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To: Wpin

“Where did you get that? I have never heard of a calendar ESTABLISHED by G-d.”

I would suggest reading the Torah. The calendar was establish by G-d in Exodus, which would be in any Bible:

http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0212.htm#2

“What’s wrong...are you afraid of typing G-D???”

No. I do, however, obey His laws. (Or at least try to.) We do not write G-d’s name in a place where it may be discarded or erased. Treating G-d’s name with reverence is a way to give respect to G-d.

http://www.jewfaq.org/name.htm

“What does any of that have to do with what I said anyway?”

You (or another poster or posters, don’t recall) was upset about the use of “CE” or “BCE”). The response to this is Jewish people will use the Gregorian Calendar, even though it is based on pagan Roman practices, as the Gregorian calendar is generally used in the secular world, but decline to adopt language that promotes a religious worldview with which they disagree.

In other words, the BCE or CE is a compromise.

If Jewish people were as stubborn as those that demand “AD” or “BC,” the calendar dating would be the Hebrew calendar.


51 posted on 02/23/2010 7:56:29 AM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: Jewbacca

I did go to the site you linked to...I think it is a very far stretch to say that that is God’s calendar in the context we were discussing on this thread...

I was not aware that Jewish folks think it is sacrilegious to spell out God. Thanks for pointing that out. In my faith, there is no problem with it...as you can see.

I don’t think the Jewish scholars had much to do with taking Jesus Christ out of the long, long designation describing the modern era. If it were Jewish involvement then perhaps they would have changed the dates of the “Common Era” to be something other than the general birth of Jesus/death of Jesus. I think it is far more likely that the power behind the evil is from atheists. But, I really do not know who started it.


52 posted on 02/23/2010 9:19:25 AM PST by Wpin (I do not regret my admiration for W)
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