Shawn Ryan
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And many scholars believe that is where they came up with December the 25th as a day to celebrate for the birth of Jesus.
Interesting.
In fact, very early, there was a guy named Sexus Julius Africanus.
Yep.
Isn't it fascinating?
It's fascinating.
Crazy things.
Maybe not crazy.
We don't know, but I think that makes a lot of sense based on their beliefs.
Now, there was a guy named Julius Sextus Africanus.
He was a very early church historian.
And in the very early 200s AD, he was writing a chronology about Christian events.
And he said in there that Jesus was conceived on March the 25th.
How would he know?
How could he have possibly known that the Holy Spirit conceived him?
Because Tertullian had determined that he had died on March the 25th.
And that's why it goes down in the history of Christianity as being
the day of conception, and therefore nine months later is December the 25th.
Wow.
Okay.