Jesus died at 33. Nimrod was king around the time that Jesus supposedly was born. Shephards didn't go out in the winter to herd sheep, but yet they just happened to be out there when He was born.
2007-05-03 13:26:28 · 31 answers · asked by Tboogie 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Thats impossible to answer. Jesus never gave his birthday in the bible probably because he didn't intend for it to be mindlessly celebrated.
2007-05-03 13:29:32 · answer #1 · answered by J R 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Everything you stated in your question is largely correct. Shepherds in Palestine were not in the fields until Spring. Jesus was crucified around 33 A.D. (maybe a year or two earlier or a year or two later). Jesus was probably born between 4 B.C. and 1 A.D.
The Bible is silent as to the exact day, month, and year of Christ's birth or death. (Also, the calendar has changed since biblical times.) No one can tell you Jesus' exact birthday. Many scholars believe December 25th was selected as the day by the early Christian church in order to have a major holiday to compete with Pagan celebrations that occurred around that time. The intention was to both compete with other religions and to take care of the "common folk."
(The following is a vast over simplification of history.) Mid-winter celebrations were especially important to agrarian societies because that was the time the lords allowed the peasants to take food from centrally-stored facilities. The lords did not think the peasants were smart enough to manage their own food supply between harvests. So the lords kept half of the food and held it away from the peasants until mid-winter. When it was released, there were huge celebrations, and every religion sought to show how beneficent it was during that time by attaching a holiday to the release of food needed to keep the populace alive.
It was marketing to select December 25th as Jesus' birthday.
Before everyone starts a "flame war" about what I just wrote, think on this: if you believe in a messiah AND you believed what the lords believed about the peasants, and you do not know that messiah's birthday, and you believe that messiah can and will save the entire world if he was just given the chance, then why would you NOT place the messiah's birthday at the time when the food was to be released to the people? In other words, it was not just competition with other religions that caused December 25th to be selected;. It was also a way to make sure the converts were properly fed and could survive.
All that being said, does it really matter as to the exact date of the Messiah's birth?
2007-05-03 18:58:34 · answer #2 · answered by mcmufin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nobody knows for certain. Some have made the claim using dubious calculations and evidence that it was late December, but these are not typically considered extremely reliable sources.
I've seen estimates that it was in the Spring or in the Fall. The general concensus though is that it wasn't in the middle of the rainy season.
Many people believe the December date for the birth of the Christian God is merely a continuation of the celebration of the birth of the God at the solstice. Does the actual date of the birth of Christ matter, or should it? The point is that for centuries, the birth of the God had been celebrated for centuries. It is not inconceivable that the same date woud have been used. This doesn't necessarily make the Christian celebration any less Christian; they are simply sharing the same date for a similar holiday as the Pagans were.
If one doesn't know the actual date of an event, but wishes to celebrate it anyway, what difference does it make as to the date chosen for the celebration?
2007-05-03 13:41:06 · answer #3 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Best consensus to this point sometime in April of 4 BC. Dec. 25 was appropriated from the pagan observances around the winter solstice of Dec. 22.
Where was Nimrod king? The only Nimrod I know was before Noah.
2007-05-03 13:37:03 · answer #4 · answered by Tommy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was not born on Dec 25th. Christmas was put there because of the Winter Solstice which was celebrated by pagans long before the Christians came and was called the Festival of Lights. According to diferent sholars he was born in Spring or Fall I'm not sure which but he definately wasn't born on Dec 25th I know that for a fact.
2007-05-03 13:35:26 · answer #5 · answered by skull_on_concrete;-P 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Much evidence exists. If God intended for us to celebrate Christ’s birthday, He would have had the scriptures record the time of His birth, as well as the location. The exact date is not known, yet evidence points to an autumn birth.
Luke 2:8 provides the first indication, as flocks were still in the fields at night. The flocks were brought in for the winter season of mid-October to mid-March.
Another indication is the fact that Jesus was born six months after John the Baptist (Luke 1:24-26, 36). The question then becomes, when was John the Baptist conceived? Because Zacharias’ priestly functions were carried out during the course of Abijah, at the time of the angel’s appearance (Luke 1:5-20), John’s conception occurred in mid-June, as verses 23-24 indicate. Thus, he would have been born in about mid-March. Therefore, Christ’s birth had to be in early autumn.
There is one additional clue. At the time of Christ’s birth, the area of Jerusalem was very crowded with visitors, because of the celebration of the Feast of Tabernacles. People took advantage of this journey to Jerusalem to pay their taxes (see Luke 2:1-5), as they were collected at this time of the year. Leviticus 23:24-40 proves that the seventh month was the time in question. When we combine Luke 2:1-5 and John 7:2-10 we see evidence of Jesus’ parents traveling to Jerusalem for the spring and fall Holy Days.
While there is virtually no evidence of Christ being born on December 25, there is abundant evidence of an early autumn birth. The world celebrates Christ’s birth in a winter pagan “season,” when, in fact, our Savior was born during a fall festival season that actually pictures the salvation of mankind.
also read these articles
http://www.thercg.org/questions/p002.a.html
http://www.thercg.org/books/ttooc.html
2007-05-03 13:34:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
PS: Thats Herod not Nimrod. Nimrod was the first king of Babel.
Nobody knows for sure the birth of Jesus. Shephards is a good point.
2007-05-03 13:33:07 · answer #7 · answered by n_007pen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably in March since his symbol was the fish or pesces or Pisces and the month of the fish is March. April is the month of the Ram or the sacrificial lamb. It is either March or April, but more people associate the fish with Yashu'a than they do a Ram.
Herod was king during the time of the birth of Yashu'a. Nimrod was king during the time of the building of the tower of Babel.
2007-05-03 13:46:39 · answer #8 · answered by yaknow 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If interested do a lot more in depth research on this matter - fact is Jesus was @ 40 years old at the time of his death, 33 is a number that has been passed around I would say for the children.
2007-05-03 13:32:02 · answer #9 · answered by S.O.S. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nicely allow us see, If I remember perfect Jesus develop into 33 and a nil.5 even as he develop into killed. If one does the mathematics in this then we can discover out and observe that December the twenty fifth isn't his birthday, in reality he develop into born a even as between October and mid September if my memory is sweet. So in answer on your question, he will be getting not something because that is not his Birthday and for this reason we fairly do not comprehend if he celebrated it both.
2016-12-05 07:46:37 · answer #10 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was not born on Dec.25.He was born about October, a time of year when shepherds kept their flocks out of doors at night(Luke 2:8-12).But he didnt asked his deciple to celebrate his B-day instead the day of his death(Luke 22:19,20).
2007-05-03 13:38:11 · answer #11 · answered by faith 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋