The recent question on the Mayan calendar (ending in 2012) got my interest. Having studied astrology and several ancient calendars in the past, I now have to ask 'what year are we really in?
Herod, who ordered the death of Jesus while still living obviously, died 2BC according to history while Dionysius ('Little Dennis' of Constantine fame) miscalculated by another 4 years. So we have 6 to 7 missing years already!
The Bible (Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth) tells us that this will happen. The Sabbath has been changed to a Sunday in prep for global Sun worship; the new year has changed to 1st january and we even believe (well, non or marginal Chritians at least) that Christmas marks the birth of Jesus!
Are we not in, at least, 2014? Can we use the Jewish/Chinese/Indian calendars etc to really establish the year? Using these facts and actual history, can you establish what year we are really in?
2007-12-17 15:53:44 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
some excellent answers ... tere are three issues here, God made nature and the year of our calendar is not arbitrary because using a changed year, all the prophecies line up and verify biblical events for evangalisation purposes!
I am trying to establish where the 'lie' is and how it happened!
2007-12-17 16:16:11 · update #1
According to Henry Breasted, an Egyptologist, 6221 AC (after creation).
The date is based on a correlation between the two new year cycles of Egypt's old kingdom. He theorized that the first time the two festivals could have occurred on the same day must have been their true origin. Otherwise, they could not have known their cycle in the 3rd millenium, as they did, and they couldn't have celebrated them as they did.
(I disagree, as I always do. I think their civilization is older, and this occassion started a strong tradition.)
By the way, Herod died in the spring of 4 bc. This is known because of a lunar eclipse that occurred not long before. That was Dio's 4-year-error. If he had been better educated, we'd be in the year 2011, entering 2012 in January.
Look, the Clintons won't tolerate the end of the world before Hillary gets into the Oval Office. So the prophecies must be wrong.
2007-12-17 15:57:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
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What year are we actually in?
The recent question on the Mayan calendar (ending in 2012) got my interest. Having studied astrology and several ancient calendars in the past, I now have to ask 'what year are we really in?
Herod, who ordered the death of Jesus while still living obviously, died 2BC according to history...
2015-08-04 06:46:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most historians put the death of that Herod in 4 b.c.
What year it is, is immaterial. From what start point do you want to use as a reference?
Creation? Jesus' birth?
The sabbath was never changed to Sunday. Sabbatarians make that claim, and some Catholics do, but there is no evidence to that effect. What pope; what council made this "change?"
Your comment on global Sun worship is just an accusation without any support. Is this what you learned in "Christianity"-- to make baseless accusations contrary to the command of Christ?
You insult people's intelligence.
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2007-12-18 02:18:17 · answer #3 · answered by Hogie 7 · 2⤊ 4⤋
What Year Is It Really
2016-10-01 02:42:11 · answer #4 · answered by arruda 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What "year" we're in is completely arbitrary anyway. We've been using the present system, however inaccurate it may be (+/- a few years) for over a millennium--I think since the 4th Century if I'm not mistaken.
What difference does it make? Jesus was just a man anyway--why do we have to base our arbitrary dating system on the exact year he was born?
2007-12-17 15:58:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
It depends on what calendar you are using.
It is 2000 for Ethiopia. 5768 for the Hebrew.
Use this web site for a simple conversion.
http://www.funaba.org/en/calendar-conversion.cgi
Also we are in an election year. Global warming increases from all the hot air the candidates are creating.
2007-12-17 15:59:27 · answer #6 · answered by Theophilus 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, we're in 2007, or at least definitely not 2014 because nothing happened two years ago, i.e. 2012.
2007-12-17 16:01:27 · answer #7 · answered by Maus 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why worry over this and waste, time given to us is so precious. "...... Behold , Now is the favorable time; now is the day of salvation" 2 Corinthians 6:2 . We must say to each other, "We're not doing right. This is a day of good news and we are keeping it to ourselves. If we waite untill daylight , punishment will overtake us. Let's go......." 2 Kings7;9
2007-12-17 18:14:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Cortez showed up exactly on schedule. His calendar is the same as ours. We're not in 2014 qute yet.
2007-12-17 16:06:50 · answer #9 · answered by Michelle C 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The year is 2007, because it is arbitrarily defined to be so. Whether or not some date was miscalculated is irrelevant to that.
2007-12-17 15:59:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋