Jesus, Everything About

Was Jesus was born on December 25^th?

< No.

In any event, the calendar date is not really the point of the matter. Eastern Christians celebrate His birth as late as the 8th of January. The calendar in use at the time is not the Gregorian, so it seems inconsequential. The date of December 25th in the West may or may not have been chosen to supersede the pagan feast celebrated on that day. It was common Christian practice in evangelization to usurp pagan feasts and worship places, to ease the conversion.

Is there any strictly human institution that lasted for a long time like 2000 years like Christianity?

<No. Only Christianity.

If Jesus is not God, how do you account for the unprecedented spread of Christianity throughout the world in a relatively short amount of time?

How about the voluntary martyrdom of numerous witnesses to the resurrection? If they didn't see it with their own eyes, they would know it's a lie and would not have given their lives for Him.

http://blogs.chron.com/thinkingchristian/2006/11/we_three_kings_1.html

>> Yes. Judaism

>> Yes. Buddhism.

How Do we Know that Jesus really did Heal People and do Miracles?

< STRONG Secular-sources of Jesus

There are several secular accounts of His existence. Josephus, Pliny the Younger, Tacitus, Lucian all mention the existence of Christ and other biblical characters.

< STRONG Talmud which was against Jesus acknowledged his miracles.

Talmud is a Jewish religious text that

a) acknowledges the existence of Jesus of Nazareth, whom many of the Jews hated and

b) proceeds to denigrate Jesus, saying that His miracles (notice that a book that despises Christ is affirming that He performed miracles) were the work of the devil, and

c) that today, Christ - a blasphemer - is suffering in hell in boiling hot excrement.

Funny that a book that is anti-Christian would acknowledge not only the existence but the miracles of Christ. And all this is just the tip of the iceberg.

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< Josephus

Josephus offers information about individuals, groups, customs and geographical places. His writings provide a significant, extra-biblical account of the post-exilic period of the Maccabees, the Hasmonean dynasty and the rise of Herod the Great. He makes references to the Sadducees, Jewish High Priests of the time, Pharisees and Essenes, the Herodian Temple, Quirinius' census and the Zealots, and to such figures as Pontius Pilate, Herod the Great, Agrippa I and Agrippa II, John the Baptist, James the brother of Jesus, and a disputed reference to Jesus. He is an important source for studies of immediate post-Temple Judaism (and, thus, the context of early Christianity).