Okay, so
@cfposter and
@EclipseEventSigns, since you're both now on the same thread and I can address you together . . .
As per posts #1 and #82, you are both of the opinion that Jesus died in 31 CE. Based on the lunar sighting of April 11th, 31 CE, which was at 11° altitude and 12° angular separation, we have a passover date of April 25th in the case of
@EclipseEventSigns. Based on the lunar sighting of March 13th, 31 CE, which was at 18° altitude and 19° angular separation. we have a passover date of March 27th in the case of
@cfposter. April 25th was a Wednesday. March 27th was a Tuesday.
In the case of
@cfposter, my understanding of his belief is that the days of the week were fixed, meaning that specific dates always fell on specific days of the week. Ergo, he concludes an
actual date for the passover of eight days before the kalends of April, which is March 25th, and in that particular year a Sunday.
@cfposter is in error. The holidays shift and rotate with the year. The Talmud makes plenty of arguments about what to do when this holiday or that falls on a Sabbath. We have different timetables for the sacrifices depending on whether it was a normal day, the day of preparation, the Sabbath, the eve of the passover on the preparation, the eve of the passover on the sabbath, the passover on the day of preparation, the passover on the Sabbath, whether the Sabbath supersedes certain observances, leap days for Elul if the 1st of Tishri is going to fall on a Wednesday or Friday, causing the Day of Atonement to run sequentially to the Sabbath, either one day before or one day after. So you are just wrong in this. If you want to be taken as a serious academic, lick your wounds, move on, and change your perspective. That's what objectivity is. If you insist on maintaining an erroneous point of logic that is not merely unsupported, but that is directly contradicted by known fact, then you're just another hack.
@EclipseEventSigns, whether or not you think you've supported your statements (which I have firmly observed to not be the case), and whether or not you think that I just don't understand, and blah, blah, blah, ad nauseum . . . The fact remains that you have not proven your point. Maybe you think you provided facts. Perhaps in your mind they
are facts. But you haven't proven that Jesus was 34 when he was baptized. You haven't proven that Jesus was born in 6 BCE. And although you make a laudable argument for a 31 CE crucifixion, you still haven't conclusively proven it to be accurate.
To both of you . . . I have given both of you the same set of scriptures. I have given you both the exact same argument. I have demonstrated with plain, blatant, unambiguous scripture that Jesus ate the Passover at the last supper.
@EclipseEventSigns, you ignored it. You haven't answered to it yet. You carry on as though I never said anything about it at all. You're so convinced of your own hypothesis that you refuse to even acknowledge the elephant in the room.
@cfposter, you've taken the time to ask questions. I'll give you credit for that. But your approach from the get go has been to contradict them. They say what they say, but because what they say doesn't mesh with what you want to believe, you, too, essentially ignore them. The both of you can ironically notice the tiniest things. You pride yourselves on finding mathematical patterns, date comparisons, overlooked things in the narratives, the discovery of methods lost to every scholar of reputation besides yourselves, and so on. But when you are confronted with three blatant, unambiguous passages that state unequivocally that Jesus ate the Passover at the last supper, the both of you clam up and look for any excuse to deny it, contradict it, or ignore it.
JESUS ATE THE PASSOVER AT THE LAST SUPPER. Get it through your heads. Both of you.
There this passage about not casting your pearls before swine, etc., which I take to mean not wasting something valuable on someone who isn't going to appreciate it. That being said, I refuse to cast my pearls before swine. This will be the last time I say this. I'm done after that.
The Passover occurred on Friday, not Wednesday. Jesus was crucified on the 15th, not the 14th. This is not because I said so. This is not my opinion. This is scriptural fact, testified by three witnesses. The afternoon preceding the last supper was the first day of unleavened bread, which is the 14th of the month. The afternoon preceding the last supper was also the day when the Passover was slain, which is the 14th of the month. Jesus had two disciples procure a room at the goodman's house so he and the disciples could keep the Passover. Jesus also had those two disciples go and prepare the Passover. The two disciples did as they were instructed and both procured the room, and made ready the Passover.
Jesus therefore ate the last supper on the evening of the 14th day of the month. He was arrested that night after dinner when he and the disciples went to walk in the garden of Gethsemane. He was tried that night, condemned the next morning by the Sanhedrin, and then taken to Pontius Pilate who had him crucified. The day that follows the 14th, for you math geniuses who can ferret out hidden patterns and intercalary cycles, is the 15th.
For a Wednesday crucifixion to be possible, Jesus would have had to die on the 14th, which he did not. The gospels are clear that the day following the crucifixion was a Sabbath. For a Sabbath to follow a Wednesday, it would have to be of the holiday variety; i.e. it would have had to be the Sabbath of the 15th associated with the Feast of Unleavened Bread. If Jesus was crucified on any other date, the Sabbath following the crucifixion could
only be that of the weekly variety. And since Jesus, according to the testimony of three gospels, was crucified on the 15th, that leaves only Saturday for the Sabbath requirement of the day following the crucifixion.
This is not opinion. This is not a point of view. This is scriptural fact. Embrace it or not as you choose.
@EclipseEventSigns, if a Wednesday crucifixion is impossible, which it is, then 31 CE is impossible. If 31 CE is impossible, then a good deal of your hypothesis is incorrect, regardless of any sources you think you've cited. Your length for his ministry is wrong. Your year is wrong. Your day of the week is wrong. Your date is wrong. As asked of
@cfposter, do you want to be taken as a serious academic at some point? Or do you want to be a hack? You have to be objective. Don't be a dog with a bone, unwilling to let go. The scriptures say you're wrong. Accept it.
I'm out guys. Pearls and swine and all that. If you have something constructive to say, I'll join back in. But I won't continue to rehash stuff when people are too stubborn to listen to blatant scripture.