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Quake reveals day of Jesus' crucifixion, researchers believe
MSNBC ^ | 5/24/2012 | Jennifer Viegas

Posted on 05/24/2012 8:35:52 PM PDT by caldera599

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Kinda puts a nail into Sabbatarian Christianity eh?
1 posted on 05/24/2012 8:36:08 PM PDT by caldera599
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Which calendar? Gregorian or Julian?

/johnny

2 posted on 05/24/2012 8:39:21 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: caldera599
And I had a quake this afternoon that reveled what I had for dinner Tuesday.
3 posted on 05/24/2012 8:41:25 PM PDT by BigCinBigD
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To: caldera599

No.


4 posted on 05/24/2012 8:54:07 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: caldera599

BSDNC???


5 posted on 05/24/2012 8:59:45 PM PDT by moonshot925
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To: caldera599

There are no conclusions reached here, only conjecture.


6 posted on 05/24/2012 9:06:41 PM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot
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No kidding. Friday the 3rd is Julian calendar dating. Friday the 1st is Gregorian, which we use today.

And it's sorta sad to have to base your faith on screwed up human calendars.

I once spent a month, more or less, studying the calendars used in history. Makes me grateful for the 1970 epoch counting of Unix time and UTC.

/johnny

7 posted on 05/24/2012 9:13:41 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: caldera599

Not scientific. But, if you look into history it’s arguable that the exodus of the Hebrews was started after a massive volcanic eruption.

Gas that kills “first born”? Probably more than that if it was methane release. Reptiles jumping out of the river, filed with “blood” or lava. A fissure that could cause the Red Sea to shift and leave an area to cross?

Of course, this would be over years. But doesn’t the Bible tell stories over years?

Just a conjecture for a thinking excercise.


8 posted on 05/24/2012 9:19:39 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Democrats are dangerous and evil. Republicans are just useless and useful idiots.)
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Doesn’t matter which calendar. The numbers are different, but the days of the week are the same. Friday, 15 Oct, 1582 was the next day after Thursday, 2 Oct, 1582, right in sync. And both calendars took their ordinal days of the week straight from the Jewish.


9 posted on 05/24/2012 9:22:15 PM PDT by dangus
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And both calendars took their ordinal days of the week straight from the Jewish.

The Julian calendar uses ordinal days of the week from the Jews? The Roman Calendar reformed by Julius Caesar in 45 BC took their ordinal days of the week from the Jews?

I don't think so.

/johnny

10 posted on 05/24/2012 9:30:26 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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Friday, 15 Oct, 1582 was the next day after Thursday, 2 Oct, 1582

Well, that clears it right up.

11 posted on 05/24/2012 9:31:21 PM PDT by M. Thatcher
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To: Mind-numbed Robot

Then in other words everyone’s time is being wasted.


12 posted on 05/24/2012 9:36:53 PM PDT by Republican1795.
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To: M. Thatcher
Until you spend some time studying it, you can't imagine the magnitude of fail in human calendars and timekeeping. The transfer from Julian to Gregorian did change by 13 days and a bit. Depending on where you were, because not all countries changed in the same century.

For dates back around 33 AD, I'd say the first new moon after the vernal equinox, plus or minus a week is plenty close enough for my faith.

There are those that strain at a gnat and swallow a camel. And wars have been fought over it.

/johnny

13 posted on 05/24/2012 9:38:08 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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You obviously know more about this then me, but I can just imagine the variances and mistakes in time keeping over the centuries. We can’t even keep time right at a short sporting event these days!

And the story was from MSNBC. At least the estimate was 3/33 and not 6/66!


14 posted on 05/24/2012 10:20:42 PM PDT by MacMattico
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To: caldera599

 GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother & Ernest_at_the_Beach
Thanks caldera599.

Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.


15 posted on 05/24/2012 10:20:55 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (FReepathon 2Q time -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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I once spent a month, more or less, studying the calendars used in history. Makes me grateful for the 1970 epoch counting of Unix time and UTC.

LOL!

Bet you never had to puzzle over the Peloponnesian calendar of 4th century B.C. That one may never be unraveled.

16 posted on 05/24/2012 10:23:44 PM PDT by publius911 (Formerly Publius 6961, formerly jennsdad)
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To: caldera599

Ping


17 posted on 05/24/2012 11:09:52 PM PDT by dragonblustar (Allah Ain't So Akbar!)
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To: caldera599

If we bother to read the article, it states that the four Gospels all agree that the day of crucifixion was a Friday. I’m still trying to figure out where it states in the Scriptures the day is a Friday. Certainly, the commentary states so - it also says that on Wednesday of Passion Week nothing happened (NIV).


18 posted on 05/24/2012 11:37:30 PM PDT by linedrive
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There was only one lunar eclipse visible from Jerusalem at the time of Passover in the period from 26 - 36 AD. It occurred on Friday April 3, AD 33. The Moon rose above the horizon already in the midst of eclipse and would have progressively ‘turned to blood’ as the eclipse continued.


19 posted on 05/24/2012 11:38:10 PM PDT by Mormon Cricket
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To: linedrive

“If we bother to read the article, it states that the four Gospels all agree that the day of crucifixion was a Friday. I’m still trying to figure out where it states in the Scriptures the day is a Friday. Certainly, the commentary states so - it also says that on Wednesday of Passion Week nothing happened (NIV).”

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They didn’t look at exact hours like we do, people referred
to time in days. Jesus states it Himself.

Luke 13:32
And he said to them: Go and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and do cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I am consummated.


20 posted on 05/24/2012 11:51:14 PM PDT by stpio
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