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How old is Jesus?

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Here's a trivia question for you all.

If Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Jesus, how old would He be today?


No politics, no religion. Just age. :d

Note; December 25th 2009 is 'A.D.'



Bill
 
Well considering no one (alive) knows exactly when he was born... :mixedsmi:

Have fun with the guesstimates.
 
Weird enough Jesus was born 4 BC, so it would have become 2013.

But their are quite some differences between the Gospel by Mattheus and Lucas. So who can be sure.....

Cheers,
Huub
 
I watched a History Channel show about this recently that was interesting. Since we know that King Herod was alive when Jesus was born, and we think Herod died in what we now call 6 or 7 BC, due to the fact that the guy who invented the current calander system we use today made several mistakes. So, 2015 or 1017?

EDIT: What Huub said... :d
 
PRB said:
I watched a History Channel show about this recently that was interesting. Since we know that King Herod was alive when Jesus was born, and we think Herod died in what we now call 6 or 7 BC, due to the fact that the guy who invented the current calander system we use today made several mistakes. So, 2015 or 1017?
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The Herodes who was Tetrach during the life of Jesus was Herodes Antipas, who lived from 20 BC - 39 AD. He was the son of Herodes the Great, who died 4 BC.

Huub
 
As with the answer to all trivia questions - it depends which web page you visit.
 
Its a difficult question, eh?

The advent of leap year entries to compensate a perfect time line can be a factor.

How old was he when he was on the cross. 33? 36?



Bill
 
mariereid said:
33, or am I wrong about that, too?
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I believe you are correct MarieReid.


Here is a quote;

We do not know for sure the exact age of Jesus when He was crucified, but He was probably 33 years old. Here is the argument. Jesus was baptized. But the reason He was baptized was to "fulfill all righteousness," (Matt. 3:15). He had to fulfill the legal requirements for entering into the priesthood after the order of Melchizedek (Psalm 110:4; Heb. 5:8-10; 6:20). Priests offered sacrifice to God on behalf of the people. Jesus became a sacrifice for our sin (1 Pet. 2:24; 2 Cor. 5:21) in His role as priest. To be consecrated as a priest, Jesus had to be: 1) washed with water - baptism - (Lev. 8:6; Exodus 29:4, Matt. 3:16). 2) Anointed with oil - the Holy Spirit - (Lev. 8:12; Exodus 29:7; Matt. 3:16). Additionally, He may have needed to be 30 years old, Num. 4:3, "from thirty years and upward, even to fifty years old, all who enter the service to do the work in the tent of meeting." Therefore we can conclude that Jesus began His earthly ministry at the age of 30. Since it went on for 3 1/2 years before Jesus was crucified, it is safe to say that He was 33 at the time of His death Jesus (the man) was crucified at the age of 33.
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He certainly did a lot of work in 3 short years.


The real 'mind stretcher' is, how old he was before he was here.

He is mentioned countless times in the Bible before he came here, and he himself talks about how he was sent here for his mission to save people. So that tells us he was around before he was born.

So.......... I think Curtis P40 could very well have hit the nail on the head.

If time is a created 'physic' or law or device, and Jesus was around during its creation, then he is outside of time.

Also, in the bible, it states that for God, a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years is like a day. So could it be that the location of heaven is outside of time or time behaves at a different speed compared to ours (our location or dimension), and thus aging is different as well.

Here is something else. We base time on a day and a year. A year is based on the revolution of our planet around the sun. What if the Earth was travelling faster 2,000 or even 5,000 or even 10,000 years ago. Lets say then that one year 5,000 years ago, the earth did a revolution in only 330 days. That would appear that people lived much longer (many many years old), but in reality, the years were shorter because of a faster orbit of the Earth. The same could be for days, if the Earth is slowing down in RPM for its 'day' cycle. Thus, 5,000 years ago, one day could have been perhaps 19 hours...

But thats beside the point. Those are only measurements 'here' in this 'place' and only illustrates our perceptions and measurements of time.


Now... one more mind stretcher...

In the scripture, it says 'God knew us before we were born.'
 
Also, I think it is accepted that December 25th has nothing to do with the birth of Christ. We celebrate his birth then, but Christmas was placed on the 25th to coincide with the Winter Solstice so pagans wouldn't be so shocked when they were forced into celebrating new Christian holidays.

...just saying
 
My brother and I were just talking about this..


If for God a day is like a thousand years for us, then 10 years for him would be approximately 3,650,000 years for us...

Dang..

That is some massive time compression..
 
Orthodox Christmas

According to my Ukrainian Orthodox friends Christmas isn't until Jan.7. So his "birthday" isn't for a few days. Makes for good fun in this neighborhood as we get 2 Christmas and 2 New Years days each year to celebrate. And man you have to try a traditional 12 course Ukrainian Christmas dinner. Delicious.:kilroy:
 
djscoo said:
Also, I think it is accepted that December 25th has nothing to do with the birth of Christ.
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I agree - it was celebrated as a pagan festival for centuries before Jesus was but a twinkle in God's all seeing eye. The same goes for Easter of course.

I have a strong suspicion however that it's not accepted round here :mixedsmi:
 
I believe I read something about astrologers back-plotting visible stars and comets and comming to the concencus that this particular profit was born in April? Noting the political manipulations of the early Christian church as it spread it's power base north through Europe, one would observe that it was important to place one their more signifigant calendar celebrations atop of one of similar status that the Non-Christian social traditions they were replacing. Churches atop of temple sites, etc. I wonder how many time's Athena's Parthanon has gone from being a temple, a church, a mosque, a military barrack, an ammo dump.....etc, etc.
So...perhaps Jesus is really a Taurus, not an Aquarius...?
 
These types of questions never cease to amaze me.

For everyone's percieved knowledge and understanding of what they think they know, its unfortunate that they know nothing at all.

And really anyone with a little astute knowledge of times and seasons and understanding of historical events would still be hard pressed to know the real answer to that question.

I can assure you of at least one thing ... he's older than the, spiritural heavens, and much older than the physical universe, though I tend to agree more so with Paiken than any of the other answers here.
 
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