Time line question.

[puddle jumper]

I have a question about dates/time. As we all know BC meant before Christ and AD meant after death. What was time called wile he was alive? I have asked a few people and no one can answer it.

Please do not turn this into a religious thread as i know that these dates are based on religion.

 

[Sean-Nos]

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Common Era or christ Era, I think.

 

[i386]

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I don't know the answer to your question but AD stands for the Latin phrase "anno domini" which translates to "In the year of our Lord."

 

[puddle jumper]

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I don't know the answer to your question but AD stands for the Latin phrase "anno domini" which translates to "In the year of our Lord."

So AD may not mean after death but the year he was born. That is totally different from what I have been lead to believe/taught. I don't think many people know that as common knowledge.

 

[puddle jumper]

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Common Era or christ Era, I think.

This what more along the lines I was thinking.

 

[dingbat]

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So AD may not mean after death but the year he was born. That is totally different from what I have been lead to believe/taught. I don't think many people know that as common knowledge.

There are lots of "beliefs" that have no bearing on reality. Just ask Galileo

Question: "What is the meaning of BC and AD (B.C. and A.D.)?"

Answer: It is commonly thought that BC stands for "before Christ" and AD stands for "after death." This is only half correct. How could the year 1 B.C. have been "before Christ" and 1 A.D. been "after death"? BC does stand for "before Christ." AD actually stands for the Latin phrase "anno domini" which means "in the year of our Lord." The B.C. / A.D. dating system is not taught in the Bible. It actually was not fully implemented and accepted until several centuries after Jesus' death.

It is interesting to note that the purpose of the BC / AD dating system was to make the birth of Jesus Christ the dividing point of world history. However, when the B.C. / A.D. system was being calculated, they actually made a mistake in pinpointing the year of Jesus' birth. Scholars later discovered that Jesus was actually born in around 4-6 BC, not 1 AD

 

[rbh]

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If jesus was born 4-6 BC not 1 AD, How the heck do I reset my calender.

 

[JB]

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BC, as before Christ, has been judged insensitive to all other religions, so those years are now referred to as BCE, Before the Common Era, and dates since then as CE, or in the Common Era.

This was in order to get several other calendars to "trade in" their own historically oriented dates to adopt the "Christian" calendar dates as the "Common" calendar.

 

[QC]

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Just ask Galileo

I would but he is AD . . .

 

[JB]

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I have a question about dates/time. As we all know BC meant before Christ and AD meant after death. What was time called wile he was alive? I have asked a few people and no one can answer it.

Please do not turn this into a religious thread as i know that these dates are based on religion.

I believe during Christ's lifetime, and for many years after, the Hebrew calendar was used. Not real sure about that because there were many different calendars in use in those days.

 

[IES99]

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The dates are confusing. "Census of Quirinius" in Luke's Gospel for tax purposes occurred in 6/7CE (AD) during the reign of the Emperor Augustus, while Quirinius was governor of Syria.
While the Gospel of Luke has the birth of Jesus taking place during the census, the Gospel of Matthew places the birth about a decade earlier (about 4 BCE), while Herod the Great was king. The bottom line is that we don't know the year of Jesus' birth.
We don't even know the date. (Dec 25 was arbitrarily chosen because by that date it is clear that the sun is returning in the northern hemisphere. Also December 25 is just after the Roman holiday period "Saturnalia" ended.

 

[puddle jumper]

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If jesus was born 4-6 BC not 1 AD, How the heck do I reset my calender.

that would make me 4-6 years older noooooooo

 

[puddle jumper]

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So if I am understanding this correctly. There really was no era in between BC and AD. The day BC ended was the day AD started. Plus Jesus really didn't factor into it other than he was born close to this time and his popularity.

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