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roxrkool: I looked at your site and I thought it was really well done. Not to mention extremely interesting. I had never heard that about using lunar rather than solar cycles.
Hi Rox,
Thanks for the comment. As far as I know, I arrived at it independently. It was a pretty amazing discovery to me at the time, but now it seems almost too obvious to be overlooked by a serious seeker. There must have been someone somewhere who noticed it before I did. This is (briefly) how it happened for me.
About thirty-five years ago, one of my professors of religion, while making a case for the uniqueness of the seventh-day Sabbath had said, "There is nothing in nature which exhibits a seven day cycle." i.e.
The Sabbath is not based on anything in the natural world. I was young at the time and naive regarding the lunar calendar. Then, about thirty years later, I realized he was wrong.
Not long after introducing the subject in another Yahoo! debate forum a few years back, I was surprised to see an article appear in Watchtower magazine, shortly thereafter, criticizing the theory. It was especially amazing since I'd never heard of it before proposing it, and had just released my argument in a public forum. The Jehovah's Witness' criticism made no mention of the cultural factor - whereby children become members of the Jewish community at age 13. Without inclusion of this factor, of course, the theory does not work.
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"If God created Nature, then the Law of Nature is the Law of God."