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Narrows it down a bit, I guess 🤷🏻
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I mean I'm not a Bible expert but do we have bounds on the size of the temple? Because until we do, Jesus's size is still unbounded above 🤔
Well the temple is on Earth, so smaller than the Earth, probably.
And made by humans, so no bigger than the largest human-made structure
We can estimate from the remains of structures so establish a theoretical upper-bound. If I had to guess, I'd say he was 7 ft, since as far as I know, 7 is the Hebrew number associated with perfection.
They prolly did not use american imperial units tho
Imperial units didn't come from America.
I know but USA imperial units are different from UK ones, just like how american english has some differences with standard english.
I assumes they were using USA imperial units since IIRC UK now also uses metrical units to some degree eg: they use centimeters to measure people's height
Edit: i may have confused UK and Canada in the last paragraph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_Kingdom
To be very pedantic, in the USA they're not imperial (we left the British Empire, we had a whole war about it), they're "US Customary Units" and they're defined in metric lol
People are reading that passage wrong anyway. Most Bible scholars agree that just because Jesus fitted into the temple doesn't mean he would fit into the temple at all times. When he was in his giant mecha form, Jesus had no upper bound on his size.
Solomon left some rather precise measurements so that would give you an idea of dimensions, I think.
Good point. Could have been something akin to St. Peter's Basilica, or could be more like Cross Island Chapel 🤔
I don’t think they could have constructed saint Peter’s basilica at this time or anything near the size of those archers, there is like a 1500 year difference between the two.
Side note: I’m not religious, but St Peter’s basilica is probably the most impressive building I’ve ever seen in my life. Someone feel free to recommend competitors.
I went all the way to St. Peter's Basilica just to experience the most American thing ever. The old Texan couple in front of me in line.
Husband: "I don't get what the big deal is, we have bigger buildings than this in Texas."
Wife: "Oh, but honey, I don't think they had power tools back then."
Husband [clearly not impressed]: "Hmmm..."
TBF, with religious buildings, magic is on the table.
There would be some geological record if he'd manifestly affected global tides. So, less gravitational mass than the moon, for sure.