Yom Sheni Shalom,

      I thought I start at the beginning.    We number the years of the world from 1.    1, 2, 3 ... and so on, just like the days of the month, or the days of the week.   So the number assinged to a day, month, or year is rounded up to the nearest whole.   There is no "zeroth" year.

      A persons "age" however is calculated by rounding down to the nearest whole.  When someone is age 1, that means they have already lived a full year, but have lived less than 2 years.

      Here is how it works out with Adam and the years of the world:

1 world = 0 Adam
2 world = 1 Adam
3 world = 2 Adam

And so on.

       Did you know that Bishop Ussher, the Rabbis, and every other chronologer (except yours truly) have to my knowledge made this mistake:

1 world = 1 Adam  
.... and so on.

But when they get to Seth's birth, its like this:

130 Adam = 0 Seth
131 Adam = 1 Seth

Which is correct.  But why didn't they do it from Adam too?

    Hmm, how does Adam get to be age-1 on the day he was created?
If you want to skip ahead you can see my first powerpoint, Adam to Solomon:

http://www.torahtimes.org/PowerPoint/TheBibleCode03.ppt

  That just a preview of where I'm going with this thread.

  Could it be that straigtening out a little mistake like that brings revealing things from bible chronology?

Daniel