Posted on 02/21/2024 8:37:41 PM PST by SunkenCiv
In that system, wouldn't the Christian era start at the resurrection?
The sure-fire way to get the treatment since time immemorial.
Skepticism is now part of the scientific method, but at that time, it was not.
Skepticism has always been a part of the *scientific* method. The Establishment way, well now that's different. If any establishment did that, there goes the establishment: the safety and security of settled dogma, the fine reputations, the personality cults, the positions of authority, the grants. The power.
When Moses saw the burning bush. He instinctively wanted to understand *why* it wasn't burning itself out.
When God saw Moses' response was when the conversation got going. Not before.
I mention these details of the text because the word translated as "why" is madua [מַדּוּעַ], not the general word for "why", which is lamah [לָֽמָּה], "for what?".
The root of madua is yada, to know, the same from which science (מַדָּע mada) is derived.
Klein's:
מַדְּוּעַ adv. why? wherefore? [Contraction of מַה יָּדוּעַ (= what is known? i.e. ‘for what reason’). cp. Aram. מִדַּעַם (= something), which is contracted from מִדַּע and מָא, lit. ‘something knowable’.]Moses -- now there was a man not afraid of Ys, who could lead the people out of Egypt, the house of bondage of the establishment mindset.
"Bookfind of the century"
Fascinating! And the way it was discerned... a blessing!
I wouldn’t mind doing some medieval book-flipping if it went like this. :^)
You have a point
Modern society is reverting to that time before skepticism became pat of Scientific thought. No skepticism allowed for Climate Change insanity or for COVID decrees.
Yep. From my home page:
On the end times:
Has the Biblical Goliath Been Found? ^(I haven't updated the current year range...)
Posted by null and void to RHS in Fairfield
On News/Activism ^ 11/10/2005 7:07:40 AM PST · 54 of 114 ^Which brings me to one of my hobby horses:
We already agree that our calendar is wrong, off by anywhere from 2 to 16 years, depending on who's doing the reckoning, and further in error because of the absence of a year zero.
The more fundamental point is that God did not intend us to mark His years by the birth of Jesus.
If He had intended this we would have a Biblical fixing of the date.
Further, the day of Jesus' birth is unremarkable as all men are born.
However, very few return from the dead, that event is remarkable, and it is the defining moment of Christianity, the very moment of proof that his sacrifice was not in vain. And the Bible gives a precise reference for when this happened!
Clearly this was the date the calendar was supposed to start!
For extra points, this makes our calendar off by anywhere from 17 to 30 years. That makes this something like Holy Year 1988 to Holy Year 1975, giving us anywhere from 12 to 25 years to get our affairs in order before the real end of the millennium...
Usually written by idiots that failed the course.
I say it was overvalued. Fine the sellers.
Interesting.
In any case, I reject the “common era” label.
Well, you are write about part of it at least. Skepticism is not part of “the Science.”
:^)
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