Does anybody really know what time it is?
@PS Chiro @KingOfWhiteAmerica
KingOfWhiteAmerica and PS can't even agree what day the Messiah was born.
Nobody knows. Most of the primary sources of Christianity were burned in Nicea 300 years after Christ was born.
Part of the reason I love Islam so much. The entire corpus is largely untouched. The Quran itself is untouched and perfected.
I love Scientology because it's completely untouched. Anyone gets close...poof...kidnapped.
It is one of the things I love, not why I love it.
We agree on the day. But over the course of 2000 years, one calendar that averages to 365.25 days per year, vs one that averages to 365.2425 days per year, and you're going to get some drift.
The latter is of course the one that is more astronomically accurate (there are 365.24219 24-hour days in one solar revolution).
Yes. But you're just moving the issue now. What day of this year more closely corresponds to the Annunciation? The one that is 365.25 X 2021, or the one that is 365.2425 X 2021?
Let me put it another way. We both believe Christ was born on December 25. That is, four days after the Winter Solstice. The Winter Solstice is an astronomically discernible day - the shortest day of the year.
So if Christ was born four days after the shortest day of Anno Domini 1, then would we not be more faithfully celebrating His birth in AD 2020 by celebrating it four days after the shortest day of Anno Domini 2020, rather than by celebrating it 17 days after the shortest day of Anno Domini 2020?
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