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Dec 3, 2010 · One of the amazing things to me is the fact Jesus was possibly conceived on Dec. 25 and born around Sept. 25. I Jewish and hopefully in most Christian’s faith life begin at conception.
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The Miraculous Conception of Krishna. As Jesus was born in a lowly manger and Romulus and Remus were raised by a she-wolf, the Hindu deity Krishna was born in a prison cell. But the similarities between Krishna and Jesus go further.
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- The Date of Jesus' Birth
There are many puzzling details about the birth of Jesus, including the season, the year, the Star of Bethlehem, and the census of Augustus. Dates for the birth of Jesus often hover around the period from 7-4 B.C., although the birth could be several years later or possibly earlier. The Star of Bethlehem could be the bright celestial phenomenon sho...
By the 4th century, historians and theologians were celebrating a winter Christmas, but it wasn't until 525 that the year of Jesus' birth was fixed. That was when Dionysius Exiguus determined Jesus was born 8 days before a New Year's day in the year 1 A.D. The Gospels provide us with clues that Dionysius Exiguus was wrong.
According to Colin J. Humphreys in "The Star of Bethlehem—a Comet in 5 BC—and the Date of the Birth of Christ," fromQuarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Jesus was probably born in 5 B.C., at the time the Chinese recorded a major, new, slow-moving comet—a "sui-hsing," or star with a sweeping tail in the Capricorn region of the sky. T...
The Star of Bethlehem was first mentioned in Matthew 2:1-12, which was likely written around A.D. 80 and was based on earlier sources. Matthew tells of the magicoming from the East in response to the star. The magi, who were not called kings until the 6th century, were probably astronomer/astrologers from Mesopotamia or Persia where, because of a s...
Assuming the Star of Bethlehem was a comet, there were 3 possible years, 12, 5, and 4 B.C. By using the one relevant, fixed date in the Gospels, the 15th year of Tiberius Caesar (A.D. 28/29), at which time Jesus is described as "about 30," 12 B.C. is too early for the date of Jesus' birth since by A.D. 28 he would have been 40. Herod the Great is g...
Humphreys deals with most of the problems associated with the 5 B.C. dating, including one not strictly astronomical. He says the best-known censuses of Augustus occurred in 28 and 8 B.C., and A.D. 14. These were for Roman citizens only. Josephus and Luke 2:2 refer to another census, at which the Jews of the area would have been taxed. This census ...
From all these figures, Humphreys deduces that Jesus was born between March 9 and May 4, 5 B.C. This period has the added virtue of including the year's Passover, a most propitious time for the birth of a Messiah.
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Dec 22, 2021 · Transformed from a scene of a child born in extreme poverty to a beautiful decoration, the story of Jesus’ birth is changed from an act of humility and love to an opportunity for Christmas photos. This beauty makes it easy to forget the reality of Jesus’ birth.
Dec 22, 2018 · December 22, 2018 / Comments Off. As a mother, I have often wondered about Mary and what it must have been like to be Jesus’ mother. He was the perfect child, without sin. Surely Mary must have had the easiest parenting job ever… right? I don’t think so. Let me explain why.
Dec 22, 2019 · Forty-one days after Jesus’ birth, Mary and Joseph took Him to the Temple in Jerusalem six miles north of Bethlehem where He was consecrated to the Lord, and Mary offered a sacrifice for her purification (Luke 2:22–24; Leviticus 12:1–4).
The most familiar artistic depictions of the birth of Christ include the full cast of characters from the New Testament infancy narratives: the father Joseph and the mother Mary, a swaddled baby lying in a manger, shepherds, and angels. Yet the oldest known representations (from around 320 C.E.) focus primarily on the arrival of the magi.
