2007-06-01 03:57:12 · 22 answers · asked by Get Smart™ 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I remember having the argument with my brother over how Americans can't help but be influenced by Christianity. I used the calander as an argument. He scoffed and told me I was too stupid to argue with. I generally take that as a sign that I've won the argument.
Undoubtably the Roman calander that was used prior to the adoption of Christianity would be the one in place now. The banners waved durring the crusades would have had a different symbol on them, but I doubt human history would be all that different.
2007-06-01 05:03:29 · answer #1 · answered by Alita 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
There are approximately 40 calendars in the world today...the Christian calendar based on the 'approximate' date of Jesus' birth is only one among many. I'm sure Dionysius Exiguus would've used some other 'original epic' to begin his count.
Hebrew date today: 15 Sivian, 5767 (Day, Month, Year-Jun 1, 2007)
My question is, when the Mayan Calendar runs out in Dec 21, 2012, will that have any significance?
2007-06-01 14:53:27 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would assume we would use the Calendar the Roman's used before the switchover. I don't feel like looking anything up or doing math, so I'm going to leave it at that.
Though I will throw in that the Aztec calendar is said to be more accurate then ours, so I think we should just switch to that. They have a date for the apoloclypse too- which is actually precise. I think a lot of Christians could get behind that...:)
2007-06-01 12:21:22 · answer #3 · answered by kermit 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If Jesus was never born, we wouldn't know what year is it...
We have to wait until he is born, then we can start counting.
Of course we know he was born about 2007 years ago.
2007-06-02 06:38:37 · answer #4 · answered by espms290 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Depends on what calendar you want to use. There were calendars in use prior to julian and gregorian.
"The ancient Egyptians used a calendar with 12 months of 30 days each, for a total of 360 days per year. About 4000 B.C. they added five extra days at the end of every year to bring it more into line with the solar year."
2007-06-01 11:06:43 · answer #5 · answered by . 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
What if he actually wasn't really born? Maybe someone made it up as an excuse to start numbering the years. No offence.
2007-06-07 14:39:21 · answer #6 · answered by Vixen23 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
-2007
2007-06-01 13:23:20 · answer #7 · answered by icunurse85 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I guess this would be probably 600 or 1000 considering the redevelopment of civilized society after the dark ages.
Don't really know. Best of Luck, good question...
2007-06-03 21:41:36 · answer #8 · answered by Somebody Real 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was born and it's still 2007.
2007-06-04 14:42:11 · answer #9 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
if JC weren't born, the egyptians would still have the jews as slaves which would mean that the world might still have egypt as a super power. hence, we would be using the egyptian calendar which would put our current year at 5421 UK (upper kingdom.)
2007-06-01 11:07:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋