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Message: [QUOTE="mx547, post: 208348, member: 20697"] Quoted from "Nelson's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Bible Facts"; "We don't know the exact month and day when Jesus was born. The date of December 25 is not very likely. the church in Rome chose that day to celebrate his birth in the second or third century in order to obscure a thoroughly pagan holiday that was traditionally celebrated on that day. Earlier the Eastern Orthodox church chose to honor Christ's birth on January 6, Epiphany. But why set the date in the winter? The shepards would have been least likely to tend their flocks on the hillsides at that time. More likely, Jesus was born in the fall or spring". It also states that he was probably born in 4 B.C. [/QUOTE]