When was Jesus Born?

Question

According to http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/farrell_till/prophecy.html

Matthew said that Jesus was born in the reign of Herod, who died in 4 B. C. (2:1). Luke said that Jesus was born during the Syrian governorship of Quirinius, who was not even appointed to the position until 6 A. D. (2:2).

But it took me 60 seconds to find this website,
http://www.livius.org/he-hg/herodians/herod_archelaus.htm
to know the above website is wrong and unsubstaniated.

Thats me, an atheist, taking 60 seconds to debunk one paragraph on an atheist website.

Answer 1

now they are saying 3 ad, but why would that be right? who knows, the date isn't as important as what happened it is?

Answer 2

The Bible account in Luke2:2 states that "(this first registration took place when Quirinius was governor of Syria".It doesn't say that Jesus was born only that Joseph and Mary arrived there to register while he was governor.
Luke3:21-23 states "Jesus himself,when he commenced his work [right after being baptized],was about 30 years old".If we count back 30 years from Jesus' baptism in 29CE (and remember there is no zero year between the BCE and CE periods of reckoning),we will find that he was born in 2BCE.
Lending support to this date is the prophecy of the "seventy weeks of years".It indicates that the Messiah would be killed,thus, 'causing sacrifice and gift offering to cease'as no longer required in the middle of the 70th week(Dan9:27;Rom:6:14;
Heb.7:26-28).This means Christ's ministry was three and a half years long.It began at his baptism in 29CE and ended with his death at Passover time in 33CE.(Luke 22:7-20)Counting back 331/2 years (the length of Jesus' earthly life)also enables us to calculate the year of his birth as being 2BCE.
We can also calculate the month and day in which Jesus was born..
As just noted,Jesus died at Passover time,which was about April 1, 33CE(Mat.26:17-30).Since Christ was about 30 years of age when commencing his work and his ministry was three and half years long,he was 331/2 years old aroung Passover time,or about April 1,33CE.Christ would have been 34 years of age six months later,or about October 1.Again counting back,we must conclude that Jesus was born,not on December 25,but about October 1,in the year 2BCE.

Answer 3

Well it is known that the monk figuring out our calendar based on the birth of Christ was actuall off by:
1) the 4 years that Caesar Augustus reigned as Octavian(The monk used the roman emperors' rules as a guide.)
2) 1 year for the "0" year. IE if you go from -1 to 1 there is a 0 between them. Calendar years go 1BC to 1AD(whichis ano dominae, year of our lord not after death)with no zero.

THis would set the year of Jesus' birth at 5 BC.

Answer 4

If I have not mistaken, by the calculation of scientists, Jesus was born in mid April the year 0005.

Why april?
Jesus was born inside a hut where sheep kept in the night in Bethlehem. Researchers found that farm activities are only existed in the summer and summer in Bethlehem is around march till maybe october.
The bible says that there was a star that led the three kings to Jesus. At night, all stars are supposed move around together because of the rotation of the earth. But, in April, the planet Jupiter seems to move at the opposite direction from the other stars. So, Jupiter looked like stand still on top of the earth (on top of Bethlehem).

Why year 0005?
A lot of people tried to make calendars. One of them, I forgot who his name is, make a calendar that started when Jesus was born. So, if he had done his calendar right, Jesus would be born in the year 0000. But no, he made some mistakes. He counted the first year as the year 0001, not the year 0000. So, he missed one year. There're other mistakes that he made, but I forgot. Then, by the calculation of scientists, they predicted that Jesus was born in the year 0005.

Answer 5

Jesus was "born" in 325 bc when Constantine had two brothers, Judas Kristos and Rabbi Jesus ( both of whom led a revolt against the Roman occupiers) had these two men blended into one and then created a literary "apotheosis".
That's how dieties are made after all.

Answer 6

Why do you think you need to challenge the beliefs of these people?

You are more Christian in this respect than they are.

What are you so afraid of, that makes you think you need to prove something.

You obviously have some idea about their belief system that frightens you or you would see them as just being silly.

Of course you won't, or can't admit this because frightened people always pretend to themselves that they are just right about, not afraid of what they feel the need to attack.

Your slip is showing little one. Better cover it up before someone sees that you knees are knocking together.

Answer 7

A long time ago St. Denis the Poor at Math, figured it out, Badly as it turned out.

Some feel it could be as far back as 12 BC.

Answer 8

Why do you compare your atheists belief only with Christianity?
I knew that religion is an old story about God's children. (God have a parental system? so strange and illogical, isn't it )

Why dont you discover Islam? You believe science dont you?
In Quran, there is many scientific facts, see harunyahya.com.

Answer 9

Many scholars place it aropund 3 BC.

Answer 10

There are a ton of discrepancies in the bible. Greatest book of fiction ever wrote!