Category Archives: Uncategorized

“For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.” Matthew 17:20 As a grain of mustard-seed – The mustard-seed was the smallest of all seeds. ItContinue reading “Faith of a Mustard Seed”

James Ussher (1581-1656), Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of All Ireland, and Vice-Chancellor of Trinity College in Dublin was highly regarded in his day as a churchman and as a scholar. Of his many works, his treatise on chronology has proved the most durable. Based on an intricate correlation of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean histories andContinue reading “BISHOP USSHER DATES THE WORLD: 4004 BC”

Thu, Sep 25, 2003, 01:00  A 17th-century Irish prelate reached the heights of scientific sophistication in estimating Earth’s age, writes Mary Mulvihill In 1650 the archbishop of Armagh, James Ussher, began counting all the “begats” in the Old Testament. He also studied ancient Egyptian and Hebrew texts, analysed how the ancient calendars were calculated and cameContinue reading “How an archbishop calculated the Creation”