Space Impact 'Saved Christianity'

BBC ^ | 6-23-2003 | David Whitehouse

[HelloooClareece]

Fascinating.

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[aruanan]

And God's not going to use celestial mechanics to get his point across as needed? Ha ha. After all, look what he did to Sennacharib.

BTW I just picked up a new paperback edition of that book about comets by Baille (sp?).

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam. We've seen this one before, maybe it's an FR topic; also, I think there was a topic or just an article about a study which claimed this wasn't an impact crater. :')

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[unspun]

It really is the Noory Hour.

[blam]

"BTW I just picked up a new paperback edition of that book about comets by Baille (sp?)."

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a39b91ca42b27.htm

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/714636/posts?page=52#52

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/931431/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1332192/posts?page=20#20

some duplicates:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/714636/posts?page=49#49

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/756422/posts?page=34#34

[SunkenCiv]

just in case...

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[SunkenCiv]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1011346/posts?page=11#11

[DannyTN]

Cool.

Of course, scientists always look for the natural explanation and God is on record for using nature at times. Meteors are natural but you really have to wonder about meteors that explode with the inscription "Conquer by this".

[AmishDude]

Should we all pray towards it and go there, with a few of us dying in the stampede every year?

[SunkenCiv]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirente_crater

http://www.ees.lanl.gov/news/archive_apr_june_2006.shtml

http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/37224

[blam]

Disaster That Struck The Ancients

[SunkenCiv]

Crater, now the Rose Hill Amphitheater, Henderson TX:

http://www.cratercraze.com/

[SunkenCiv]

Odessa Meteor Crater

A shower of meteaorites slammed into the Earth some 20,000 years ago, leaving a crater over 500 feet in diameter. exit I-20 at F.M. 1936(south) drive west on frontage road 3.4 miles till you see the sign.

[ModelBreaker]

"...about noon, when the day was already beginning to decline, he saw with his own eyes the trophy of a cross of light in the heavens, above the Sun, and bearing the inscription 'conquer by this'.

Meteors frequently bear inscriptions.

[geopyg]

And the meteor going in two directions and intesecting its path (a cross).

[AdmSmith]

At the Battle of Milvian Bridge October 28, 312, Constantine was successful mainly due to his superior military skills and the incompetence of the engineers used by Maxentius for construction of the temporary wooden bridge.

Constantine did not establish Christianity, although the Edict of Milan gave religious freedom. The god Sol Invictus, the Unconquered Sun, featured prominently on Constantinian coins and monuments in the years before and after the battle indicating that he kept several beliefs as a hedging strategy.

Constantine was responsible for switching the day of rest from Saturday (Sabbath) to Sunday, the first day of the week in the Jewish Calendar, as well as the day of the Resurrection, and the day which the Roman state had dedicated to Sol Invictus (hence Sun-day), the main rival religion to Christianity at the time, and of which Constantine was chief priest (pontifex maximus) until his death.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_I_and_Christianity

Many still erroneously believe today that the Edict established Christianity as the sole faith of Rome, a change which didn't take place until the early 390s, under Theodosius I.