LL> Matthew shows the birth of Jesus as being December 25, 5 B. C. in an
LL> allegorical sense.  Not a literal sense.  In any event, nobody knows
LL> what the weather was like two thousand years ago in Palestine.  The
LL> climate may have been much cooler then than it is today.  Or it could
LL> have been much warmer.  How many seasons were there?  Maybe two.
LL> Maybe six.  Maybe four.  We really don't know.

We have a pretty good idea, studying soil structures, tree rings, etc. . .
I wouldn't say it's rare that it snows in "Israel" -- being as
every year for
the past several, there's been a healthy dumping there (more than we've had
here in my part of Canada!)

LL> It very rarely snows in Palestine.  Even in the wintertime.  However,
LL> what the weather was like two thousand years ago really is not known.

Read above paragraph of mine as response to this just-above one of yours. . .

LL> The term "rabbi" could have been used in an informal
sense, rather than
LL> in a formal sense.  IOW, a teacher could be referred to as rabbi, even
LL> if that teacher was not a real rabbi giving sermons in a synogogue.
LL>
LL> GP>Quite likely the disciple meant it in the literal sense
("my teacher")
LL>
LL> Quite possible, and even likely.

Okay, we're on the same page for this one!

LL> Presuming Jesus was born prior to 4 B.C., He could not have
LL> begun his public ministry until he was 30 years of age, because
LL> He was crucified, died, and buried during the time Pontius Pilate
LL> was procurator (26 A.D. to 36 A.D.).

Who says he did begin it before he was 30 years of age? Luke suggests he was
"about 30" (and that's a physician's opinion)

Like I said, the calendar evidence suggests quite clearly that he was arrested
on a Wednesday night in 33CE after the first Passover Seder Jesus shared with
his posse('family' of sorts)

LL> The most exact one can know for certain is between 26 A.D. and 36 A.D.
LL> You could be right about 33 A.D.  But I am not sure anybody can know for
LL> certain the exact year.

If we accept the gospel accounts as having historical value, we know that
Jesus' crucifixion occurred just prior to a Sabbath(Friday sundown) that
occurred after Passover that fell on a Wednesday (Thursday would be
"Preparation Day" only given those circumstances; and this is the
only way he
could have been claimed both to have been buried between Passover & the
Sabbath, to have risen on the first day (Sunday) AND to have been buried 3
complete days. . .

Moot details -- the only issues at issue, are whether one accepts the Gospel
accounts, and, too, whether one accepts that Jesus died at some time and was
subsequently resurrected at some later time, plus, of course, what that should
signify to one, if one accepts it all as facts!

LL> >SA>The wording in the KJV is "caught up", as in
what I once saw a
LL>
LL> GP>This is the literal meaning of the term "raptura". . .
LL> GP>(as in "seized", thus this term being applied to a
certain dinosaurian c
LL> GP>flying reptiles made famous in the movie "Jurrassic Park")
LL>
LL> "Holy Pteroctadyl!", Robin said to Batman.  :)

You're accusing me of saying, "water is wet"? *G*

Your friend,
<+]::-{)}  (Cyberpope(the Bishop of ROM!))


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