When was Jesus Christ born ?

cherepes

Nobody knows for sure the exact date or year. The year is generally accepted to be between 0 an 4 AD.


Cherepes

dwalex

It is true that the exact date is not known. If you look closely at the early years of Christ in the Bible, king Herod ordered the death of all babies under age 2 so as two extinguish this "baby King of the Jews" he had heard of. King Herod's death is listed in my study Bible as between 4bc & 2bc. So this means that Jesus was born at least a year or so before King Herod died then Jesus must have been born 3-5 years before Jesus was born!!!!! What seems to have happend is that when the monk made the Christian Calander, he made a human mistake. There is also evidence that Jesus was born in warmer months and not in December when we celibrate Christmas as his birthday. All very interesting but certainly not answering you question!!!
Have a great day,
dwalex

chabat

How do you start a new thread? I don't see any button like the help desk says...??

earthpages

[glow=red,2,300]Chabat[/glow] click on the "Spirituality" folder icon, top left of this thread, then you should see where to ask a new question

chaz1797

You know traditionally hey say it was Dec 25 of what year I don't know and it would be nice to really say this was the date, but I celebrate his birth on the 25th of the month since that is what has been instilled in me threw my family and catholic school.........so hope you find your answer.........Best of luck and God bless

Chaz ???

juanruiz

Christians celebrate the Nativity on Dec 25 because that was originally the Winter Solstice. In other words, they "borrrowed" a pagan holiday. As for what year, the only two gospels to mention it don't agree. Herod did die in 4 BCE, so Matthew's version would put the birth somewhere in that time frame. Luke has Jesus born during the Great Census of Augustus, which took place in 6 CE. Since both stories were invented nearly a century after the event, it's likely they're both wrong.

Starman

Your accusations that the Gospels were invented and that they were written at the late date you mention are merely your personal opinion and should not be presented as indisputable fact.


http://www.saint-mike.org/Apologetic...00920Sean.html


http://www.gotquestions.org/when-Gospels-written.html

http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/14452.htm

Fr_Chuck

Actually it was not borrowed, but forced. What was happening , you have to remember Christianity was a "outlaw" religion and you could be killed for being one. So when the Christians were not celebrating the winter Solstice they looked out of place. And if they tried to celebrate other Christian holidays on days when the non Christians were not celebrating, they stood out also.

So Christians took non religoius holidays and used their times for Christian holidays. This way the Christians could have thier celebratons and not stand out and be arrested. I don't have my history book here but it is taught in Catholic history, the first Bishop of Rome to proclaim this celebratoni in the church is even listed.

It is funny how people who don't study and learn the truth, want to twist it to make it appear christians accepting incorrectly.

As for the actual birth date, birthdays were not celebrated in the early Jewish history, it was just antoher day, no celebraton at all. But by the bible it would have been in the spring.