Happy 186th Birthday to the LDS Church: April 6, 1830-2016!

[flameburns623]

Wednesday will mark the 186th yar since the founding of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

[LeSellers]

Also one of my beautiful granddaughter's birthdays, but she's not 186.

Lehi

P.S. I'm among those who believe that it also marks the 2016^th birthday of the Savior of mankind. LS

[unixknight]

Indeed, the Spring birth makes much more sense... though maybe that should be 2010th, since the calendar was adjusted at some point and it was found to be 6 years off, placing the Birth of Christ in AD 6.  

(Counter intuitive, I know, but the alternative would have been to adjust current dates by 6 years and that's way more complicated.)

[LeSellers]

10 minutes ago, unixknight said:

Indeed, the Spring birth makes much more sense... though maybe that should be 2010th, since the calendar was adjusted at some point and it was found to be 6 years off, placing the Birth of Christ in AD 6.  

(Counter intuitive, I know, but the alternative would have been to adjust current dates by 6 years and that's way more complicated.)

There is no definitive way to identify the date of Christ's birth. However, the evidence I trust (section 20) makes it cler for me.

That said, there is evidence that it was April 6, 1 bc. There was an eclipse of the moon in Mar 1 ad (as I recall reading: I am not near my library right now). Since most people use Josephus (?) account of Herod's dying after such an eclipse, it gives Joseph (no relation) time to go to Egypt with his stepSon as the Gospel relates.

Those same "most people", usually adjust the date from 1 bc back by four years, and I don't recall seeing a forward adjustment to ad 6 anywhere before.

Any way, I know what I believe, and why. I also know it doesn't really make much difference.

Lehi

[Aish HaTorah]

On Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at 11:31 AM, unixknight said:

Indeed, the Spring birth makes much more sense... though maybe that should be 2010th, since the calendar was adjusted at some point and it was found to be 6 years off, placing the Birth of Christ in AD 6.

(Counter intuitive, I know, but the alternative would have been to adjust current dates by 6 years and that's way more complicated.)

Completely a topic for another thread, but am I reading this correctly?  Do you believe that Yeshua would have been born around Pesach (Passover)?

[tesuji]

36 minutes ago, Aish HaTorah said:

Completely a topic for another thread, but am I reading this correctly?  Do you believe that Yeshua would have been born around Pesach (Passover)?

Apparently so.

http://en.fairmormon.org/Jesus_Christ/Date_of_birth

[Aish HaTorah]

19 minutes ago, tesuji said:

Apparently so.

http://en.fairmormon.org/Jesus_Christ/Date_of_birth

Very interesting.  I shall read it, thank you.  I have so very much to learn about your beliefs.

Edited April 15, 2016 by Aish HaTorah

[unixknight]

1 hour ago, Aish HaTorah said:

Completely a topic for another thread, but am I reading this correctly?  Do you believe that Yeshua would have been born around Pesach (Passover)?

I think it's likely, yes. 

[tesuji]

1 hour ago, Aish HaTorah said:

Very interesting.  I shall read it, thank you.  I have so very much to learn about your beliefs.

If you're interested in a brief overview of our beliefs, mormon.org is a good place