So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.

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30. The thing is,

It doesn't matter what the name of the calender is, picking on that idea is just an irrelevant detraction. The bigger issue is this - every calender ever thought up by mankind based on celestial objects (the Sun, Moon a Star or a Constellation) drifts over time. It has to do with the slightly irregular orbit of the Earth around the Sun and the Earths wobble and other factors. The first calender some guy scratched out on a bone in some dark cave somewhere drifted, and so does the one we use today. Matter of fact, in 2016 we will add a day to February and consequently add a new day to that year in order to correct the calender drift. We deal with calender drift in the same manor earlier civilizations dealt with it - we add a day. The concept is called Intercalation and isn't new at all. We call our system a leap day/year. We're adding a day just like the Bible says God added a day. I mean, if you stop the Sun and the Moon for an entire day, like it says God did in the Bible, the consequences of that action would be that you add an entire day to the calender. The story didn't say God stopped the Sun and the Moon for 1 1/2 days, 2 days, 6 day's or 42 1/4 hours. The priests had God essentially add a day to the calender. Nothing weird about that, is there? no. we do the same thing today. And the writers of this story knew very well the importance of what they were saying. They were superstitious and ignorant but they weren't stupid. And calenders were a very serious matter and they didn't just tinker with them at will.

Wikipedia and other sources say "In 238 BCE, the Ptolemaic rulers decreed that every 4th year should be 366 days long rather than 365". The farmers didn't like the idea much probably because they were just so used to another system but the rulers wanted it because they saw the system as more efficient. But regardless, we can see the leap year idea (adding a day) was something being talked about hundreds of years before The Common Era and probably much earlier than that still.

That's pretty simple to understand.

The old Testament Bible story that contains what I'm talking about was just made up propaganda, obviously yes. God didn't actually stop the Sun and Moon right? Right. But the story was not just made up out of thin air for no reason whatsoever. The story itself is a vitally important part of the alleged covenant God made with his chosen people. It was propaganda with a very serious real purpose. It wasn't just a made up story simply to claim my God is bigger than your God or anything like that at all. It's a very very important well thought out story with a very real important purpose.

The priests didn't have to add the part about God stopping the Sun and Moon either but they did. They could have had God call up a huge fire tornado and have it suck Israels enemies down into the earth, or anything else they could imagine. They had God stop the Sun and Moon and add an entire day and that part had a real purpose as well. It's just a small clue in the mountain of other clues that the Bible is just a collection of stories (allegories) that were based upon astrology, the caleder and other celestial events like planetary alignments and the like. That's all it is. It's no biggy.


There's some really nice photo's of Jesus walking on water in the video below. See if you can spot him. Here's a hint.

(John 8:12) Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.