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The Inerrancy of the Bible

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MangyTiger
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01-18-2005 1:37 AM 		Reply to: Message 157 by johnfolton
01-18-2005 12:17 AM

Beware boring astronomers bearing gifts
Oddly enough there was a program on the BBC over Christmas about the Wise Men (Magi). Thinking about it, Christmas... Wise Men... I suppose it wasn't that odd it was on
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It had various interesting theories and bits of historical information about the Magi - who they were, where they came from, why they came to Bethlehem and so on. This included a theory proposed by professional astronomer and amateur coin collector Micheal Molnar (his site will explain the significance of the coin collecting).
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He uses boring astronomy facts along with even more boring coin related facts to come up with a date of 6 BC for the birth of Jesus.
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Now that is quite interesting - and just goes to show there's more than one date you come up with using astronomy/astrology
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Which is right ? Are any of them right ? Personally I neither know nor care.
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Confused ? You will be...
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MangyTiger
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01-20-2005 9:14 PM 		Reply to: Message 292 by Incognito
01-20-2005 7:32 PM

Re: PaulK, Brian, Nighttrain, Sidelined
While I was administering my thirteenth consulship [2 B.C.] the senate and the equestrian order and the entire Roman people gave me the title Father of my Country" (Res Gestae 35, italics added).
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Just to save everyone else looking it up, this is how it appears in the linked to site (the bolding - not italics as the site says ! - was lost in the original cur and paste).
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I'm no Roman history expert but isn't it possible that he's speaking figuratively ? "I'm so popular everyone agreed" kind of a deal ?
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