2006-12-12 15:02:23 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Dear Diedre H,
One shouldn't be too fast to jump to conclusions. My question is not to disprove Christianity. I am a Christian.
2006-12-15 07:30:04 · update #1
Hippolytus' (c. 202) in a commentary on Daniel says that Jesus was born at Bethlehem on December 25, a Wednesday, in the forty-second year of Augustus. The Bible itself doesn't give a birthdate though.
2006-12-12 15:13:56 · answer #1 · answered by thundercatt9 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-26 00:06:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have only heard 1 specific date actually mentioned as a possible theoretical date and that was September 15th, 6BC. This date was based on Census records, tax records, and astronomical data relating the the stellar phenomena that could have accounted for the "Star" of Behtlehem.
Other than that it has been thought that he could also have been born in either march or june...again from that same data depending on which occurance of the pehnomena coinceded with his actual birth.
2006-12-12 15:11:25 · answer #3 · answered by kveldulf_gondlir 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's believed that Jesus was born in the Fall of the year, no day given and approximately 2 B.C.
Jesus was 33 1/2 years of age at his death making his birth somewhere around September- October. If God had wanted us to have this information it would have been included in the Scriptures as God always gave a Day and Month he wanted his followers to celebrate.
2006-12-12 15:14:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Nobody knows for sure. The best estimates are sometime between September and October.
Does it really matter? If you're just hoping to disprove Christmas being in December, why not waste your time in a more productive fashion. Christians have as much right to celebrate Christmas as Pagans do to Solstice, as any other religion or non religion has the right to celebrate or not, in their own fashion.
Just for fun,
October 974th, 4,500,000,000 P.S.E (Post solidification of Earth)
2006-12-12 15:10:37 · answer #5 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
April 6, and the year is probably 1 A.D. or 2 A.D.
2006-12-12 15:40:44 · answer #6 · answered by Rainfog 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nobody knows the exact date. Sometime in the spring or summer, though.
2006-12-12 15:06:37 · answer #7 · answered by ....... 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I had a good answer to that question. Web site: http://www.asa3.org/ASA/topics/Astronomy-Cosmology/S&CB%2010-93Humphreys.hotml . I hope I wrote that correct.
2006-12-12 15:07:38 · answer #8 · answered by t_a_m_i_l 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I heard it was in the fall -- about September.
2006-12-12 15:07:32 · answer #9 · answered by WonderWoman 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How should we know? The Bible doesn't even claim to tell us. We Christians just kinda decided to hijack the pagan holiday we now know as Christmas, and Christianize it. I dunno why or when though.
2006-12-12 15:07:37 · answer #10 · answered by Viki 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋