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Re: Was Jesus Really Born on December 25th?
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03/17/04 08:41 PM
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The Law states a man cannot become a priest until his thirtieth year. Jesus thus began his ministry when he turned thirty. We are taught his ministry was three and one half years.
If his ministry took him to his thirty three and one half year, and he was crucified at Passover week, Then simple logic says count back six months and you will have the time of his birth. In this case his birth took place at, or about the time of the feast of Tablernacles in the Fall. This would have made his birth date about the time of the 7th month, 16th day or 7 days after the day of atonement, in the time of Herod the Great, which according to Usshers Chronology which we use today, about the forth year before the common era.
Further because Conception was considered the sign of a free man, His period of conception fell about the time of Channucha, or rather the feast of Dedication the preveious year. (see John 10:22)
Would this be the 7th month of our present calendar?
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Re: Was Jesus Really Born on December 25th?
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01/07/06 08:30 PM
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It is an excellent time to witness to others, and be able to share the Good News about Jesus Christ. Why was the 25th chosen, and by whom who knows, but does it still represent the birth of Jesus Christ today? Not really, in fact its all marketing, and how much money can be made with sales, and hot promotional items. The thirst for knowing about Jesus and who He is is but a small factor, unless you go into the streets where the poor people are, and that intself is a different story, where they are actually more receptive to know about Christ. God Bless, Will
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Re: Was Jesus Really Born on December 25th?
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01/09/06 04:15 AM
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Jesus was probably not born on Dec 25. We got that date through either pagan or Jewish mythology (depending on if you want to follow the historians of the Dark Ages, who did the best with the material they had to work with, or modern scholars who have more information and evidence to work with).
While it is a good event to cellebrate, and since God did not give us an exact time to cellebrate it, we cellebrate when others in our culture celebrate.
Once again, the scholars say that it was probably in the spring or fall due to shephards being in the fields and more specifically (and I have not really looked at the evidence) probably the fall during the Feast of Tabernacales.
It is interesting that in the ministry of Jesus, in the book of John, Jesus did signs connected with temple feasts. With the exception of redemtion and the resurection, the greatest sign that Jesus gave was NOT connected to an Old Testament Feast, but to an intertestamental feast, Hannukkah who's context John ties the raising of Lazarus. We need to keep this in mind when we wish to snub the holidays that developed after the days that God commanded in the Old Testament.
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Re: Was Jesus Really Born on December 25th?
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10/14/06 08:11 PM
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After all these years on earth I am yet to see someone struck down dead for being wrong about the date of Jesus' birth. Why is is still an issue for Christians? Because worshiping anything that is PAGAN is evil. Peace and Grace David
The greatest want of the world is the want of men-- men who will not be bought or sold, men who in their inmost souls are true and honest, men who do not fear to call sin by its right name, men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole, men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.
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