How did people caculate years before christ was born?

Answer 1

From new moon to new moon and sabbath to sabbath 360 day with make-up to 365 as we do today, As for long life span, the first day would be 1000 as perfect, but for sin that was lost and life got shorter and after the life sustaining earth was lost in the flood, life got even shorter.

This is the time the bible gives.

Eph.3:21[World with Jesus never ends]; Rev.17:1-6,10-14[World of Satan does end, #1 to #5 gone when Jesus here in #6, John in #6, bible in #7, Jesus again in #8]; Matt.24:3,7,14,15,22,36[Only God knows day and hour, or if cut short]; Rev.10:6;
Job 38:4-7; Angels saw earth become the focus for habitation];
John 17:3,5,24[Jesus was with God before the world was];
Luke 20:34-36[Angels do not die, but do sin Jude 6; 2Pet.2:4];

Gen.1:1,2; All existed, time evident as billions.
Gen.1:3-31[Earth is focus. Rev.20:1-6; 49.000 years]];

1656 to flood.[130-105-90-70-65
0000-PLUS-162-65-187-182-600 = 1656, flood.
1656 flood.
0000 Noah + 350 = 2006 Gen.9:28,29; + 2 + Gen.12:4,10,13; Abraham.
0427 years to Abraham age 75 and he get the covenant year 2083.
0430 years to Moses age 80 Exo.7:7; 12:40,41[430]; 1553 before Christ.
0040 years to the Promised Land. Deut.1:3; 29:5; 34:7; 1513 before Christ.
0480 years to Solomon year 4 king. 1Ki.6:1;
0036 years [of 40], Solomon dies. 1Ki.11:42; 997 before Christ.
0391 Judah Kings=Babylon captive #3. Matt.1:1-17;
3460 + 2520 = 5980 after Adam and 606 years before Christ. Dan.9:24-27;
0606 years Christ in Roman Empire #6. [3460 + 606 + 1914 = 5980].
4066 years Christ in Rome,age 30 Matt.4:1-11; 4066 + 1914 = 5980 + 150 = 6,130
2006 years ago Christ Jesus in Roman Empire #6. 5980 & 6,072 now in 2006 CE.
0000 6,130 years for Satan from Eden to Rev.20:1-6[1000]; years.
0000 4066 to Christ, 1914 Satan down, tribulations 150 years =
6,130 after Eden. [Now 6,072 after Eden, 2612 past #3 and 2006 CE];
1000 year reign of Christ will end all perfect again
7130 after Eden ends [7x 7,000 = ]49,000 years
as earth the focus to be domesticated.2Pet.3:13; Rev.21:1-5;

Answer 2

By the year of the reign of a king. Further back in time by the year in the life of a Patriarch, the older patriarchs being born in the year their ancestor died, see Harold Camping "Adam When?". The previous answer giving long lists of years is in error.

Before the Kings of Israel, there were 360 years of Judges. before that 40 years in the Sinai, 430 years in Egypt, ect... A major correction would be that there were actually 6,023 years from Creation to the flood, see Camping, ref. above. There were some mistranslations the words translated "beget" are not all spelled the same in Ancient Hebrew, some are more like progenerate, refering to distant offspring, we have to add the total years of life spans for most cases, as Camping proved.

Answer 3

stupid is as stupid does ,,,man that girl is thick --- not you that one above this -- the hebrews have a calender that comes from the times of adam,, and how do they figure the years from adam to the offspring of him they could recall all of the elders that came before them,, in the beginning of the gospels it rehearses the geneology of jesus christ from adam and the generations and the ages of the elders were written in the exoodus and so on ,,so they know they are of the tribe of judah and of the house of david its a family tree ,,,now when aramaic was given to the scribes of the temple in babylon the hebrews came back ,,and changed some of the spellings but the ancient words and the events were written down,, before they were sung by priests,, and so the songs became a record of words ,,and then numbers as the taxes and tithes came from everyone to the temple the calender was born its not a guess its from the discovery channels reports on soloman and the temples

Answer 4

that answer will vary depending on the part of the world u are located. There were many calenders in existence before christ. even after christ, the spaniards discovered the natives like the Mayans had very advanced calendars. Many cultures like the chinese and jews still track time with their own calenders.

Answer 5

One thing is sure, there was no BC.... The countries, lands, kingdoms, separated by seas and oceans had their own culture, language, religion etc.. From history, we notice that people liked to remember a good and noble king and for a long time. So they referred to the passing time as " so many years after or before so-and-so-King"... So if you look at the historical chronicles of that land, such references to years are found most commonly.

Answer 6

People would calculate years by comparing to kings or emperors reigns, sometimes to the Olympics (in Greece), sometimes to some real or imagined historical event. The Jews and Muslims have different date reckoning systems. I advise you look in to those to see how people reckon dates in different ways even now.

Answer 7

Pretty much the same way, the solar and lunar calendars have been around since before 1 AD...they've just been modified...

Answer 8

they counted the days and the seasons in biblic time the evening and the morining were counted as a day that is from sun down till sun up

Answer 9

they kept wondering when the messiah would arrive so they could update their calendars and make christmas plans.

jk-they used a different babylonian system altogether-some people still use the hebrew calendar.

Answer 10

I don't think they put importance in time and dates the way we do. Didn't the monks invent the modern calendar?