how can there have been life before christ existed, the dinosaurs roamed the earth
2007-02-25 07:55:47 · 35 answers · asked by Caroline C 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
bc is before christ's birth; there was life; adam and eve, etc. ad is after christ's death on the cross.
2007-02-25 07:57:31 · answer #1 · answered by mama3x 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Um... Pick up a copy of the Old Testament...
Also, AD doesn't really mean After Death. Common misconception it stands for two Latin words which start with an A and a D, and it means 'Years in our Lord'
Um, dinosaurs roamed the earth like billions of years ago. Christ came 2000(ish) years ago.
However, we shouldn't use BC/AD any more because they're kind of Politically Incorrect. So, some scholars are now using CE and BCE (Common Era, and Before Common Era).
2007-02-25 08:01:37 · answer #2 · answered by Sylvie M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, if you research it AD and BC don't mean what most people think it did. I also thought it was Before Christ and After Death, but I found out a few months ago that I was misinformed.
In the Christian beliefs, God created Earth and all life on it, not Christ. Christ came to be many, many years after the world was created. That is how life existed before Christ was born.
Of course, if a person doesn't believe in the whole existence of Heaven, Hell, God, Jesus, and Saten, then they wont accept my answer, but that is the beliefs of Christians anyways.
2007-02-25 08:07:25 · answer #3 · answered by LittleMermaid 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
BC does indeed mean Before Christ, but AD means Anno Domini, which is Latin for "in the year of our lord". Life has been around on this planet for at least the past 2.4 billion years, when photosynthesys converted the atmosphere from CO2 to oxygen. The abbreviations BCE and CE are now often used for dates, meaning Before Common Era and Common Era.
2007-02-25 08:03:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you suggesting that the beginning of time began with Christ? I don't think so. And A.D.is the abbreviation for Anno Domini (literally the year of our Lord) so that time encompasses the time when Christ was alive as well as all years following his birth, it does not mean after death. Today you may see the abbreviations BCE and CE, Before common era and common era. Same meanings tho.
2007-02-25 08:03:02 · answer #5 · answered by Enchanted Gypsy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, if you do believe in the existence of Jesus, you probably already know of the human history that took place before his birth. Therefore, BC as Before Christ means everything that happened before his birth. AD means Anno Domini, or the Year of our Lord. The idea here is that everything that happened after the birth of Jesus happened "in his reign" as it were.
2007-02-25 08:01:18 · answer #6 · answered by Nakshidil 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is a common misconception but BC does not mean Before Christ and AD does not mean After Death. They both are something that means something in Latin.
2007-02-25 08:03:11 · answer #7 · answered by Futureguy51 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's just where we base our calendar from. AD actually stands for Anno Domini which means in the year of our lord. It means, from this point forward, this is what matters. Today you are actually suppose to use the terms BCE (before the common era) and CE (common era). Which I think is ridiculous since we are still using Christ as the marking point of our calendar years.
2007-02-25 08:02:18 · answer #8 · answered by fifimsp1 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus Christ existed before the world was created. BC does mean "before Christ", but it refers to when he became flesh and dwelt among us, AD means "anno domini" = in the year of the Lord
2007-02-25 08:02:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dinosaurs still roam the earth ! Google that ! 3/4 earth is covered by water - man has not seen everything on this planet
2007-02-25 07:59:18 · answer #10 · answered by thefatguythatpaysthebills 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
there were not dinosaurs in the year 0 or 1 BC
they died out long before then
the year 0 is the beginning of AD or the common era
A.D. doesn't mean "after death" it means Anno Domini or Latin for "Year of Our Lord"
2007-02-25 08:00:36 · answer #11 · answered by Mike H 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋