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Ted Ashton <[log in to unmask]>
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Ted Ashton <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 28 Oct 1997 09:02:47 -0500
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Thus it was written in the epistle of Tracy Johnson,
> On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Lou Cook wrote:
> > Some further thoughts. Again, as the subject line states, WILDLY OFF-TOPIC!
> > Read on at your own risk!
> >
> > > Opinion: Today Is the Day
> > >
> > >  By STEPHEN JAY GOULD
> > >   The most popular version, devised by Archbishop James Ussher in 1650
> > > and widely propagated by inclusion in nearly all subsequent editions of the
> > > King James Bible, set the moment of creation at Oct. 23, 4004 B.C. --
> > > precisely at noon.
>
> I've been looking through my edition of the King James Bible, I can't
> find anywhere the inclusion of this date as stated above.  Can anyone
> tell me what page it's on?
>
As a serious answer to a tongue-in-cheek question, it obviously isn't in there.
What the Bible (KJV or otherwise) has to say on the subject is:

    "Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the
     Son of man cometh."  (Matthew 25:13)

    "But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which
     are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father."  (Mark 13:32)

and so forth.

Ted
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Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Serv, Southern Adventist University
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