Okay, don't answer the challenge made to your particular hypothesis. Taking it in another direction to obfuscate the challenge still does not take care of the discrepancy. What you present has nothing to do with the points I was offering for consideration.

Unfortunately, it is not as air tight as you think. There has been more than one attempt to use astronomical dating to pinpoint this event. ALL OF THEM arrive at different dating because this software is based upon dating that is flawed to begin with due to the discrepancies in ancient calendars and dating methods. I have seen just about all of them. But that is okay. We can agree to disagree. But unless a hypothesis harmonizes with the rest of the information concerning that event in a textural, historical, and cultural context, it must be held loosely - not as fact.

The important thing is that we are all believers and that is what we have in common and we should not argue about things that cannot be nailed down with any decree of certainty. It was never meant to be. If his birth was to align with a Hebrew festival date, there would be an indication of that in the text. There is none. Therefore, take what we do know for certain - his death and resurrection - and hold to that.

Okay, don't answer the challenge made to your particular hypothesis. Taking it in another direction to obfuscate the challenge still does not take care of the discrepancy. What you present has nothing to do with the points I was offering for consideration.

Unfortunately, it is not as air tight as you think. There has been more than one attempt to use astronomical dating to pinpoint this event. ALL OF THEM arrive at different dating because creating software this software is based upon dating that is flawed to begin with due to the discrepancies in ancient calendars and dating methods. I have seen just about all of them. But that is okay. We can agree to disagree. But unless a hypothesis harmonizes with the rest of the information concerning that event in a textural, historical, and cultural context, it must be held loosely - not as fact.

The important thing is that we are all believers and that is what we have in common and we should not argue about things that cannot be nailed down with any decree of certainty. It was never meant to be. If his birth was to align with a Hebrew festival date, there would be an indication of that in the text. There is none. Therefore, take what we do know for certain - his death and resurrection - and hold to that.