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2006-06-19 08:04:04
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answer #1
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answered by byefareed 5
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Scripture doesn't mention Jesus's birthdate or any christians celebrating His Birthday. The only birthday mentioned besides Pharoah is the heathen king Herod. "Christmas" means "mass of Christ"; the celebration coexisted in Rome before there was any in Jerusalem. The early Roman Church however did establish a pagan festival that (Jer.10) coexisted with Jesus's Birth and that was the birthday of the sun god. (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th ed., article: "Christmas"). The Catholic sources admit that Christmas didn't co-exist with the earliest festivals. Jesus wasn't born Christmas; even scripture makes this evident. "On the night of Jesus's birth, the shepherd's were still keeping watch over their flocks." (Luke 2:8). The rainy season in Ancient Israel began after the Feast of Tabernacles which generally is early October. In November, it would be cool and wet; the flocks from the pasture had already been brought and kept in winter quarters by the shepherds. This tells us the shepherds were no longer in the fields at night. Another peice of evidence is overlooked is in Luke 1:35-36; it tells us John the Baptist was born to Mary's cousin Elizabeth six months before Jesus. And as we look further in verse 5-17, we see Zacharias an elderly priest burning incense on the altar and then an angel appearing to him and telling him that he and his wife would have a son to prepare Christ's Way. We know however when this announcement was made by the angel because of Zacharias was "of the course of Abijah" Please look at 1Chron.24:1-19; it tells us that King David divided these priests into 24 "courses" that served in the temple by rotation. The Course of Abijah would be the 8th of the 24 courses which usually would occur around the end of May. Pentecost came the week after the 8th course served and he had to serve all 24 courses during the three festival seasons. So Zacharias came home approximately after the first week of June; in which John the Baptist was conceived around mid-June and 9 months later would be his birth. John Baptist's birth came around mid-March while Jesus's was around mid-September. Also notice every year people claim 3 wise men seen Jesus in a stable; is this really true? The Bible nowhere states "3 wise men" or "that the wise men visited Jesus in a stable". Read for yourself: (Matt.2:11); these Magi came from the east beyond the Euphrates River which in the 1st century was called the Parthian Empire (the eastern border of the Roman Empire).
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2006-06-19 08:36:19
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answered by KNOWBIBLE 5
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Fact: the supposed date of birth for Jesus was during an impossible time frame. According to the Fiction, Titled, The New Testament, Jesus was born when Herod was King of Judea. who History reports as having died by 6 BC.
Quirinius was gov of Syria, approx 9 CE and Ceasar ruled Rome, from where he supposedly issues a edit to tax the whole world....which account has never been validated from history review of Roman records. Furthermore, any such ruling as reported in the New Testament, that required every head of family to register at some family home city, would have thrown the entire Judean districts, already areas of severe contention from Parthinian war groups, into such a mass of confusion that no soldiers would have been able to be sent to quell the incipient invaders.
Fact: there was never a time span for all three of those rulers, which overlapped. Just one more of the many NT errors.
2006-06-19 08:38:20
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answer #3
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answered by Laughingwalt 3
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The Bible does not give the date of Jesus birth, but I found this information interesting:
If you were to read this account to the average Israeli today and ask him what time of year this could be, he would likely answer, “Sometime between April and October.” Why? The answer is simple. From November to March is the cold, rainy season in Israel, and December 25 is certainly in the wintertime. Shepherds would not be living out-of-doors, keeping watch over their flocks in the fields at night. Bethlehem, where Jesus was born, is located in the higher elevations and is just a few miles from Jerusalem. Even in years when the weather is less extreme, it is quite cold there at night during the winter.
2006-06-19 08:10:18
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answer #4
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answered by izofblue37 5
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No one knows that exact birth date of Christ...but we do know that he was born either in the early or late summer. The "birth date" of Christ was moved to correspond with the Celtic Pagan Tradition of Yule or otherwise known as the winter solstice, or the birth of the sun god.
2006-06-19 08:01:56
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answer #5
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answered by Poppet 3
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Nobody really knows what day Jesus Christ was born, but it was close around December 25.
2006-06-19 08:02:37
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answer #6
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answered by Mrs. Storm 3
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Luke chapter 1 will answer that question.
The holidays mentioned there were done at a specific time of the year. this is you base on knowing when Jesus was conceived and born.
2006-06-19 08:17:41
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answer #7
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answered by LP S 6
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No one knows specifically when the exact date of his birth was, but many speculate it was Spring time instead of Winter.
2006-06-19 08:01:08
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answer #8
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answered by Anonymous
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no one knows when Jesus was born, but we do know that he died on the first night of the passover Nisan 14. Jehovah God would of told us when he was born. but it was more important to tell us when Jesus died. the Shepard's where outside with the sheep, so it was not wintertime.
2006-06-19 10:48:00
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answered by lover of Jehovah and Jesus 7
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