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**LeviBrawn** · 04-07-2011, 04:08 AM

That was an excellent link! Thanks a lot for sharing it. I find it interesting that people thought the world was going to end in 2800 BC, due to the widespread corruption of the people at the time.

One interesting thing I heard from Fr Athanasios Mitilinaios (of blessed memory) is that we cannot be sure that the year 0 AD is the exact year that Christ was born. He said that the actual date of the birth of Christ might be up to 3 years off of our estimate. Then he said that the Lord left us this ambiguity so that people wouldn't be making predictions of the end of the world based on "years after the birth of Christ". If they had known this, this might have had an impact on some of the Jehovah's Witnesses predictions, but I'm not sure what they were basing those on.

04-07-2011, 04:08 AM	#3
LeviBrawn Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 638 Senior Member	That was an excellent link! Thanks a lot for sharing it. I find it interesting that people thought the world was going to end in 2800 BC, due to the widespread corruption of the people at the time. One interesting thing I heard from Fr Athanasios Mitilinaios (of blessed memory) is that we cannot be sure that the year 0 AD is the exact year that Christ was born. He said that the actual date of the birth of Christ might be up to 3 years off of our estimate. Then he said that the Lord left us this ambiguity so that people wouldn't be making predictions of the end of the world based on "years after the birth of Christ". If they had known this, this might have had an impact on some of the Jehovah's Witnesses predictions, but I'm not sure what they were basing those on.
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