We know that the X tian count of the years since Yushke s birth is erroneous. The phenomena of the global fear of Y2K is a fear in the collapse of world order. We know that the way the world is, if it collapsed that wouldn t necessarily be bad. People will have to learn. For that they have to be prepared.
Shock is antithetical to learning.
IF you ever get in front of a class, the ones who aren t blinking are not going to score well on the test. The X tians narrowed idolatry from 300 down to 3. The Moslems transformed the 3 to One. Both succeeded in not just presenting their halves of the world with new ideas but in inducting into their belief systems an anticipation of a messianic figure and a messianic time. Concepts which were totally foreign to paganism.