If BC was before christ and AD was after death then what did they call the 33 years he was alive?

Question

I'm not being a smart alec I am a christian this is a serious question please answer seriously.

sorry apparently I am, as some of you have said " a retard" didn't realize it meant something else. didn't get to finish school. My mom had a stroke my Jr year. Guessed I missed that in history.

Answer 1

Good question except that the calendar was created at a later time and AD is Italian for anno domini which literally means "year lord" which basically translates as the year of the lord. Thus once he was born it became AD (atleast that was how it was supposed to work).

Scholars, scientists, and academia today have kept with the calender system but have changed the words BC and AD to BCE and CE so as to be more secular (because afterall many people outside of Christianity also use this calendrical system for science and wanted something that was more secular). Thus BCE stands for Before the Common Era and CE stands for the Common Era.

Religiously speaking Christians still use the BC and AD terms just as other religions use the proper notations with their calendar systems.

The website http://www.religioustolerance.org has a great section on religious calendars. I believe the exact link is http://www.religioustolerance.org/calendars
It will cover the various religious calendars in use, the notations like SE, AD, BC, etc, etc. There are also some great books on calendars that you can check out at your public library. One book that I read even included a conversion chart so you could look at and find out what year in the various different calendars (month, date, and year I should add) you were born, what today was, etc. It was a very nice feature and the book did a great job of explaining how the calendars came into existence. It not only dealt with religious calendars, but ancient calendars, too. It looks like a really big and thick book, but actually it is all the conversion tables that make it so big, the book itself goes into detail about each calendar, but that is usually only about three to four pages long.

Answer 2

Some say Christ was born in 4BC. From there you count backwards 3 2 1 & then its 1 AD. So the 33 years of Christs life would be during AD.
By the way if your ever trying to count numbers for prophecy remember to add 1 year because there's no year that begins with "0" . It starts with 1AD.

Answer 3

AD is NOT after death, its Anno Domini, latin for "In the Year of Our Lord"

tommysportsgirl is also right, the precise year of Christ's birth is unknown, but believed to be 7BC - 4BC. So all the people freaking out about the year 2000 had nothing to worry about since the REAL change of the millinea was between 1993 and 1996.

Answer 4

A.D. means Anno Domini, which means, the year of our Lord. Which goes stems back to year 1, which they consider the birth y year for Jesus Christ. But don't take that year literally since they didn't start to number the years until several centuries later!

From Wikipedia
nno Domini(Latin: "In the Year of the Lord"), abbreviated as AD or A.D., defines an epoch based on the traditionally-reckoned year of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. Similarly, Before Christ, (From Ancient Greek "Christos" or Saviour) abbreviated as BC or B.C., is used in the English language to denote years before the start of this epoch. Some Non-Christians use the term, AD as a figure of speech but do not imply that Jesus is a Lord or Savior. Non-Christians sometimes similarly use the term, BC without implying that Jesus is Christ or Saviour. Others prefer the term, “CE” meaning ”Common Era” or “Christian Era” in place of AD and “BCE”, meaning “Before Christian Era” in place of BC. See, Support and Opposition.

The designation is used to number years in the Christian Era, conventionally used with the Julian and Gregorian calendars. More descriptively, years may be also specified as Anno Domini Nostri Iesu Christi ("In the Year of Our Lord Jesus Christ"). Anno Domini dating was first adopted in Western Europe during the eighth century.

The numbering of years per the Christian era is currently dominant in many places around the world in both commercial and scientific use. For decades it has been the global standard, recognized by international institutions such as the United Nations and the Universal Postal Union. This is due to the abundance of Christianity in the Western world, the great influence of the Western world on science, technology and commerce, as well as the fact that the solar Gregorian calendar has for a long time been considered to be astronomically correct.[1]

In Commonwealth English, usage copies Latin by placing the abbreviation before the year number for AD, but after the year number for BC; for example: 64 BC, but AD 2006. In North American English variant, AD and BC more commonly both come after a date.

Answer 5

AD does not stand for After Death. It stands for Anno Domini, which translates to The Year of our Lord in English.

Answer 6

Let's see if I've got this right, B.C. was "Before Christ". A.D. was "Anno Domini"(year of our Lord). Presently a third acronym has been added. C. E. indicates the Common Era, which is our present day. Hope that helps.

Answer 7

It's not afterdeath its Anno Domini which marks the years after Jesus Christ

Answer 8

BC-Before Christ, AD-Anno Dommini--After birth. So it's still AD during the time he was alive. Another way is BCE and ACE...before and after christain era.

Answer 9

The years during which Christ was alive. I'm not sure anyone today is focused on identifying those years in an alpha manner.

Answer 10

BC = before Christ.
AD = Anno Domini (year of our Lord).

The year Jesus was born was set as AD 0.
One year before that was 1 BC.
One year after Jesus was born was 1 AD.

It turns out however that when this calendar was set, Jesus' year of birth was counted as being ~ 4 years after his actual year of birth... so Jesus was born ~ 4 BC.

Cordially,
John