The birth of Jesus was a divine intervention, the moment God Himself stepped into our world as a baby. Now this, in itself, is a gift beyond measure, a gift of love, grace, a gift of salvation ...

"The birth date of Jesus wouldn't have been considered significant ... co-opt (or to celebrate under the cover of) general pagan activities: Saturnalia, December 17 to 24; Sol Invictus on ...

Dec. 25 is not the date mentioned in the Bible as the day of Jesus’s birth; the Bible is actually silent on the day or the time of year when Mary was said to have given birth to him in Bethlehem.

Important aspects of the Christian canon are the Virgin Birth of Jesus from his mother, Mary, and Jesus’ death, which was the crucifixion. This brings up the question of how long he lived.

So what really happened at that so-called “first Christmas”? Firstly, the actual birth day of Jesus was not December 25. The date we celebrate was adopted by the Christian church as the ...

"I can't think of any New Testament scholar who takes [the Gospel accounts of Jesus's birth] to be historically reliable," said Fredriksen, a Boston University professor who specializes in early ...

To others, Christmastime is all of those things, plus a celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. But was Jesus actually born in December? And if he wasn't, why do Christians celebrate his birth ...

Dec. 24—Told in Matthew 1 and 2 and Luke 2, the story of the birth of Jesus Christ is greatly at odds with the grandiose Christmases that many Americans celebrate. But the Revs. Terry Wright and ...

It raises questions about the virgin birth of Jesus, even pointing to ancient evidence that Jesus might have been fathered by a Roman soldier, possibly by rape. But before I ask you about that ...