The Leap Year 8 BC (L'Année bissextile 8 BC)
Mr. Muammar Muhammad al-Gaddafi1 seized power onn September 1, 1969
It is enough. He must be judged by history or Allah.
In Japan, Mr. Ichiro Ozawa was elected as Lower House member in 1969, which was his first entry to a national election. Since then, he has kept his seat without a single loss of an election. And, even today, he is regarded as taking the lead in the coming election to choose the head of the DPJ and thus the new prime minister of Japan.
One big problem for Mr. Ozawa is that he cannot run for the party election though his faction consists of about 100 among 400 DPJ national lawmakers, since he is under indictment for suspicion of illegal political fund handling.
You may find details about his case in past entries of this EEE Reporter blog, though.
SECTION I: Why No Exact Year of Christ's Birth?
If the Vatican has kept direct and uninterrupted link with Christ Jesus, why cannot it determine the exact year when Christ Jesus was born?
Two independent approaches have been used to estimate the year of the birth of Jesus, one by analyzing the Nativity accounts in the Gospels of Luke and Matthew along with other historical data, the other by working backwards from the estimation of the start of the ministry of Jesus, as also discussed in the section below...
Most scholars generally assume a date of birth between 6 and 4 BC/BCE.[67] Other scholars assume that Jesus was born sometime between 7–2 BC/BCE...
However, the common Gregorian calendar method for numbering years, in which the current year is 2011, is based on the decision of a monk Dionysius in the six century, to count the years from a point of reference (namely, Jesus’ birth) which he placed sometime between 2 BC/BCE and 1 AD/CE...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus#Possible_year_of_birth
The Vatican praises Christ Jesus and brandish the Gospels, but no Popes could ever answer the exact year Christ Jesus was born. Of course, no Protestant priests have clues as to the exact birth year of Christ Jesus. And, they all claim that they respect Christ Jesus.
The point at issue is that the Christian community in the world has never done sincere efforts to find the exact year when Christ Jesus was born in these 2000 years. So, I am afraid that Christ Jesus will say to them, "Verily, I say to you:'I don't know you.'"
For example, Caesar was born on 13 July 100 BC; Alexander the Great was born in July 356 BC; David was born in 1040 BC; and even Confucius was born in 551 BC and the Buddha was in 563 BC. But why does not anybody, including the incumbent and past Popes, know when Christ Jesus was born? What is worse, they don't even know when St. Peter and St. Pau; were born, respectively. Then, what organization is the Vatican?
SECTION II: Catholic Education on Christ's Birth Year
It is surprising to see how irresponsible the Vatican is in pursuing the birth year of their Lord.
CATHOLIC EDUCATION CENTER
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To complicate matters further, it seems that Dionysius' made an error in his calculations. Herod the Great, who the Bible says was alive at the time of Christ's birth, died in the year 4 B.C., based on the reports of Josephus. According to the Gospel of Matthew, when Herod was unable to trick the astrologers into leading him to the Child, he ordered the slaughter of all the male babies in Bethlehem. Since Herod's command (which is not attested outside the Gospels, but is consistent with his historical character) was to kill all babies under age 2, this event occurred no more than 2 years after Christ's birth. If we assume that this happened near the end of Herod's life (which seems likely), this puts Christ's birth in the year 5 or 6 B.C.
In that case, the 2000th anniversary of Christ's birth has already gone by, having been in 1993 or 1994. Naturally at the distance of years, it is practically impossibile to say with certainty what year Christ was actually born, though sometime between 7 B.C. and 1 B.C. seems all but certain.
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/facts/fm0004.html
The Vatican respects in word Christ Jesus. But, they do not know when Christ Jesus was born. Could it be possible? St. Peter must have known it. Successors of St. Peter must have known it. But, all the Popes in the past have not known it. While the Vatican compiled such a big volume of the New Testament, they do not know when Christ Jesus was born.
Isn't something wrong? Even Cleopatra's birthday was identified as December 70 BC or January 69 BC.
SECTION III: Theories
According to a recent astronomical study, a great eclipse of Jupiter by the new moon or the crescent occurred, in a manner that captured great attention of then astrologers, that is, on the horizon, on March 20 and April 17, 6 B.C.
(In 6 B.C., a Roman Governor in Syria is said to have held a census count.)
There is also a description that the parents of Child Jesus traveled due to a census count, and gave His birth in a not so cold environment.
Therefore, Jesus Christ might have been born in April 17, 6 B.C.
However, Jesus must be born on the 360th day of the year, since He was born as one of descendants of Abraham, a son of the Sumerians in Mesopotamia who had started the use of the duodecimal calculation method, that is, based on the base number 12 or 60.
Therefore, He must be born on December 25th of a leap year that has 366 days, from a view of the current calendar system, since:
December 25 (360th), 26 (361th), 27 (362th), 28 (363th), 29 (364th), 30 (365th), and 31 (366th).
And, according to recent study on a calender which was found in 1999 to have been used in the Roman Empire around 24 BC, leap years 2000 years ago were as follows:
...11 BC, 8 BC, AD 8, AD 12,...
As the Roman Emperor found a defect in the calendar, he stopped the application of a leap year between 8 BC and AD 8. So, there were no leap years between 7 BC and AD 7.
In this theory based on glory of the Sumerian tradition, Christ Jesus must have been born on December 25, 8 BC.
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In the revolution of Libya, hundreds of people must have lost their lives.
It is a real tragedy.
By the way, why did a magnitude-5.8 earthquake occur in the State of Virginia, the East Coast of the U.S., today? It is said to be the most powerful on the east coast of the U.S. since 1897.
One noteworthy episode today is that Mooody's cut the grade of Japan's debt one step lower to Aa3.
Incidentally, it is said 46% of Americans pay no federal income tax, while 26% of Japanese households pay no tax due to poverty. How can you compare Japan with the U.S. in this context?
Mar 8:22 And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and besought him to touch him.
Mar 8:23 And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought.
Mar 8:24 And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking.
Mar 8:25 After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly.
Mar 8:26 And he sent him away to his house, saying, Neither go into the town, nor tell it to any in the town.