Jesus birth date and death

[tuxcomputers]

How do Christian's reconcile the dates they celebrate for the birth of Jesus and his death?

25th December year in and year out we celebrate the birth of Jesus. So they were able to figure out his birthday. I have no problem with that... well apart from the story of shepherds being out and about at night in the middle of winter.

Now when it comes to his death it moves about years to year depending on the phase of the moon and what time the pope had a dump?

WTF? They had accurate timing for his birth but not his death?

There is ample evidence that they were co-opted from pagans rituals but what does the clergy have to say about the moon phase thing?

[frankiej]

They will never be able to get a date for any of it. So, they have to agree that there will be one day that they all celebrate such days.

Pinpointing the actual days would be ridiculous... It couldn't be done (maybe because he didn't exist in the first place )

Although, I don't know the reason for moving around Good Friday and Easter... I'm sure there is some silly excuse. Perhaps convenience of some kind.

[Rayaan]

See this:
Jesus was born, um, somewhere around this time

[KichigaiNeko]

Lunar and Solar calendars I am thinking frankiej same with the muslim holidays and the jewish ones as well.

[frankiej]

Ah ok, yes, that seems about right.

[KichigaiNeko]

meh... Give me the Celtic 8 fold year any day ...(a holiday every 6 weeks! )

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

25th December year in and year out we celebrate the birth of Jesus. So they were able to figure out his birthday. I have no problem with that... well apart from the story of shepherds being out and about at night in the middle of winter

Umm, actually December 25th is the winter solstice. The Christians stole it from the Roman god Deus Sol Invictus.(the invincible sun god) Jesus is thought to have been born in spring. Nobody knows in what year. I have no idea why it never occurred to anyone to just ask his mum.The year is estimated at between 7 and 4 bce. Similarly, Jesus' date of death is not recorded,which has always puzzled me.Saul and the Gospel authors had two calendars to use,the Jewish and the Roman,either would have been perfectly clear.

[thesummerqueen]

Easter has to happen some time around Passover since that was supposedly the setting of the last supper. Jewish calendars follow the lunar clock, not the solar one, as each day starts at sundown...much like the celts.

[Tiberius]

25th December year in and year out we celebrate the birth of Jesus. So they were able to figure out his birthday. I have no problem with that... well apart from the story of shepherds being out and about at night in the middle of winter.

Ignoring the already mentioned fact that Jesus was probably not born on December 25th, even if he were, it all went down in the Middle East, a place not really known for it's harsh winter nights...

In other words, the fact that shepherds were out at night in winter isn't really a problem with the story that you should be focusing on...

[Norfolk And Chance]

25th December year in and year out we celebrate the birth of Jesus. So they were able to figure out his birthday. I have no problem with that... well apart from the story of shepherds being out and about at night in the middle of winter

Umm, actually December 25th is the winter solstice. The Christians stole it from the Roman god Deus Sol Invictus.(the invincible sun god) Jesus is thought to have been born in spring. Nobody knows in what year. I have no idea why it never occurred to anyone to just ask his mum.The year is estimated at between 7 and 4 bce. Similarly, Jesus' date of death is not recorded,which has always puzzled me.Saul and the Gospel authors had two calendars to use,the Jewish and the Roman,either would have been perfectly clear.

December 21st is the winter solstice.