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Re: Marking Y2k time: ok, when was he born, anyway?
Posted By: Spider-Boy, on host 207.10.37.2
Date: Thursday, December 9, 1999, at 08:01:39
In Reply To: Re: Marking Y2k time: ok, when was he born, anyway? posted by Sam on Thursday, December 9, 1999, at 04:12:32:

> > According to the Bible, Jesus and his family spent some time in Egypt to avoid persecution by King
> > Herod, returning to their home when they received news that he was dead.
> > Therefore, Jesus was born before Herod died.
> > History records that Herod snuffed it in 4 BC.
>
> You sure it's the right Herod? I don't have an opinion about the exact year of Jesus' birth, but I do know that there were a whole lot of King Herods around that time.

I think he proably has the right Herod, I think the next King Herod was the one Christ was taken infront of before put to death.

Spider-IdobelivethattheHerodwhokilledthebabies
laterclaimedtobetheMessiah,which,accordingto
ledgend,iswhyhesuddenlydied-Boy