I'm not talking about the date he was actually born, which was never unequivocally stated. You're correct that so-called Christianity adopted the date of a pagan holiday.
I was talking in the sense that we use a nomenclature that refers to things as B.C. and A.D, with the implicit recognition that our counting of years, forwards or backwards is based on the year Christ was born. Tom C. ----- Compounding things, Christ was actually born around 6 to 4 B.C. That is, Christ was born Before Christ. This site is interesting: http://www.westarinstitute.org/Periodicals/4R_Articles/Dionysius/dionysius.html except that Dionysius Exiguus was born in what is now Romania, not Russia. Religions take time to evolve a fully-fledged belief system. Moslems, of course, eschew graven images. Yet 7th century Islamic coins in the Near East copied Byzantine forms, with many early Islamic coins showing the emperor holding a cross. This must be what the PDML is about. We are an evolving cosmology. So these posts are not OT after all. I may be in Israel in mid April. I'll try to stop by this tomb and get everyone the definitive answer. But I am still trying to figure out how the Swiss Navy fits in. Joe -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
