In the biblical sense, we have BC and AD. What about when Jesus was alive? What did we call the years then?

Question

BC= Before Christ
AD= After Death

Answer 1

You are basing your quesiton on the assumption that BC means "Before Christ," which is correct, and AD means "After Death," which is wrong. AD actually means "Anno Domini" which stands for "In the Year of the Lord."

The day Jesus was born (by this method) would have been 1 AD (Which means there was never a year 0, it went from 1 BC to 1 AD). Although we did not actually adopt the BC/AD method of time keeping until AD 400. Nowadays, scholars believe that this calculation of the birth of Christ was incorrect and the official date could have been between 6 and 4 BC.

Answer 2

Those years were AD.


Actually, the general consensus is that we were probably off by about 6 years on the year of Jesus's birth. So, the real answer would be that the first 6 years were BC and the rest were AD.

AD = anno Domini, not "after death"

Answer 3

I think you've misinterpreted A.D.

Those initials stand for Anno Domini, which is Latin for "In the year of the Lord." This refers to Jesus birth, not his death. Oddly, scholars have now ascertained that in all likelihood the original calculations were wrong, and in fact Jesus was born sometime between 6 B.C. and 10 A.D., but not very likely in the year 1 A.D.

Non-Christians who follow our calendar refer to these years as CE and BCE, meaning "Common (or Current) Era" and "Before Common (or Current) Era." It allows for a common calendar without a reference to a particularly religious event.

Answer 4

AD means Anno Domini, not After Death. Jesus lived from year 0 (the year of his birth when the Christian calender starts) to about year 33 which is the year of his death.

Answer 5

Goodness. BC skill "formerly Christ," and tracks the years formerly his start. each and every thing from the start of Christ forward is advert (Ano Domini), meaning "interior the twelve months of (our) Lord)." The advert has no longer something to do with the death of Christ. So the years that Jesus substitute into alive are advert.

Answer 6

Grace unto you and peace,
from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

The POINT of <-BC and AD-> being accounted in 'opposite' directions is it's also the division of <-bwd law and fwd grace->. BC will take you bwd to Mosaic Law: sin and death thereof, great "terror" (Deut 34:12) thereof such law law. Such is called a "draw back". AD will take you fwd to Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ, eternal salvation and peace with God thereof notably being "THROUGH Jesus->Christ" which end focuses on "Christ": "the end of the law", "our peace who hath abolished the law(enmity)", "the Saviour of the world"(not just Israel).

Jesus: division and not peace: law
Christ: peace and not division: grace
Pst - mark & avoid them which cause division

Jesus: made under the law: law
Christ: the end of the law: grace
Pst - ye are not under the law, but under grace

We are called the body of "Christ"(not Jesus).
Jesus is still alive, but only because of Christ.

AD-> only goes one way, unto the end (of law: sin & death):

The "grace" of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.

Answer 7

AD means Anno Domini not "after death".

When Jesus was 1 it was 1AD

Answer 8

they kept track of the years based on who was ruling at the time - ie in the 5th year of king so-and-so

same with AD, haven't you seen "in the year of our Lord, 1638 (or whatever)" - comes from the same concept

oh and AD means Anno Domini, not after death

Answer 9

Jews & Muslims do not use the Gregorian (western, catholic) calendar.

According to the Jewish & Muslim calendars, it is currently about the year 6,000 with no "bc" or "ad."

The ad & bc concept was invented in 1582.

Answer 10

The years Jesus was alive was called, the time to be mislead.