King Herod?

I will send you an article to read so you can get the full picture of Herod’s role in history and to understand why he is important to Bible readers, we need to look back several decades before Jesus’ birth.  Here is the link to the article:  “In the Days of Herod the King” https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/library/r1/lp-e/all-publ...

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Many Christians might loose sight of the goal and then focus on lesser important things never the less the main points of the new testament and of The Christ' teachings are love God with all your soul mind and heart, love your neighbor as yourself and love even your enemy . He even showed us a living example with his lifestyle. Whether we are Christians or not this kind of lifestyle still holds true!

Because the Bible is a poorly written fanfic level novel.

It's worse than that --- the only year discussed in the New Testament is in Luke 3.  The problem is that there is no actual date when all those rulers were ruling simultaneously.  Those dates are known from history and archeology.  Christian apologists have tried to falsify the dates to produce a definite time, but that's just Lying for Jesus.

That passage in Luke 3 seems like the vague sort of time that many pre-historical oral traditions cite: "long ago...before even your grandfather was born...so-and-so was king..."

That was  Herod Antipas, a son of Herod the Great. As for the Jesus character, there is no such thing as evidence that such a persons ever lived.

Both Luke and Matthew mention Jesus’ birth as occurring during Herod’s reign (Luke 1:5; Matthew 2:1). Josephus relates Herod’s death to a lunar eclipse. This is generally regarded as a reference to a lunar eclipse in 4 B.C. Therefore it is often said that Jesus was born in 4 B.C.

The 3 Herod successors seem to have started their reigns in 4 B.C. -- implying that Herod died that year.

Augustus respected the terms of Herod's will, which stipulated the division of Herod's kingdom among three of his sons.[89]

Augustus recognized Herod's son Herod Archelaus as ethnarch of Judea, Samaria, and Idumea to 6 CE, referred to as the tetrarchy of Judea.

Augustus then judged Archelaus incompetent to rule, removed him from power, and combined the provinces of Samaria, Judea proper, and Idumea into Iudaea province.[90]

As to Herod's other sons, Herod Antipas was tetrarch of Galilee and Peraea from Herod's death to 39 CE when he was deposed and exiled; Philip became tetrarch of territories north and east of the Jordan and ruled until his death in 34 CE.

Did Herod really exist?

No, I'm not King Herod.  

Ask questions that make sense.

That Gregoriancalendar dating system was found to be wrong after it had been adopted in 1582. The original calculations were out by several years, but it was too late in the day to change it all again, which would have required setting all the dates forward by about 6 years. Because the exact year of Jesus' birth simply is not know (other than it was before Herod the Great died in 4 B.C. and fitted in with a little known census in 7 B.C.,) no exact start time for the Christian Era can be given.

Herod the Great absolutely WAS king of Judea when Jesus was born!

It is not clear when Jesus was born. The current consensus seems to be that it was somewhere between 7BC and 4BC, and that the original calculation of his birth by Dionysius Exiguus was mistaken. There are some scholars who maintain that he was correct, and that the death of Herod took place in 1BC

Because the bible is fiction.

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are stories of the same events but they all differ in the 'facts' the state.

All four books were written 50 to 70 years after they say Jesus died. They is no contemporary evidence that a bible Jesus even existed.