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Ok Spin. I am sorry. I will get that information and will be sure to remember the next time I post something.

Hello-- I am trying to debunk something that I had read a few years ago on a Christian website. A statement was made that when Josephus talked about the priests hearing voices saying-- let us depart-- from the temple during the feast of Pentecost, that that was the Holy Ghost leaving the temple-- an...

Hello-- I am trying to debunk something that I had read a few years ago on a Christian website. A statement was made that when Josephus talked about the priests hearing voices saying-- let us depart-- from the temple during the feast of Pentecost, that that was the Holy Ghost leaving the temple-- an...

I just used my calculator-- sorry! It was an interesting thought however! I think that these "mysterious" writings will never be fully understood.

Sorry, is your math off? When it divide 6000 by 7, I get 857 not 587.

So sorry-- I forgot to post the article!


http://www.livius.org/articles/religion ... e-messiah/?

I was looking into Herod and the story that he killed all of the children under two due to his hearing that the king or Messiah had been born-- per the story in Matthew. But this didn't seem to have happened as no one else mentions it until years later when the gospels were familiar. I found this ar...

The Talmud mentions this several times-- that the Sanhedrin were "banished" or "exiled" 40 years before the temple was destroyed-- I believe that this is to show the evil that existed in the area and to explain why the temple was destroyed by god.

I was looking over my old post on the rending of the veil. It got me thinking more about the Sanhedrin and why they moved 40 years prior to the temple destruction. The Talmud states hat they banished themselves because they couldn't or didn't want to hear anymore capital cases because Jerusalem was ...

Here is another website that discusses the issue from a jewish perspective:

www.judaismsanswer.com/Yoma39.htm