The Bible says Methusaleh lived 969 years.  The Julian calender wasn't around then.  What calender was?
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I can't think of a single culture that had a calendar and did not have an approximately 365 day year. It's just something you notice, and it's not really avoidable.
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LONG ONE:\nSplitting the year up into 365 days was easy - everybody knew what a day was, and everybody knew what a year was, so they just counted up how many days there were in a year. This happened all over the world, many times, independently in different cultures. When one group of invaders came along to politely ask another group if they would mind, say, changing their religion, the agressors would say "You've got a day to think about it before we smash you up". It's unlikely these two nations would speak the same language, so this would take a lot of hand waving and pointing at the sun and moon to get across, but across it would nevertheless be gotten. There was no need to go into deep astronomical calculations, because the concept of a day was universal - even newly introduced mortal enemies who didn't have a word or belief in common, would at least have a measurement in common.\n\nGood story below\n\nBryan crooked his right thumb to touch the base of his right index finger (please follow along and do it, too), and said, in much the same way as a Sumerian might have, 4,000 years ago... "One."\n\nHe then moved up a notch - see that? Each of your fingers has three distinct segments. I never really noticed that! - and, touching now the middle segment of his right index finger with his right thumb, he said... "Two." \n\nI think you may sense where this is leading. By the time your right thumb has counted each of the three segments of his neighboring four fingers, you're up to 12. \n\nLong before people were reading with their lips, one imagines, they were counting with their fingers. \n\nSo a day was divided into 12 segments, called hours; and, too, the night. \n\nWhat a lovely story. It was all the ancient Sumerians' fault! The ancient Babylonians inherited this quaint practice, and presumably added their own 60-fetish to divide the hours into 60 minutes, and the minutes into 60 seconds. The Babylonian fascination with the number 60 is interesting in itself - so interesting, in fact, that it suggests the Babylonians were the ones who split up the day, using geometric series:
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Although the ancient egyptions had a calendar that was divided into 12 months of 30 days, the current 12 month calendar has been in place since Feb 24, 1582.\n\nSee the page below.
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2006 CE (common era). BC and AD were changed to "Before Common Era (BCE) and CE. They're based on the same numbering, so many people argue that it's just a dumb PC way of saying BC and AD. \n\nMore importantly, perhaps, is that 1 AD was most likely NOT the birth date of Jesus (http://www.aloha.net/~mikesch/year.htm). He was most likely born around 5 AD. Remember measurement tools weren't quite as accurate back then. At the end of the day it's just about standardization. Jesus was also probably born in the summer, not December. But that date fit with the holidays of other religious at the time Christanity was spreading. It's always been about what's easiest...
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The Gregorian calendar was NOT used until the 16th century...Before that, it was called the Julian calendar.\n\nAn estimate of the birth of Jesus was changed from 0 to about 6-4 B.C. because of the discovery of the supposed mistake...\n\nAlthough A.D. means after Christ's birth, the Gregorian calendar was not adjusted anymore...Therefore the 21st Century still started in the year 2000 A.D.
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It was a Sunday.\n\nGet 100 year calendar at \n\nhttp://calendarhome.com/cal100/
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Gen 5:25  And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech: \nGen 5:26  And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters: \nGen 5:27  And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
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It is also the date of birth for Mithras. Thats why early Christians hijacked it as the birthdate of their own false God - to make the religious festivals more attractive to the heathens living around them.... \n\nMithras was also born of a virgin, died and was buried in a rock tomb, and was ressurected after three days. Sound like anyone familiar?
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Don't worry your little head over it, they said the same thing about 6/6/66. It ain't gonna happen, all date setting is useless. The Father Only, had this information, during the Incarnation of Jesus. He kept it in His Own Power & Devine Knowledge till Jesus returned to Heaven & once again took His Seat as God. The Bible says, "He willingly laid aside His Godhood, not thinking It to be something to hold on to. So He could taste Death for every man. Having done so He returned to Heaven, and we know Him no more after the flesh." He took up His Godhood, and now when He returns, He comes back as God Almighty. No man will be able to hurt Him as they did 2,000 years ago. He will slay 200,000,000 with the Sword of His Mouth (His Word) and split the Mount of Olives in two when He arrives at Jerusalem, after Armageddon is finished. Then the Jews will recognize Him as Messiah,  "When they look upon Him Whom they pierced." The nimber 666 is the numerical value of the name of a man who will become the anti-christ. There are 3 things that will be used in the anti-christ kingdom for people that wish to buy or sell. 1. His Mark (currently unknown) 2. His name (currently unknown) 3. The number of his name (666 currently all we know of the anti-christ) The Scriptures call him "the king of the North" "the Assyrian, the oppressor of God's People." This points to modern day Syria, it is due North of Jerusalem. Keep your eyes on Syria, I think the anti-christ will prove the Scriptures Right once again. By the way, God's Name adds up to 777 & Jesus adds up to 888. God's being Perfect Completeness & Jesus' being the number of New Beginnings. 6,000 yrs from Adam, 1,000 yrs for the Millinium equals 7,000 years. Eternity begins at the end of Jesus' 1,000 year Reign. God Bless, Pastor "B"
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God has limited man's life to 120 years- you can read it in Genesis chapter 6. Before that, men like Noah lived to be over 500 years old (Shem was born to Noah when he was 502).\n\nThe days were also shorter (360-day years vs. 365-day years), which accounts for the 130 year-old Jehoiada.
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the romans,its refered to as the julian calendar
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Year zero. 5766 years ago, according to the bible.
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Catholics and most Protestants use the new Gregorian calendar decreed by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582.\n\nThe Greek Orthodox Church uses the old Julian calendar introduced in 46 BC by Julius Caesar.
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I think it's June 6th, 2006.  Nothing more.  Kinda like Jan. 1, 2000 was.  Our dates and any number associated with them are pretty much arbitrary.
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Try an almanac.  Or maybe there's an almanac.com or something like that.
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The Mayan "long count" calender turns-over in 2012.  This has far more to do with their counting system and way of writing dates than with any particular "forcast of doom."\n\nThink about it this way: You hit 100,000 miles on your car's odometer.  It rolls over and starts at "0" again.  Did you old car come to an end, only to be replaced by a new car, or did you just run out of digits in the system that measures how far you have traveled?  The Mayan long count calender starts over in 2012 for the same reason.
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Scripture doesn't mention Jesus's birthdate or any christians celebrating His Birthday. The only birthday mentioned besides Pharoah is the heathen king Herod. "Christmas" means "mass of Christ"; the celebration coexisted in Rome before there was any in Jerusalem. The early Roman Church however did establish a pagan festival that (Jer.10) coexisted with Jesus's Birth and that was the birthday of the sun god. (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th ed., article: "Christmas"). The Catholic sources admit that Christmas didn't co-exist with the earliest festivals. Jesus wasn't born Christmas; even scripture makes this evident. "On the night of Jesus's birth, the shepherd's were still keeping watch over their flocks." (Luke 2:8). The rainy season in Ancient Israel began after the Feast of Tabernacles which generally is early October. In November, it would be cool and wet; the flocks from the pasture had already been brought and kept in winter quarters by the shepherds. This tells us the shepherds were no longer in the fields at night. Another peice of evidence is overlooked is in Luke 1:35-36; it tells us John the Baptist was born to Mary's cousin Elizabeth six months before Jesus. And as we look further in verse 5-17, we see Zacharias an elderly priest burning incense on the altar and then an angel appearing to him and telling him that he and his wife would have a son to prepare Christ's Way. We know however when this announcement was made by the angel because of Zacharias was "of the course of Abijah" Please look at 1Chron.24:1-19; it tells us that King David divided these priests into 24 "courses" that served in the temple by rotation. The Course of Abijah would be the 8th of the 24 courses which usually would occur around the end of May. Pentecost came the week after the 8th course served and he had to serve all 24 courses during the three festival seasons. So Zacharias came home approximately after the first week of June; in which John the Baptist was conceived around mid-June and 9 months later would be his birth. John Baptist's birth came around mid-March while Jesus's was around mid-September. Also notice every year people claim 3 wise men seen Jesus in a stable; is this really true? The Bible nowhere states "3 wise men" or "that the wise men visited Jesus in a stable". Read for yourself: (Matt.2:11); these Magi came from the east beyond the Euphrates River which in the 1st century was called the Parthian Empire (the eastern border of the Roman Empire). \n\nI can't finish this: so you would have to see it on:\nhttp://community.webshots.com/photo/271589370/1342393463049373547FazWzQ