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- Welcome to The Rapid Bull, Daily Edition, where we provide a quick Biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. Merry Christmas! This is the time of year that we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, having been born on December 25th, in the year 0
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- AD. Is that right? Well, this is actually one of the myths of Christmas.
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- Jesus actually wouldn't have been born on December 25th, nor 0 AD. There are no references in the early documents of when
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- Jesus was born. The first we see any reference to trying to find a date for the birth of Christ was
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- Clement of Alexandria in the 3rd century. And he had several potential dates, none of them being
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- December 25th. Many people would think he would have been born more in the April timeframe, in the spring.
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- Now, the first record that we have of December 25th being a birth date of Jesus is the 4th century in an edition of a
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- Roman almanac. And that came out in 364 AD.
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- Now, it wasn't until Pope Julius I that the date was set, for at least the Western Christians, in the 4th century.
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- Some people say that this was a taking of a pagan holiday and making it a Christian one. But that ritual didn't start happening until the 7th century.
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- Now, was Jesus actually born in 0 AD? Well, no. From dating of times of events that we have historically, we would think that Jesus probably was born somewhere between 6
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- BC to maybe 3 AD. So the reality is
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- Jesus was probably born, most people think, around 3 BC. This podcast is part of the
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- Striving for Eternity ministry. For more content, or to request a speaker or seminar to your church, go to strivingforeternity .org
