them and Christanity too what was theres from the beginng...….Note: Micah 4:2 as already discussed we can only demonstrated from scripture a December birth……Dec 25 is certainly consistent with the rest of the text as well……no reason to accuse Christians of “stealing” our own prophetic stories ....?!