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Talk:John 1-7 (Translated) (view source)
Revision as of 15:02, April 30, 2011
, 15:02, April 30, 2011→(John 4:52) Which answer would you give to a kid in Sunday School who asks: How did the servants knew that it was 1 o'clock?
People could tell time 2000 years ago. In fact, people could tell time 5000 years ago. A sundial is one obvious way; there may have been others too.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 15:33, 17 April 2011 (EDT)
People could tell time 2000 years ago. In fact, people could tell time 5000 years ago. A sundial is one obvious way; there may have been others too.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 15:33, 17 April 2011 (EDT)
:Indeed, they could. But not very exactly. For sundials in the first century, an error margin of 10 minutes was all too common. (cf. Karlheinz Schaldach: ''Römische Sonnenuhren'', Verlag Harry Deutsch, 2001) [[User:AugustO|AugustO]] 11:02, 30 April 2011 (EDT)
===(John 4:46-54) You wrote: ''The instantaneous healing is central to the purpose of the event.'' and ''the point of the story is that it happened at the same moment''. How so? Why had the healing to be spontaneous, when the creation of the world took six days?===
===(John 4:46-54) You wrote: ''The instantaneous healing is central to the purpose of the event.'' and ''the point of the story is that it happened at the same moment''. How so? Why had the healing to be spontaneous, when the creation of the world took six days?===