The 100-Year Old Mistake About the Birth of Jesus
by Jimmy Akin
Filed under Historicity, The Incarnation
You know how people often say that Jesus was born in 4 B.C., 6 B.C., 7 B.C., or a time earlier still? The calculations that lead to these dates are all based on a proposal that was made just over a hundred years ago. But now scholars are challenging this proposal, because it looks like it's wrong. And it's been distorting our understanding of when Jesus was born for over a hundred years. Here's the story. . . . When Herod Died The Gospel of Matthew records that Jesus was born during... Read More
