Torah Chronology (bible, faith, bishop, Adam)

[DanielbenIsrael]

Yom Sheni Shalom,

I thought I start at the beginning. We number the years of the world from 1. 1, 2, 3 ... and so on, just like the days of the month, or the days of the week. So the number assinged to a day, month, or year is rounded up to the nearest whole. There is no "zeroth" year.

A persons "age" however is calculated by rounding down to the nearest whole. When someone is age 1, that means they have already lived a full year, but have lived less than 2 years.

Here is how it works out with Adam and the years of the world:

1 world = 0 Adam
2 world = 1 Adam
3 world = 2 Adam

And so on.

Did you know that Bishop Ussher, the Rabbis, and every other chronologer (except yours truly) have to my knowledge made this mistake:

1 world = 1 Adam
.... and so on.

But when they get to Seth's birth, its like this:

130 Adam = 0 Seth
131 Adam = 1 Seth

Which is correct. But why didn't they do it from Adam too?

Hmm, how does Adam get to be age-1 on the day he was created?
If you want to skip ahead you can see my first powerpoint, Adam to Solomon:

http://www.torahtimes.org/PowerPoint/TheBibleCode03.ppt

That just a preview of where I'm going with this thread.

Could it be that straigtening out a little mistake like that brings revealing things from bible chronology?

Daniel

[Elessar]

Sigh.

I fail to see how this has ANYTHING to do with the Messianic faith.

[DanielbenIsrael]

Well it does, but its rather subtle. I'm going to post a new thread on Daniel 9 and Rabbi Halaphta. It seems that only hot button issues are interesting.

Daniel

[Jedwabny]

How do you know that the Torah holds to this principle of numbering the years? May be "the second year" in the Torah mines that it is 1 year and 1 day at least?

[Jayhawker Soule]

Originally Posted by DanielbenIsrael

Did you know that Bishop Ussher, the Rabbis, and every other chronologer (except yours truly) have to my knowledge made this mistake:

( ... red flags should be going up ...)

[Elessar]

Originally Posted by Jayhawker Soule

( ... red flags should be going up ...)

Indeed.

[Ben Sinai]

Daniel Ben Yisrael,

This is very interesting. Have you seen anything as yet where this changes anything that most have conceived to be truth as far as a date goes by being one year off? Anything substanial?

[ATAT]

Could it be that Adam was made into a man, not a baby?