Was there a year zero ?

Question

1 B.C was one year before Jesus was born and 1 A.D was one year after his death. So what about all the years he was alive? Do they count those? Thanks. --- Jeff

Answer 1

When the Gregorian calendar was developed, the European number system did not include the number 'zero.' That was incorporated later. Since they didn't know what 'zero' was, it would have been impossible for it to be included in the calendar.

The year 1 B.C. was picked to be the year before Jesus was born. 1 A.D. was supposed to be the year when he was born.

However, modern scholars think that the chosen dates were wrong and that Jesus was born in or near 4 B.C.

Answer 2

In terms of time there can never be a year zero. What is right of year one is always one year greater, which in the case of year 1 is year 2. To the left of year 1 must be year -1 (in the case of A.D. and B.C. it would be 1 B.C.) Year -1 is one year less than year 1. If you include year 0, then year -1 will be two years left of year 1, which is invalid for time based measures.

Zero is not a year, season, month, week, or day. Zero in time is the transition from one day to the next. When using zero for measure of time its point of origin is then shared by its equivalent end. Midnight is 0 or 24 hours.

Zero is a moment. Zero is infinite nothing – it’s the Origin. Zero can’t contain duration. To indicate 0 years is to imply duration/quantity, but in fact zero is not quantifiable. Technically, when implying a scale such as Years, the measure is associated with the first measure not with the Origin. If the first measure to the right of the Origin is 1 and the scale is in Years, then you have 1 Year – never is it 0 Years - Zero is Zero, it contains no measure. It is nothing, infinitely nothing. Time to the right or to the left of zero is infinite large or infinite small, and continues on with no end just as zero is also unattainable, infinite nothing. Always can you add one more measure when approaching either ends including the approach to the Origin – you can always add one more measure on either side of the Origin as you approach zero.

Time is infinite to the right and infinite to the left unless we are talking about cycles such as the 24-hour time system. In this case, there are limits. The limits here are 0 and 24.

Mathematically, limits are unattainable. If the limit is ever attained then the form of scale must be changed in order for that value to be contained by establishing a new limit. Measures are contained, limits are unattainable. Remember, this is all Elementary – we learned everything there is to know about limits in grade school. If the measure is one then always there can be added another measure, however if the limit is 1 then as the measure increases it approaches 1, but never does it obtain the limit. Zero is always a limit, never is it a form of measure - it's nothing.

As for the measures in a year, the scale is circular - Months, but time in general for counting purposes, the scale is linear, there are no limits; never was it intended for years to be reset back to zero and if it did then zero would be a transition point in time so it would be also represented by the ending number from the previous cycle.

There is no proof that Jesus was born after 1 B.C. and before 1 A.D.

Where does it say that he wasn't born on August 21 at noon, 7 B.C.?

Answer 3

It wasn't until years after the whole Jesus mess did folks assign year numbers to the years that had passed. Get it? When Jesus was allegedly alive, no one was under the impression that it was C.E. (or A.D.) because it wasn't something folks thought about.

Answer 4

Well, consider the "End of the World" parties they were having at 1 BC. They were counting down for so many years, but didn't know why!!! Then, they get to Zero!

Answer 5

year zero started from the time of adam/eve (not jesus)
BC n AD does not go with jesus but is followed as per Romans Calender. Every country have its own calender.
Like Chinese, Indian, Egypt, Greek & so on..
Jesus birthdate & death is as per Roman calenders only.

Answer 6

1 AD is (theoretically) the year jesus was born. He died (theoretically) in 34 AD (when he was thirty three years old)

There is no year zero. The year before Jesus's birth was 1 BC.

Answer 7

A.D. means "anno domini" latin for "year of the lord".
1 A.D. is the year Jesus was born, there was never a year zero.

Answer 8

I guess not. Maybe people considered the time in between his birth and death to be a sacred time, where the past ended and the future began.
In a scientific way though, there honestly isn't a thing called time. People created it to keep track of things.

Answer 9

Our numerical system is base 10, so no. 2000 was the last year of the millenium, 2001 the first.

Answer 10

Jesus Christ existed from the very beginning. He was never born as God was born to Virgin Mary as a man
There is nothing as year zero . It is only from the very beginning.
Joh 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Joh 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God.
Joh 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Joh 1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
Joh 1:5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
Joh 1:6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
Joh 1:7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
Joh 1:8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
Joh 1:9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
Joh 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
Joh 1:11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
Joh 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
Joh 1:13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Joh 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Joh 1:15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
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