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@Deborah~ and @JSRG I went to look the reference up, and I now see why I couldn't find it. The program I use that has the Church Fathers' writings is literally missing book four in Hippolytus' commentary on Daniel. It has a link, but the page is blank. I have no earthly idea why.

That link went to a disabled webpage. I'll see if I can find it elsewhere.

Now that I see the whole quote, I can say with certainty that it’s an interpolation, and not a genuine quote. Christ’s death in the year of the Gemini, viz. the consulship of C. Fufius Geminus and L. Rebellius Geminus (29 CE), was a position held much later, in the fourth and fifth centuries...

Concerning Luke . . . I'd be appreciative if you would digest this for a bit before giving a knee-jerk response. Luke says, "And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth [ . . . ]," etc. (Lk. 1:26) Because of Luke 1:24 and Luke 1:36, "[ . ...

First, the Apostolic Constitutions is a fourth century work, written or composed well after the establishment of December 25th as the day of the nativity. You'll note that a forty-day period of Lent is also mentioned, which wasn't established until the first Council of Nicaea. A good deal of...

Source citation for this, please. To clarify, a source citation that says what you're saying, and not an example of a single instance where a date in a singular year fell on a particular day of the week in that year. You need corroborative evidence that the same dates coincided with the same...

Okay. That still doesn't prove your contention.

This is the part that requires hard evidence that you have yet to supply. There is ample literature of the period to demonstrate various calendar dates falling on different days of the week. If the Sabbaths were fixed to specific calendar dates, then all the festivals would be on the same...

I would have to say that God chose Nero. God often uses wicked kings (vessels of wrath) to fulfill his purposes. Pharoah was used for his glory. God hardened his heart to be against Israel so God could be glorified. Nebuchadnezzar was used to lay waste to Jerusalem when God deemed Israel worthy...

You told me a whole bunch of stuff that I suspect you know I already know. I have shared some of my work with you. But you still didn't offer the citation I asked for. If Clement specified December 25th, I would like to see it. I know of nothing prior to the fourth century CE that gives that...

Don't misunderstand me. I didn't offer an opinion. I offered a strategy for a solution. If "ideal" to you is to buy a piece of property, build a house, and build an in-law house in the back so your parents can do as you suggest, then that is the, "what you want to do." The next step is to make a...

The only thing you've proven here is that the seventh day of the week, called the Sabbath by the Jews, was called the day of Saturn by the Romans. I don't disagree with this. But you haven't actually proven that specific days of the week were fixed to specific dates of the month. Pointing out...

Make a decision. Make a plan. Make a move. In other words, decide what you want to do, determine what you need to do to make it happen, and then make it happen. The old expression, "cut your losses," might apply in this case. Make your decisions and plans based on what is, not what might be.

Can you please provide the reference for Clement? Stromata 1.21 gives the date 25 Pachons, in the 28th year of Augustus, which is May 20th, 3 BCE. This date, of course, I find consistent with Luke's narrative, which gives an approximate conception in the month of Elul (obviously in the year...

Since I know from firsthand, personal study and research that virtually everything you said is incorrect, but wanting to keep an open and objective mind all the same, feel free to rewrite all of that with primary source material cited. Without source material to investigate, I'm not going to...

No, I think you make the point nicely. I suppose the difference falls to the specific doctrinal variance. If the church as a whole, for example, believes that Jesus is God in the flesh, and you have one offshoot that believes he is not, then that offshoot is rejected by all. In most other...

My thumb's up to you for this question. I am of a similar mind. All denominations have it wrong on one point or another. If incorrect doctrine is all it takes to be condemned, then we're all doomed. Admittedly, some cults/sects/offshoots/denominations have some really bizarre doctrines...

Yeah, I suppose. I won't argue that. People don't like rebuttals nowadays. Everyone just wants to be declared right, and be patted on the back for their genius. But I will say that the Revelation opens by saying that what was shown thereafter was "signified" by the angel, which is to say that...

Think of "wept" in the same sense as love. The English word, "wept," means to cry. Context supplies the degree. As I've heard argued, Jesus didn't merely cry, or shed a tear. It was an anguished weeping. I haven't honestly done the word study on it. This is something I heard from someone else...

Jesus wept is certainly self-explanatory. The English translation in that case, however, is weak. The impression given by the translation is some tears. But the Greek uses a word that means a weeping more like a heart broken loss. It’s still, nevertheless, self-explanatory. The other passage is...