was Jesus really born on December 25?

[Knight-Dragon]

Nice to see so many new faces posting. Pls carry on.

 

[Tom|420]

Originally posted by Cullyn
The date will never be known, but we do have some rough ideas. The star of Bethlehem may have been a comet see in October of 3 or 4 BC. An English astronomer wrote a very good book on this, which tied the date down quite specifically. And naturally I can't bloody remember his name or the title of the book. I hate Wednesdays!

Some other specialists claim that events and locations described in the Bible at the time of Jesus where closer to 100 AD, in particular the temple where Jesus were going. A mistake of 100 years, in a time where there wasn't any fixed calendar, isn't that bad when you think of that afterall.

However, since the Bible was written sometime after those events happened it is quite possible that it's the ones who wrote the Bible who did the mistakes, possibly describing the events and locations of their time because they did not know how it really was 100 years ago.

The Bible aim was about the Message of the Christ. It is very possible that those who wrote it did not take a great care about the details, such as dates, exact locations and events. They put more care into the details regarding Jesus himself.

It's hard to discuss history surrounding the Bible and Jesus without hurting believers.

 

[Siggy]

He was born 17th april 7BC, according to a nice documentary on discovery.

Seriously, I don't have a clue. It isn't possible to trace the birthdate of the lad. You can launch hundreds of nice theories to prove that you are right claiming he is born on a certain date in a certain year, but you can't prove it. If I have to make a guess, he is born between 40 BC and 40 AD. Probably right if you asume he did excist.

 

[Archbob]

Originally posted by Mescalhead
He sure as sh!te didn't come in or out of the world in the year 0. I believe the possible years he was born in were either 6 CE or 14 CE, though that is off the top of my head. I also remember there being a 1 in 365 chance that he was born on Dec. 25.

Well thats because there was no year 0. He was born in 4BCE and died in 29AD.

 

[Lopex]

Chrismas has everybody confused nowadays.

I laughed my ass off when I read in the newspaper that Muslim people did not want a christmastree in their house because it is a christian symbol...

 

[Warman17]

Actually he was born on April 17(or was it 16), 6 BCE.

I saw it on the history channel back during christmas time. The dated astrological timeline backwards to when all the starts were exactally that in the bible.