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mountainman · 04-17-2011, 11:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Minimalist

Far more likely that none of it ever happened at all.

Its quite clear that Constantine hijacked the Panhellenic celebration of the vernal equinox as the official "Christian Easter". This was one of the important matters discussed at Nicaea - the canon of Constantine's bible was not mentioned. But they could not have made a worse decision.

Pope Gregory had to massively reform the calendar as a result of Constantine's edicts.
Three cheers for Pope Gregory!

Constantine clearly did not seek or take the advice of the Greek philosophers,
astronomers and mathematicians, who were aware of precession. The Christians
were easily confused over celestial chronology because they were not impressed
by the study of astronomy.

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Originally Posted by Origen

"The consequence of this doctrine would be to annihilate completely our freedom of action, which, in this system, would no longer be worthy of either praise or blame, nor of being encouraged or reproved. If it is so, everything one lets resound about God's judgment is senseless (...) faith would be in vain, the coming of Jesus Christ to earth would have accomplished nothing, all the value of the law and the prophets would become worthless (...) A further effect of this atheistic and impious discourse would be to assign the faith of those acknowledged as believers in God as a result only of the power of the stars."

--- Eusebius Pamphilus (PE 6.2)

See also: Constantine and the Zero Ayanamsa estimates .
During which epoch did the divergence of the Tropical and Sidereal Zodiacs first begin?
No prizes given for the answer on this.

mountainman · 04-18-2011, 09:20 PM

Gregorian calendar

I'd be interested in hearing about any opinions as to why the history of easter as derived from the planetary vernal equinox is not ultimately related to the calendrics and chronology used to calculate the easter weekend and the appearance of leap years. Has anyone ever taken a look at the algorithm used to calculate these two things, and the history of adjustments that have resulted since the Council of Nicaea?

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mountainman Contributor Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Falls Creek, Oz. Posts: 11,192	Gregorian calendar I'd be interested in hearing about any opinions as to why the history of easter as derived from the planetary vernal equinox is not ultimately related to the calendrics and chronology used to calculate the easter weekend and the appearance of leap years. Has anyone ever taken a look at the algorithm used to calculate these two things, and the history of adjustments that have resulted since the Council of Nicaea?

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