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Showing Original Post only (View all)Jesus was born years earlier than thought, claims Pope [View all]
The entire Christian calendar is based on a miscalculation, the Pope has declared, as he claims in a new book that Jesus was born several years earlier than commonly believed.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/the-pope/9693576/Jesus-was-born-years-earlier-than-thought-claims-Pope.html
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This means it is actually 2016 already..... time for another Presidential race!!!!
scheming daemons
Nov 2012
#2
It would also push creation back from 4004 to 4008 BC and make the earth 6023 years old!
FarCenter
Nov 2012
#5
So Jesus was born BC and I'm chronologically a few years younger. I like it.
libdem4life
Nov 2012
#10
Actually, I've heard that we may not have translated those passages well. Shocker.
gkhouston
Nov 2012
#23
My interest in the Pope is with a person in a position of power. I find it interesting that...
Poll_Blind
Nov 2012
#32
Pope fires salvo in War on Christmas. Bill 'Draft-Dodger' O'Reilly (R) is gonna be pissed
Berlum
Nov 2012
#36
A fictitious character was born earlier than a previously recognized arbitrary date...
SidDithers
Nov 2012
#43