When is the exact date of birth of Jesus Christ?

Question

I am pretty sure that the months of the year were not known yet but at least at what period

Answer 1

April 18. 4 BC ------- This date is arrived at by the historical placement of the star of Bethlehem and the trip of the wise men. December 25 was actually a Pagan holiday that the early Chuch adopted as the day that his birth was celebrated.

Answer 2

Nobody knows. The months of the years were perfectly well known then. Through astronomical observation people had divided the year into the lunar calendar thousands of years before Christ.

The fact is that there isn't actually any concrete evidence that he actually existed. There is no record of his Crucifixion, and the census mentioned in the bible that lead to Mary and Joseph travelling to Bethlehem didn't happen. We have records of every other Roman census, but none for this one, ergot, it didn't happen. There are no contemporary reports of him being alive (by contemporary, I mean prior to his death).

However, it is likely, because of the rapid spread of Christianity, that it was based on a real individual. Scholars put the year of his birth at somewhere between 3 and 6 BC. By careful study of the Bible and what we know from pother sources about Judean life at that time, and adjustment for changes that have been made in the calendar since ancient times, it's likely he was born between February and April. There is no way of knowing the date, seeing as there is no record of his birth, life or death other than what was written afterwards.


NOTE: To the dude above me. AD doesn't stand for after death. It stands for Anno Domini, and refers to every year after the alledged birth of Jesus.

NOTE 2: Christmas time (Dec 25 approx) was the Germanic (Saxon, Norse, Jute etc) feast of Wodin (or Wodun, known to the Scandinavians as Odin, of course). It wasn't adopted into the Christian calendar untill sometime after the 9th century. Many of our Christmas traditions (tree decoration, the giving of gifts, the eating of a large bird, mumming etc.) are pagan traditions with no connection to Jesus at all.
It was a common practice the church adopted throughout Northern Europe. They would transfer Christian significance to pagan feasts and holidays and incorporate them into the Church calendar while simultaneously demonising the Pagan Gods. This is why our image of the devil is a horned, goat leged fellow (actually based on a benevolent woodland deity, known to the Greeks as Pan, but worshipped throughout Europe). The word Lucifer, for example, refers to a Roman deity who was the "bringer of divine light". Not very evil, if you ask me. In actual fact, there is almost no mention of the Devil, or Hell, in Christian literature prior to the 13th century. While the devil is mentioned in the Bible, it's important to note that this is merely a translation, translated in a way so that it's intended audience understood it. Where the devil is mentioned in the new Testament, it's debatable whether the original writers actually intended it to be taken as a supernatural force or an internal conflict within Jesus.
What is also interesting to note is that the common vision of hell has been borrowed wholesale from Dante's "Inferno", which was actually refering to purgatory, not hell.

Answer 3

It really does not matter the date or what time .....Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem Judea ..believe it or not The bible says Matthew 1:21 Jesus was born to save his people from their sins ..it does not matter who does not believe this. The facts remain and it is already done and it is so

Answer 4

Well lets see, this is 2006AD, He died at 33. So He was born 2039 years ago. Dates were figured as BC before Christ when official records started being kept, and AD after death.

Answer 5

It's speculated in Fall or Spring. I think May or April are the normal guesses. It's in 3/6 BCE. I think it's 3 BCE, and he died in 33 CE. (at the age of 36)

Answer 6

No one knows when. Though people say its in Dec. on the 25th the Bible doesn't say it any where. Basicaly people have picked the date on their own. So really Christmas shouldn't be a religious holiday.

Answer 7

My science book says in 1 A.D. but it also says it might have been 11B.C. The church says it's December 25Th right at midnight. Who knows?

Answer 8

we dont have the same months that they have so december didnt exist to them but, if you converted the day and month of the hebrew year to ours it would be december 25th.