In What Year Was Jesus Born?

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In What Year Was Jesus Born?

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Just interested to see people's thoughts. Feel free to Google to make your mind up.
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Year 0 :mrgreen:

Y'know, BC and AD and all that...
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John 8:58
58 Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.”


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John 5:24
24 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.


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4-6 BC - it was miscalculated at some stage I think. Haven't googled yet though.
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The 1st of NEVER!
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Maybe IceMobster is onto something. That is, since we all appear to have different answers, maybe be should divide up into the Church of Storyteller, the Church of Rick, the Church of Nicki, the Church of Philip and the Church of Kurieuo. ;) :P

I lean towards 1 BC for Jesus' human birth.
Both Luke and Matthew mention Jesus’ birth as occurring during Herod’s reign (Luke 1:5; Matthew 2:1). Josephus relates Herod’s death to a lunar eclipse. This is generally regarded as a reference to a lunar eclipse in 4 B.C. Therefore it is often said that Jesus was born in 4 B.C.

But physics professor John A. Cramer, in a letter to BAR, has pointed out that there was another lunar eclipse visible in Judea—in fact, two—in 1 B.C., which would place Herod’s death—and Jesus’ birth—at the turn of the era. Below, read letters published in the Q&C section of BAR debating the dates of Herod’s death, Jesus’ birth and to which lunar eclipse Josephus was referring. (Herod’s Death, Jesus’ Birth and a Lunar Eclipse)
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Kurieuo wrote:Maybe IceMobster is onto something.
What?

As for the OP, I'd say 7-5 BC, a few years before the death of Herod the Great.
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IceMobster wrote:
Kurieuo wrote:Maybe IceMobster is onto something.
What?
Protestants, or Christians, not agreeing... forming own denominations. :P
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Kurieuo wrote:
IceMobster wrote:
Kurieuo wrote:Maybe IceMobster is onto something.
What?
Protestants, or Christians, not agreeing... forming own denominations. :P
Oh, you mean concerning how I asked which denomination is the correct one?
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Yes, you should head up your own too, 7-5BCers. ;)
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