Alētheia

  I hope you are as intrigued by this blog entry as I am in writing it. Before I proceed any further though allow me to set the stage. The information that follows is not the result of my own research, instead it is a theory proposed to me one day by Terry Rikard, the minister at the Mebane St. church of Christ . My contribution is relegated to A) editing and rewriting the information in a way that hopefully flows well and B) publishing it here on my blog.   Was Jesus born on December 25? I believe any person who has studied the Bible at all can attest to the fact that the Bible nowhere states that Jesus Christ was born on December 25th. Through a careful study and assimilation of the scriptures though, as well as a knowledge of Jewish history, customs and traditions we can put together a clearer picture of when Christ was truly born.   For our purposes the story of the birth of Christ begins with Zacharias (also spelled Zechariah), the father of John the Baptist. ...