Does any one believe that there is no specific date of birth of Jesus Christ?

Question

Some say that Jesus was born on January or even at the middle of the year. December 25 is assigned by a pope to be Christmas day. Are there any theories on this? There are scholars who says that there wasn't any snow during the birth of Christ.

Answer 1

april is the general belief amonst scholars
due to the sheep in the field and position of stars etc

Answer 2

The approximate time of year for Jesus' birth is calculated by using Luke's account of Zachariah serving in the Temple during the course Abia (Abijah). John (the Baptist) would have been born 9 months later, and Jesus born 6 months after that. Since the course Abijah served twice a year for one week, 6 months apart, Jesus would have been born either late March/early April or late September/early October. Obviously there is much debate about which.

Answer 3

Don't matter if there was snow or not. At midnight in the manger it'd be 30 degress or colder.

What shepards go out on a night like that!

There was also no census in December on record anywhere, hence the Biblical discription of why Joseph and Mary were there woiuld be inaccurate.

There ARE tax records from that era and ALL census and taxes were done between February and April.

More importanly, how come the date of his death and ressurection keeps changing year to year. Go to a grave yard and read the head stones.

Answer 4

Jesus was born on a specific date, unfortunately no one knows what it is.
The reason for the December 25 designation, was to solve a problem the Church was having with pagans who insisted on celebrating the winter solstice (now December 21.) The Church considered this a blasphemy and tried for years to quell the celebration, but never could.
Finally, someone got the idea of assigning Jesus' birthday to the date - and the Church now took it over.

Answer 5

Most scholars put the birth of Christ in the Spring. Snow in the middle east isn't something you see dude. I have yet to see a scholarly report that mentions snow with the birth of Christ. What difference does it make anyway?

Answer 6

You need a scholar to tell you there wouldnt be snow at a birth in the middle east?

We know its not december 25th. That was a pagan holiday called the return of the invincible sun. Christians overtook it so they could convert them. I think Jesus was born sometime in April in about 4BC

Answer 7

I believe there is a specific date of birth for Jesus Christ. He had to be born sometime.

Answer 8

There is rarely ever any snow in that portion of the Middle East. You're confusing our holiday traditions with the Gospoel narative, and the two have little to do with each other.

It is a fact that there is no documented time for the birthday of Jesus, and Catholic authorities have admitted that Dec. 25th was selected to co-opt the pagan Solstice festivals.

Answer 9

Obviously, there is a specific date of birth of Jesus Christ but it is not given in the Bible and therefore, God does not endorse the celebrating of it. Jesus Christ in now a king in heaven--why make statues and pay homage to him as a baby?? REJOICE and serve him as your king. Soon, he will turn his attention to cleanse the earth of all wickedness. Will you be ready?

Answer 10

He was born in Israel, and it never snows there.

Jesus was obviously born on a specific date, but we just don't know what date it was. They didn't have the calendar then that we do now.

Answer 11

Well, one hint at when it was .The Shepherds were out in the field at night.In the winter they corral their sheep in Manger Caves at night to keep them warmer.probably it was early fall around the Jewish "Feast of Trumpets".That seems to correlate with the birth of John the Baptist 6 months earlier.That has to do with when his father Zaccarias was working in the temple during his "course".