Ever wonder why Time is told and dated by Jesus birth? B.C. & A.D.?

Question

I mean think of it when Christ came into the world He split time or how we date time in half.
how come Zeus or some other false gods didn't do that?
Could it be Jesus is the Messiah

she whos name cannot......that would be hard since the Vatican did not come into play till the 5th century. read this on Vatican History.
The history of the Vatican as a papal residence dates from the 5th cent., when, after Emperor Constantine I had built the basilica of St. Peter’s, Pope Symmachus built a palace nearby

Red Beetle 23...."Now it called" we can change it "now" to suit ourselves but that's not what it was called originally

Red Beetle 23...."Now it called" we can change it "now" to suit ourselves but that's not what it was called originally

Answer 1

Even before I became a Christian, I knew that Jesus' birth was a very significant event and was the reason we referred to the time before Jesus as, B.C. ("Before Christ"). I also learned why we referred to the years since Jesus' birth as A.D. ("In the Year of our Lord"), although, at the time, I wondered why we didn't call it A.C. ("After Christ"), not realizing until later that there *is* *no* "after Christ" - "Jesus Christ, is the same, yesterday, today, forever!" After becoming a Christian, I realized, even more thoroughly, how significant this division of time is! Sometime later, I realized that the early Christians did not observe "birthdays". Since *only* pagans/non-Christians observed birthdays for several years - maybe centuries - after Jesus' birth year, His *actual* year of birth was mis-calculated. This, in *no* way, detracts from the significance of the event!

Of course, Jews, Muslims, Chinese, and others use different systems of calculating what year it is according to their own calendars. This became even *more* evident at the advent of the "Faux Millinneum" - Jan. 1, 2000, when some people made reference to the fact that it wasn't the "Millennium" according to other calendar systems. Most people, nevertheless, use the B.C. and A.D. system for convenience of commerce with the "Western" or "Christian" world. In 1962, there was even a science fiction movie called, "Panic in Year Zero", restarting the reckoning of time from a worldwide nuclear holocaust.

Nowadays, many people don't like the reference to Jesus, our Lord and Savior, so it is called B.C.E. ("Before the Common Era") or C.E. (Common Era), instead of B.C. and A.D., because, like one of your earlier answerers, many people do not want to believe that Jesus *is* the Messiah or even that mankind was and is *still* in *need* of a Messiah!

Answer 2

YOu really have your facts screwed up. Jesus didn't split time. Some of his followers decided to do so several hundred years after Jesus died. Some monk back calculated how long it had been since Jesus' birth and named the years according to that but he was off by 4 years. So by the Gregorian Calendar, Jesus was born in the year 4 BC That really shows the power of Christ, doesn't it. Jesus was born in the year 4 Before Christ. Brilliant.

And it is such a "perfect" calendar that they forgot to put a zero between BC and AD, so that even though Jesus was born in 4 BC, by the time 4 AD came around he was 7 years old, not 8. Got math?

Of course, the Ancient Greeks had their own year numbering systems as do the Chinese and the Jews and countless other cultures.

Hey, maybe Jesus IS the messiah, but don't use the screwed up calendar as evidence of it.

Answer 3

ok so the thing is, you have already been chastised SOUNDLY by the public for your question.

thing is, have you learned from it? Do you understand that for Jews it is the year 5766 ? For the chinese it is a different year, for the Muslims, yet another. Do you get that?

Or, do you think it is transcendentally significant that for convenience the modern business world uses the Julian Calendar ? (named for Julius Caesar, not a famous christian BTW however he ordered the same calendar to be used throughout the Roman Empire. Caesar also ordered the use of standard Roman weights and measures, not local weights, and used local law and Roman law in locally held courts to create a system of justice.)

In Roman times they numbered the years starting with the year 1 for each Emperor. It was not until the Middle Ages that a consistent calendar was developed, and the Roman and Greek empires were long forgotten by then.

Answer 4

The Western world was controlled by Christians at the time the current calendar was contrived. They chose the one thing they thought as an important point in time to count from. That's what people do. To draw any conclusions about Jesus based on this fact is simply bad logic.

Answer 5

For the same reason the months of July and August came from Roman Emperors.

Answer 6

BC=BCE
AD=CE

BC and AD are outdated.

And if Jesus was real, he was born in 6 or 5 BCE.

The Bible was believed to have been started in 1450-1410 BCE. The Epic of Gilgamesh, which many of the biblical myths were derived from, was written between 2750 and 2500 BCE.

Answer 7

Or it could be just terms created by the 6th century monk Dionysius Exiguss who apparently believed Jesus was a messiah.

Answer 8

it was around the year 1200 AC that a monk calculated the probale birthday of jesus and promoted that year as the year 1. where i work time is measured as the number of milliseconds elapsed since midnight UTC of 1st Jan 1970 ( AC ) not counting leap seconds. for instance 127841234

Answer 9

Jesus IS the Messiah. Post Christ marked the time when your faith in Him saved you. No one is perfect, we know that. The Bible even says, "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." (Rom. 3:23) Suppose you sinned only 3 times a day (said something you should have, didn't do something you should have, thought something you shouldn't have...), that would amount to over 70,000 in one year. If you went to court with over 70,000 traffic tickets, imagine the jail time!! Youd be in there FOREVER! Now, knowing that we sin more than 3 times a day, and we dont want to be in jail (hell), we need help because we obviously can't be perfect on our own. Now, no one is going to reach perfection, but "God is love" and thus sent His only son, Jesus. There are other religions, BUT none of which A) the "representative" came back to life B) takes the penality of YOUR sins on HIS back through faith or C) has a book written over thousands of years by hundreds of different people and has absolutly no condraditions.
Sounds like a timeless and life changing man to me.

Answer 10

Uhm...what Sun and Julia said.