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To: MrDem
Ok Bible Wonks! If the date was 42 B.C. - 37 A.D., shouldn’t this guy have been the Cesar during Christ time? But I thought that was Augustus Caesar.

Ok I'll bite.

#1 - Tiberius was BORN in 42 B.C. His reign was 14-37 A.D. http://www.roman-emperors.org/tiberius.htm

#2 - Augustus was Caesar at the birth of Christ - Luke 2:1-5 - "Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census be taken of all the inhabited earth. This was the first census taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3And everyone was on his way to register for the census, each to his own city. 4Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David, 5in order to register along with Mary, who was engaged to him, and was with child."

Augustus was actually born with the name Octavius and was a nephew of Julius Caesar. He reigned as Augustus from 34 B.C. to 14 A.D. but he had a role much earlier on during the period of the 2nd Triumverate as early as 43 B.C. But it wasn't until he had defeated Marc Antony & Cleopatra that he was declared Caesar and changed his name to Augustus in 34 B.C. He died in 14 A.D. and Tiberius became Caesar.

#3 - Tiberius Caesar was on the throne during the period of the crucifixion of Christ. Luke 3:1 - "Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip was tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene,"

Any more questions???

19 posted on 09/28/2009 7:51:52 PM PDT by conservativegramma (Palin has my vote: whoever the media hates I love)
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To: conservativegramma

“Any more questions???”

Yes. Ever notice how much Roddy McDowall, (who played Octavius (Augustus) in Cleopatra, looked like him?


23 posted on 10/20/2010 10:06:13 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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