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It's Time For That question Again

Lewis

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So when was Jesus born ? What year and what month. I have seen some stuff narrow it down to the day' but we are not even going to go there. So what say ye ?
 
Lewis W said:
So when was Jesus born ?.... So what say ye ?
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A few years ago I was watering a Christmas cactus. As I did, I told the Lord that I thought that it would be really cool if it would bloom for His birthday. Ever since then it has never bloomed in December, but it has always bloomed in April. 8-)
 
Late Sept/early Oct., somewhere around The Feast of Tabernacles.

We/ve been discussing this in the Bible Study Forum.
 
Lewis W said:
So when was Jesus born ? What year and what month. I have seen some stuff narrow it down to the day' but we are not even going to go there. So what say ye ?
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We do not know exactly for sure. But it was most likely the beginning of Sept. after the harvest in the year 3 or 4 bc.

He was born when they traveled to pay their taxes. Most people then were farmers and they would have paid their taxes right after the harvest.

Of course the Hebrew Calander is different from the Greek Calender. But Bishop Ussher did all the the math on that about 500 years ago. He had books available to him then, that are no longer available to us now.

The Good Bishops 900 + page book is actually on line somewhere, I downloaded it and was reading it once. It is mostly a history book of the Hebrews and the Greeks for the last 6,000 years.
 
I agree with Vic, it was near the Feast of the Tabernacles around late September, early October. The Lord bless you, Lewis.
 
JohnR said:
We do not know exactly for sure. But it was most likely the beginning of Sept. after the harvest in the year 3 or 4 bc.

He was born when they traveled to pay their taxes. Most people then were farmers and they would have paid their taxes right after the harvest.

Of course the Hebrew Calander is different from the Greek Calender. But Bishop Ussher did all the the math on that about 500 years ago. He had books available to him then, that are no longer available to us now.

The Good Bishops 900 + page book is actually on line somewhere, I downloaded it and was reading it once. It is mostly a history book of the Hebrews and the Greeks for the last 6,000 years.
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John are you talking about Ushers annals of the world?
 
JohnR said:
...The Good Bishops 900 + page book is actually on line somewhere, I downloaded it and was reading it once. It is mostly a history book of the Hebrews and the Greeks for the last 6,000 years.
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Oooh, I'd be very interested in this... but 900 pages!?!? :o


8-)
 
When He was born pales in comparison that He was. And by virgin birth no less.
So we pick a day to celebrate. Could as well have been another day than that selected... makes no never mind to me the reason Dec 25th was chosen either. Likewise, the day pales in comparison in that a day was selected to celebrate the promise of our salvation.

But that's no fun is it? :P
Carry on. :-D
 
PotLuck said:
... But that's no fun is it? :P
Carry on. :-D
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You are correct sir, it's no fun. For me at least, it now seems pretty clear that the Lord left a trail to His birth in Luke. Why this escaped Rome is beyond me. Maybe they thought they would "bury the evidence" so to speak in lieu of choosing Dec. 25th. so they could "convert" pagens into their now official religion. There's strength in numbers, it's been said. ;-)
 
Now this is some heavy stuff.

BISHOP USSHER DATES THE WORLD: 4004 BC
James Ussher (1581-1656), Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of All Ireland, and Vice-Chancellor of Trinity College in Dublin was highly regarded in his day as a churchman and as a scholar. Of his many works, his treatise on chronology has proved the most durable. Based on an intricate correlation of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean histories and Holy writ, it was incorporated into an authorized version of the Bible printed in 1701, and thus came to be regarded with almost as much unquestioning reverence as the Bible itself. Having established the first day of creation as Sunday 23 October 4004 BC, by the arguments set forth in the passage below, Ussher calculated the dates of other biblical events, concluding, for example, that Adam and Eve were driven from Paradise on Monday 10 November 4004 BC, and that the ark touched down on Mt Ararat on 5 May 2348 BC `on a Wednesday'.
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/ussher.htm




Go to Google and type in Bishop Ussher' and a lot of stuff comes up. I am on my way back over there now. Because this stuff must be checked out.Because the narrowing down the Monday and Wednsday' Adam & Eve & the Ark touchdown thing' is making my head spin.
 
I have been studing the annals of the world by james usher for the past 3 years...It has been a hugh blessing to me and my walk.

He speaks of such things in history that took place from a secular point of view.
He speaks od the Darkness that swept over all the earth when Christ was crucified. He gets his info from other cuktures chronicles, He also speaks of the time that the world stood still for 12 hours and how other cultures speak of this extra long day.
aLONG with the book came a CD rom. I will load it up and print somethings from it...Cool stuff
 
No No your all wrong. It was December 25th 30 B.C


Just messing around :splat:


Actually I'm trying follow this topic because I have also wondered about when the Birth of Christ was. I was also told is was in the fall, but its never really been proven..
 
Atonement said:
No No your all wrong. It was December 25th 30 B.C


Just messing around :splat:


Actually I'm trying follow this topic because I have also wondered about when the Birth of Christ was. I was also told is was in the fall, but its never really been proven..
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And I hope you were' young man. But so you don't make that remark again. I am sending you to your room' and you are to stand in a corner' until' I say come out :D :-D
 
Lewis W said:
And I hope you were' young man. But so you don't make that remark again. I am sending you to your room' and you are to stand in a corner' until' I say come out :D :-D
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Not until the morning of Dec 25th right? :-D
 
Potluck I remember those days' as a little guy. And in the dark too. And whatever I did' I did not do it again. :D :-D
 
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