Ages of the Apostles

[_John Larsen]

Monson will be the youngest president in 30 years.

John

[_krose]

Thomas Monson - 80
Boyd K Packer - 83
L. Tom Perry - 85
Russel M Nelson - 83
Dallin H Oaks - 75
M. Russell Ballard - 79
Joseph B. Wirthlin - 90
Richard G Scott - 79
Robert D. Hales - 75
Jeffrey R. Holland - 67
Henry B. Eyring - 74
Dieter F. Uchtdorf - 67
David A. Bednar - 55
Quentin L Cook - 67

How did Bednar get in there? He's just a baby.

[_Gazelam]

Actually Christ is the head of the church, and he's like 2002 years old now.

I hear he's pretty tough about changing with the popular culture as well.

Think its his age ?

You're kidding, right? According to what or whom?

Actually if you want to go along with the dating that Christ was born 6-4 BC (Herod died in 4 BC) timeline then Christ would be 2012-2014 (-3 days for that siesta in the cave).

The Star at Christs birth was recorded by Chinese and Korean stargazers, who observed an object thought to be a nova or a comet around 5 BC. This object was observed for over 70 days with no movement recorded. Ancient writers described comets as "hanging over" specific cities, just as the Star of Bethlehem was said to have "stood over" the "place" where Jesus was born. This was refered to as a tailess comet, some think may have been a nova.


From Edersheim: " The first and most certain date is that of the death of Herod the Great. Our Lord was born before the death of Herod, and, as we judge from the Gospel-history, very shortly before that event. Now the year of Herod's death has been ascertained with, we may say, absolute certainty, as shortly before the Passover of the year 750 a.u.c., which corresponds to about the 12th of April of the year 4 before Christ, according to our common reckoning. More particularly, shortly before the death of Herod there was a lunar eclipse which, it is astronomically ascertained, ocurred on the night from the 12th to the 13th of March of the year 4 before Christ. Thus the death of Herod must have taken place between the 12th of March and the 12th of April- or, say, about the end of March. Again, the Gospel-history necesitates an interval of, at the least, seven or eight weeks before that date for the birth of Christ (we have to insert the purification of the Virgin- at the earliest, six weeks after the Birth- The Visit of the Magi, and the murder of the children at Bethlehem, and at any rate, some days more before the death of Herod). Thus the birth of Christ could not have possibly occured after the beginning of Febuary 4 B.C., and most likely several weeks earlier." (Edersheim 2:704.)

We should add that if the slaughter of the Innocents by Herod occured not weeks but a year or so after our Lord's birth, as some have concluded from the recitation in Matthew 2, then the whole reasoning of Edersheim would be extended an appreciable period, so that Christ could have been born on April 6 of 5 B.C.