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The originally calculated timeframe was incorrect, so rather than change what year it is, religious scholars just say Jesus, if he existed at all, was born in 6-4 B.C.E.
The Bible puts Jesus's birth before the death of Herod the Great, which happened shortly after a Lunar eclipse - we now know that happened in March, 4 B.C.E.
However, it's also possible Jesus was born as far back as 6 B.C.E., what with Herod ordering the killing of all male babies under 2 years of age, and it is written that effort was made to hide Jesus from this.
Of course, it's all likely bs anyway, but there is a somewhat logical reason for the whole Jesus's birth not lining up with year 0 thing.
Great comment. I only wonder how you were going to profit from this, o nagus
His post was sponsored by NordVPN
Don't question the nagus, surely someone as esteemed as his lobeliness knows what they're doing. A wise man can smell profit in the wind.
Selling Jesus merch, duh. Have you seen some of the crap those people buy? Hopefully they live in The Bible Belt, and not Las Vegas, which is where I would expect to run into Ferengi.
None of the new testament was written down until at least 200 as far as we know. It was all oral history until that point. So best case those first authors got stories originally witnessed by their great great great great grandparents. But of course there were no mistellings or misrememberings of the story along the way; god wouldn't let that happen.