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Originally Posted by Jacob11
Perhaps you should rethink your definition of "lack of necessity".
Exodus 20:8-11 makes it overwhelmingly clear that dates must be measured.
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Maybe it's not necessary to measure the date if you don't mind burning in hell for all eternity, but for the rest of us, well, I'm always mindful of my calendar!
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Of course, an uncontacted group of people with no connection to modern society has probably never heard of Jesus or the Bible, so the importance of avoiding hell is substantially less meaningful to them. So again, insofar as they can determine, the necessity of understanding time does not exist.