Jesus was born in 6 B.C, how comes?

Question

We are all aware that B.C means before birth of christ, or before christ, how come that He was born 6 B.C......Somebody?

Answer 1

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 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 0 AD. That is not the crucial issue. The birth, life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Christ are the "turning points" in world history. It is fitting, therefore, that Jesus Christ be the separation of "old" and "new." BC was "before Christ" and since His birth, we have been living "in the year of our Lord." Philippians 2:10-11,

Answer 2

It was not until many many centuries later that the idea came about to create a measure of time based on the birth of Christ as a boundary, with time measured backwards and forwards. The monk who had attempted this feat needed to relate activities in the Old and New Testament to activities measured through secular sources to get a common frame of reference. That he could come to within six years without the aid of a computer or any other form of data processing is a miracle in itself.

Out of political correctness, many sources no longer use BC and AD (anna domine) but instead use BCE and ACE (before and after the common era).

Answer 3

I see no one answered your question.

A monk named Dionysius Exiguus in 525 calculated the conception of Jesus. Most scholars believe he was wrong. However, a number of future writers began using his system including the Venerable Bede.

The date is not known but is estimated to be between 8 BC and 2 BC depending on who is doing the calculation. I have also seen one estimate of 2 AD for his birth.

The AD begins with the acceptance by Mary of the birth of Jesus as announced by the Angel Gabriel.

BC and AD split at his conception not his birth. As such, there is no year 0. It wasn't really used until the 700's following the end of the consuls in the Christian East.

Answer 4

The time measurment BC and AD are very unstable, it's best to use BCE (before common era) and CE (common era).
Jesus may have been born in 6 BCE.
Also, AD does not mean "after death", it is an abreviation for Anno Domini which means "in the year of our lord jesus christ". It was used for the time measurment of when he was walking on Earth, not after he died.
So using BC as before christ, and AD as after death (even though that is inaccurate, people decide to use it anyways), there is still a gap. What do we call the time when Jesus was walking on Earth?

Answer 5

WRONG

Gennesis (begetting) December 25, 3 B.C.

Birth September 29, 2 B.C.

Baptism October 14, A.D. 29

Crucifixion April 3, A.D. 33

Answer 6

Gregory made a mistake when he changed to calendar. Its easier to just say Jesus was born in 6 b.c. than to change the calendar all the way back.

Answer 7

How old was Jesus at his baptism?The scriptures answer:
"Jesus himself,when he commenced his work[right after being baptised]was about 30 years old"(Luke3:21-23).If we count back 30 years from Jesus baptism in 29CE(
remembering there is no zero year between the BCE and CE periods of reckoning),we find that he was born in 2BCE.
Lending support to this date is the prophecy of the "seventy weeks of years".It indicates that the Messiah,would be killed in the middle of the 70th" week".(Dan.9:27).This means that Chris's ministry was three and a half years long.It began at his baptism in 29CE,and ended with his death at the Passover in 33CE(Luke 22:7-20).Counting back 33 1/2 years(the length of Jesus'earthy life)also enables us to calculate the year of his birth as being 2BCE.

Answer 8

Is the answer you were looking for because he is not the Christ?

I guess they screwed up with the dates when they made our calender because they didn't do the research properly. Now they have the dates right and they say he was born almost 2008 year ago.

Oh and don't listen to people that say AD is after death. it is anno domini meaning in the year of our lord.

Answer 9

Jesus was born.itself is a news!It divided time into BC and AD.But the old calledar was replaced by Gregorian callendar.Only possibility is that due to date adjustment confusion it is stated as 6 BC

Answer 10

I always thought BC stood for before calendars