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Originally posted by babybunnies
And you also need to look at how close the expression "Son of God" is to "Sun God"
The "Sun God" was widely worshipped around the world in many Pagan societies.
Originally posted by babybunnies
And you also need to look at how close the expression "Son of God" is to "Sun God"
The "Sun God" was widely worshipped around the world in many Pagan societies.
Originally posted by NOTurTypical
Originally posted by babybunnies
And you also need to look at how close the expression "Son of God" is to "Sun God"
The "Sun God" was widely worshipped around the world in many Pagan societies.
You might have a point if the words are similar in Hebrew or Koine Greek. The authors of the Bible didn't speak English.
Originally posted by DeadSeraph
Originally posted by NOTurTypical
Originally posted by babybunnies
And you also need to look at how close the expression "Son of God" is to "Sun God"
The "Sun God" was widely worshipped around the world in many Pagan societies.
You might have a point if the words are similar in Hebrew or Koine Greek. The authors of the Bible didn't speak English.
Not to mention the fact Jesus referred to himself as "The Son of Man" (completely blowing such a simple comparison away) because he knew what connotations it had in the Old Testament (which in his time was the NOW testament of the jews).
Originally posted by TarzanBeta
I know this particularly from experience because I was gifted with intelligence of a high caliber - so much so that no one could match my ability to imagine or figure anything.
The Day of the Cross
www.bethlehemstar.net...
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
reply to post by NewAgeMan
watch this Star of Bethlehem EXTRA
Which would mean....that when Abraham hauled Isaac up the mountain to sacrifice him, only to have his hand stayed by an angel of God, while a two-horned Ram was suddenly found nearby caught up in a ticket as an alternative, that that event prophecied this event.
Lunar eclipse
A lunar eclipse from March 2007. A lunar eclipse can last a few hours, total coverage being about an hour.[36] Apostle Peter's reference to a "moon of blood" in Acts 2:20 has been used to infer the date of the Crucifixion.Humphreys and Waddington of Oxford University reconstructed the Jewish calendar in the first century AD and arrived at the conclusion that Friday April 3 33AD was the date of the Crucifixion.[23] Humphreys and Waddington went further and also reconstructed the scenario for a lunar eclipse on that day.[35] They concluded that:
"This eclipse was visible from Jerusalem at moonrise. .... The start of the eclipse was invisible from Jerusalem, being below the horizon. The eclipse began at 3:40pm and reached a maximum at 5:15pm, with 60% of the moon eclipsed. This was also below the horizon from Jerusalem. The moon rose above the horizon, and was first visible from Jerusalem at about 6:20pm (the start of the Jewish Sabbath and also the start of Passover day in A.D. 33) with about 20% of its disc in the umbra of the earth's shadow and the remainder in the penumbra. The eclipse finished some thirty minutes later at 6:50pm."
Moreover, their calculations showed that the 20% visible of the moon was positioned close to the top (i.e. leading edge) of the moon. The failure of any of the gospel accounts to refer to a lunar eclipse is, they assume, the result of a scribe wrongly amending a text to refer to a solar eclipse.[37]:150
In Acts 2:20, the Apostle Peter mentions in the context of a prophecy from Joel that "the sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood"[Acts 2:20]. A "moon of blood" is a term also commonly used for a lunar eclipse because of the reddish color of the light refracted onto the moon through the Earth's atmosphere. Commentators are divided upon the exact nature of this statement by Saint Peter. The investigation by Humphreys and Waddington concluded that the moon turned to blood statement probably refers to a lunar eclipse, and they showed that this interpretation is self consistent and seems to confirm their conclusion that the crucifixion occurred on April 3, 33. However, they fail to address the preceding reference to the darkened sun.[35]
Using his approach to computing "celestial glare", Bradley Schaefer opposed the views of Humphreys and Waddington with respect to the visibility of the lunar eclipse, since his computations of celestial glare would not allow a visible lunar eclipse during the Crucifixion.[38][39] Ruggles also supported Schaefer's views.[40] However, using different computational mechanisms, based on the approach originally used by Isaac Newton, John Pratt and later Bradley Schaefer separately arrived at the same date for the Crucifixion as Humphreys and Waddington did based on the lunar eclipse approach, namely Friday, April 3 33 AD.[41]
Gaskel argued a lunar eclipse during the day of the crucifixion could have received significant attention.[42]
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What time of the year do the Jewish celebrate passover?
According to the Jewish calendar, Passover starts the evening of (Nissan/Abib) the 14th[Lev.23:5-7; Exodus 12:2,6,14; 13:3-7] which would be the latter part-evening of the 13th and ends the 21st at evening before going into the 22nd..
Exodus 12:18 = "In the first month, on the 14th day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even."
See Jesus's disciples observing it in the evening of the 13th which would be Tuesday evening(Wednesday 14th) back then[Luke 22:1-20; Mark 14:12-27] and then Jesus died still on Passover which would be the 14th on a Wednesday.[Note: if Passover fell like people said on the 14th and they celebrated it on the evening of the 14th; that would go into the 15th which is a Holy Day; note the Pharisses said not on the feast day; the feast day is holy, so they had to kill him on Passover the 14th]
Note: evening to evening is considered to be a day in the Bible.
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In the year 2009; Passover is celebrated April 8th to the 15th. So Passover starts the evening of the 7th and lasts until the evening of the 8th; then are the days of unleavened bread which are the 9th to the 15th. The 9th and 15th are holy days. See Exodus 12:14-20.
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God's Holy Days Calendar: www.tomorrowsworld.org...
28 But if I by the Spirit of God cast out demons, then is the kingdom of God come upon you.
29 Or how can one enter into the house of the strong man, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.
30 He that is not with me is against me, and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.
~ Mathew 12:28-30
Keep an open mind, watch "The Real Star of Bethlehem" video series, and check this link,
Originally posted by lonewolf19792000
Has nothing to do with the Son of God who is the Heir to the White Throne, his Light is not the literal Light, it's spiritual light of righteousness. Nimrod did try to confound mankind by creating his own pagan cults where he was worshipped as the sungod (sometimes known as Sol Invictus, or Lord Krishna) but Yeshua is not a sungod, he is the only God, the Word, the Voice of God, his physical manifestation in this universe.
Originally posted by Akragon
reply to post by NewAgeMan
Keep an open mind, watch "The Real Star of Bethlehem" video series, and check this link,
Even i was quite impressed by that video actually...
I would even say humbled...
Though its still only theory... i definatly felt truth in how its presented
The 3rd-century Christian historian Sextus Julius Africanus, in a section of his work surviving in quotation by George Syncellus, stated that the chronicler Thallus had called the darkness during the crucifixion a solar eclipse. [12] Africanus objected based on the fact that a solar eclipse could not occur during Passover; the festival is held at a full moon while a solar eclipse can only occur during a new moon. It is unclear whether Thallus himself made any reference to the crucifixion. [13]
Africanus also cites the 2nd-century chronicler Phlegon of Tralles: "Phlegon records that during the reign of Tiberius Caesar there was a complete solar eclipse at full moon from the sixth to the ninth hour". The church historian Eusebius of Caesarea (264 – 340), in his Chronicle, quotes Phlegon as saying that during the fourth year of the 202nd Olympiad (AD 32/33) "a great eclipse of the sun occurred at the sixth hour that excelled every other before it, turning the day into such darkness of night that the stars could be seen in heaven, and the earth moved in Bithynia, toppling many buildings in the city of Nicaea". [14] It has been suggested that this was the eclipse of November 24, 29 AD in the first year of the Olympiad, the number Α' (1st) having been corrupted to Δ' (4th). [12] In a 2005 paper, Nicolas Ambraseys points out that the sources do not mention Jerusalem in connection with the earthquake. [15]
Tertullian, in his Apologeticus, tells the story of the darkness that had commenced at noon during the crucifixion; those who were unaware of the prediction, he says, "no doubt thought it an eclipse". [16] He suggests that the evidence is still available: "You yourselves have the account of the world-portent still in your archives." [17]
The early historian and theologian, Rufinus of Aquileia (between 340 and 345 – 410), in his expanded work of Eusebius’ Ecclesiastical History, includes a part of the defense given to Maximinus by Lucian of Antioch, shortly before he suffered martyrdom in 312. [18] Lucian, like Tertullian, was also convinced that an account of the darkness that accompanied the crucifixion could be found among Roman records. Ussher recorded Lucian's corresponding statement given to Maximinus as, “Search your writings and you shall find that, in Pilate’s time, when Christ suffered, the sun was suddenly withdrawn and a darkness followed.” [19]
The next prominent Christian historian after Eusebius, Paulus Orosius (375 – 418), wrote c. 417 that Jesus "voluntarily gave himself over to the Passion but through the impiety of the Jews, was apprehended and nailed to the cross, as a very great earthquake took place throughout the world, rocks upon mountains were split, and a great many parts of the largest cities fell by this extraordinary violence. On the same day also, at the sixth hour of the day, the Sun was entirely obscured and a loathsome night suddenly overshadowed the land, as it was said, ‘an impious age feared eternal night.’ Moreover, it was quite clear that neither the Moon nor the clouds stood in the way of the light of the Sun, so that it is reported that on that day the Moon, being fourteen days old, with the entire region of the heavens thrown in between, was farthest from the sight of the Sun, and the stars throughout the entire sky shone, then in the hours of the day or rather in that terrible night. To this, not only the authority of the Holy Gospels attest, but even some books of the Greeks."