tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post5132160889847716340..comments2024-03-17T08:25:33.806+00:00Comments on Thoughts of Francis Turretin: Counting Down with Camping ...Turretinfanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01802277110253897379noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-48123874421472092972011-06-08T14:29:06.409+01:002011-06-08T14:29:06.409+01:00"Was that Apr 1, 33 on the julian calendar or..."Was that Apr 1, 33 on the julian calendar or the gregorian (which did not exist at that time)?"<br /><br />Possibly his system would work if the Gregorian calendar were back-numbered to that time.<br /><br />"Isn't there ten days difference between the two calendars? Also are years divisable by 100 not leap years in the gregorian calendar except years divisable by 400? Has Turretinfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01802277110253897379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-2217004622646328802011-05-17T20:50:28.943+01:002011-05-17T20:50:28.943+01:00TF:
"...Thus, the number of days from an eve...TF:<br /><br /><i>"...Thus, the number of days from an event until any given days maybe a different number of months or years, depending on your calendar, but it will be the same number of days."</i><br /><br />Because of those words I want to comment on an overarching idea that the Holy Spirit has communicated through the Scriptures to produce a new "lifestyle" mindset among Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-53662281365226044082011-05-17T14:47:58.447+01:002011-05-17T14:47:58.447+01:00What I mean by that is that solar days are the mea...What I mean by that is that solar days are the measure of days in every calendar system. Thus, the number of days from an event until any given days maybe a different number of months or years, depending on your calendar, but it will be the same number of days.Turretinfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01802277110253897379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-13979069595338558002011-05-17T14:46:30.603+01:002011-05-17T14:46:30.603+01:00Of course, the number of days doesn't depend o...Of course, the number of days doesn't depend on what calendar one uses.Turretinfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01802277110253897379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-67813413311229344272011-05-17T14:45:52.582+01:002011-05-17T14:45:52.582+01:00"Ye observe days, and months, and times, and ..."Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. {11} I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain. " (Galatians 4:10-11) <br /><br />While this applies to going back into Jewish ritualism, what Camping effects is not a looking to Christ in His return, but a focus upon knowing the time of His coming. <br /><br />This actually works contrary to the pursuit of PeaceByJesushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08754948549904895669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-64359160183082884372011-05-17T13:58:58.667+01:002011-05-17T13:58:58.667+01:00Everyone on here should try to call in to his show...Everyone on here should try to call in to his show and ask him about his wacked out ways of interpreting the Scripture. I called and asked about his spiritual reading of Gen. 7:4 and 2 Peter 3:8. The discussion was edited out of his Open Forum archive. When i called to ask if they edit that show, the person who answered the phone said she did not know. I asked her if she could connect me with Kendallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02462553852524694427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-191737251986089642011-05-17T05:14:39.183+01:002011-05-17T05:14:39.183+01:00Beyond the fact that "No man knows the day or...Beyond the fact that "No man knows the day or the hour" making Mr. Camping out of his tree. The calendar premise is wrong, since the Hebrews, as well as most other cultures of the time, used a LUNAR calendar. Even the modern Jewish calendar doesn't correlate exactly with the ancient calendar. On average, the moon revolves around the Earth in about 29½ days. The Earth revolves aroundTalmidinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11247080312842283392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-72448874892903498442011-05-17T00:04:59.086+01:002011-05-17T00:04:59.086+01:00Glad to see you reproving this esoteric eschatolog...Glad to see you reproving this esoteric eschatologist, with his any-digit-will-do hermeneutic. <br /><br />I was moved to supply a refutation of Camping a while ago also <br /><a href="http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/Camping.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> <br /><br />The grievous reality is that in an age of increasing skepticism of any authority, and attacks on the Bible, Camping is giving PeaceByJesushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08754948549904895669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-85145094184791475012011-05-16T04:31:37.243+01:002011-05-16T04:31:37.243+01:00I've reposted a short story I wrote last year ...I've reposted a short story I wrote last year on this very subject, with a few minor changes, if anyone is interested:<br /><br />http://the-porters-lodge.blogspot.com/2011/05/answer.htmlPilgrimsarbourhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18046918223325823689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-76930007853217291972011-05-15T21:03:11.696+01:002011-05-15T21:03:11.696+01:00If I am not mistaken, when we count, we should cou...If I am not mistaken, when we count, we should count exactly as God does?<br /><br />He told Moses, which parenthetically applies to all of Jesus' predictions as recorded in the Gospels, this is the first day of the first month to you and you should count x y z days so that these things reoccur!<br /><br /><b><i>Exo 12:1 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, <br />Exo 12:2 Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-58118467723115796392011-05-15T20:10:32.297+01:002011-05-15T20:10:32.297+01:00Oh wait...you dropped the 1978 years figure all to...Oh wait...you dropped the 1978 years figure all together!<br /><br />Whaaaaaaaa?<br /><br />I'm losing my mind...Pilgrimsarbourhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18046918223325823689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-27919006671393024922011-05-15T20:07:41.922+01:002011-05-15T20:07:41.922+01:00Oh, never mind. I see you fixed it to read April 1...Oh, never mind. I see you fixed it to read April 1, <b>2011</b>.<br /><br />Boy, that really threw me!Pilgrimsarbourhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18046918223325823689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-74406701553825476782011-05-15T20:04:40.596+01:002011-05-15T20:04:40.596+01:00April 1, 33, to April 1, 1978, are exactly 1978 ye...<i>April 1, 33, to April 1, 1978, are exactly 1978 years apart</i><br /><br />I don't get it. How can 33 A.D. to 1978 A.D. be 1978 years? Wouldn't one subtract 33 from 1978 and get 1945 years, give or take for "extra" days and such?Pilgrimsarbourhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18046918223325823689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-49220313080906668112011-05-15T17:47:20.434+01:002011-05-15T17:47:20.434+01:00Well, quite interestingly, I hope natural life end...Well, quite interestingly, I hope natural life ends as we know it on either date!<br /><br />We would then be through with Camping and other bothers and burdens and yokes and loads!<br /><br /><br />1Th 5:14 And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all. <br />1Th 5:15 See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-5365160864480440942011-05-15T16:54:30.964+01:002011-05-15T16:54:30.964+01:00Was that Apr 1, 33 on the julian calendar or the g...Was that Apr 1, 33 on the julian calendar or the gregorian (which did not exist at that time)? Isn't there ten days difference between the two calendars? Also are years divisable by 100 not leap years in the gregorian calendar except years divisable by 400? Has anyone considered this problem yet?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-60527470700178471652011-05-15T13:37:45.572+01:002011-05-15T13:37:45.572+01:00Say What?
That is so far over my head, my brain a...Say What?<br /><br />That is so far over my head, my brain ain't no way gonna take that in.<br /><br />"You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect."-Luke 12:40<br /><br />But I understand this truth for my Savior. He says that He may indeed come back in a couple weeks, and if He does, "Are you ready?"<br /><br />I am. In fact, I hope donsandshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03665794015011057098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21597890.post-29225315820892860732011-05-15T05:21:36.997+01:002011-05-15T05:21:36.997+01:00That's his engineering training creeping in. ...That's his engineering training creeping in. Ultimately an engineer fabricates whatever is required to make his system work in practice as he's envisioned that it should work in theory.<br /><br />Incidentally, as anyone knows who's worked with engineers, this predictable vocational tendency typically results in cost overruns and delays.<br /><br />Perhaps this explains why Mr. Coram Deohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03504564435400500996noreply@blogger.com