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QUIZ - Is there such a thing as February, 29, 2000?

The following words I read as a teenager from a publication, 'Divine Promises and Their Fulfillment'.

I cannot recall the writer as I no longer have the book in my possession; so I share the words as I remember them:

Though study long and hard you may

You learned depth will soon perceive

Philosophy has but this to say

True knowledge is: Man must believe

publisher: New Apostolic Church

Questions that have been asked, then answered, the answers revoke and refuted, and now the questions being asked:

a) What is our purpose?

b) What are morals (as opposed to morality) and principles?

c) Where do these morals and principles come from?

d) What is the metaphysical and the soul?

As time progresses, I will include my thoughts on these topics, and invite you to correspond with me on the issues.

The Gregorian calendar, instituted in 1582, replaced the Julian calendar which was in place since Julius Caesar's time in 46 B.C. This was because the start of Spring (in the northern Hemisphere) moved from March 23 (days of Julius Caesar) to March 11 (days of Pope Gregory XIII). So the calculate which year to observe a leap day (29th February), the following is used:

- years evenly divisible by 4 are leap years;

- with the exception of centurial years that are not evenly divisible by 400.

Based on the above considerations,

- the years 1700, 1800, 1900 and 2100 are not leap years,

- the years 1600, 2000, and 2400 are leap years.

Maybe we should have stuck to the calendar system that God gave to Moses in the Old Testament.