DC? during christ?
2006-09-21 15:36:22 · 15 answers · asked by giggles 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
both are innaccurate terms!
To say BC(before Christ) when the Bible says he existed for unknown time before coming to earth is silly.
Then 'Anno domini' (in the year of or lord), is incorrect because the time of Christs presence as the appointed ruler of God's kingdom was ( at the time) , 1900 years down the road.
A better way of defining the division of before Jesus was born and the time immediately following to today, is BCE(before common era). and CE(common era), as the entire population of the earth does not agree that Jesus was of any signifcant value, yet do agree on the marking of time throught the use of the common calender.
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2006-09-21 15:40:12 · answer #1 · answered by Tim 47 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
AD is Anno Domini... 15 others have already said it.
cannotfindsense is way off... they started with "both are inaccurate" and added a clearly incorrect assumption about the kingdom of Christ. Jesus told people that they would see the kingdom in their lifetime. (Matt 16:28, Mark 9:1, Luke 9:27) The ONLY valid assumption is that church and kingdom are the same, at least for now.
When the current calendar was established, an error was made in calculating the year in which Herod the great kicked off. This resulted in an error in guessing the year in which Jesus was born.
His actual birth was around 4 B.C.
... There was no year zero. Those guys didn't know 0. That complicates things one step more as we try to compute exact dates.
2006-09-21 15:39:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
BC means "Before Christ" and AD means "Anno Domini" which is Latin for "in the year of our Lord" meaning in the year that Jesus was born. AD does NOT mean "after death" as in after the death of Christ. The posts with that assertion are just flat out wrong. AD means "Anno Domini" which is a year belonging to the Lord or of the Lord which is "the year of the advent of his birth and all subsequent years." If the calendar got Christ's birth right, and it didn't, but, anyway, according to the calendar, December 31, 1BC is the last day before Christ was BORN. He was born in the wee hours of the morning of the very next day, January 1st, the year 1 AD (if the calendar is right). Note that there is no year zero (zero, an Arabic conception, hadn't been invented yet, neither had the cadinal numbering system nor cartesian coordinates). All this had to be computed and backed-into once the calendar was readjusted to reflect this numbering.
2016-03-27 01:37:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first answer was the correct one, and though A.D. is not used by everyone, it is recognized by even governments like China. Here's a stumpier, Christ was born in the year 2 B.C.E. and was two years old in 2 A.D. The reason? There is no year zero.
2006-09-21 15:46:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
OK, to answer your question simply, there was no zero year. the year he died was 1 BC, and the next year was 1 AD. it is true that AD does not stand for after death, and that the scientific community has recently changed BC to BCE (Before Common Era) and AD to CE (Common Era) to separate science and religion.
2006-09-21 15:51:52 · answer #5 · answered by nyxavenger 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
AD, as several have noted, stands for Anno Domini. It refers to dates reckoned by time since the year of Jesus' birth, not his death.
2006-09-21 15:43:30 · answer #6 · answered by John's Secret Identity™ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
AD = Anno Domini
2006-09-21 15:46:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
AD stands for Anno Domino (The year of our Lord) not after death
2006-09-21 15:38:55 · answer #8 · answered by lopie6 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
33 years
2006-09-21 15:38:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A.D. is not after death. The english translation is The year of our Lord (Anno Domino) I believe, that my not be correct spelling but the translation is correct
2006-09-21 15:39:28 · answer #10 · answered by timjim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋