if our time as we know it started around the time of Christ and even our forefaters base time on BC or AD which is before Christ and after death of christ.
what makes you think that its all wrong now?
2007-12-23 08:28:26 · 26 answers · asked by technician68 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
We are used to it. To change it would be just as annoying as change from foot to the metric system.
2007-12-23 08:33:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
Actually IT IS true, yet we dont live time based off of anything because the new way to refer to time is now BCE and sometimes people will not even necessarily use AD or BC because it makes references to Christ(some ppl dont believe that there was even a Christ to roam earth)
BCE is diff than BC which if you notice has an extra letter to represent or imply he may not have existed or is irrelevant in the equation of time.
2007-12-23 16:39:04 · answer #2 · answered by ♥CJ♥ 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The conception of that time line didn't start until a few hundred years after the death of Christ. Are you under the impression that people living 2500 years ago were basing their time on a countdown of BC? You have been ill informed, my friend.
2007-12-23 16:32:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
There was no AD or BC at the time of Jesus so your argument has no validity. The terms did not come into being hundreds of years after that time when the church came into power in Rome.
2007-12-23 16:36:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Well, calendar is based on Pagan and we still use it.
The 24 hour standard time is set on science and reality.
Point is, we used it because it's what we know. When we travel the universe in space ships, we will most likely require a new rule of how to measure time.
Besides, measurements are merely measurements and they do not exist outside those who know of them.
2007-12-23 16:32:47 · answer #5 · answered by Corvus 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, that's what YOU call it. I call it BCE and CE. Before Common Era and Common Era. It is so sad that some are so engrossed in their own self-absorbed world that you don't know there is a world out here that doesn't involve your religion. Educate yourself; I'm almost embarrassed FOR you.
Some teenager, I have posted the original names for the days of the week before, but they are not ALL Gods/desses: Sun Day, Moon Day, Tiu's Day, Woden's Day, Thor's Day, Freya's Day, Saturn's Day. (I love my Witches' Calendar! I find myself calling the days of the week by these names all the time since my hubby and I are both practicing Witches and we live alone, we can do this!)
2007-12-23 16:38:24 · answer #6 · answered by wiccanhpp 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I think there's a lot of evidence that Jesus was a real person. Was he the son of God? Was he the savior of the world? Did his mom just make up the emaulate conception story as an explanation for her unmarried pregnancy?
2007-12-23 16:41:22 · answer #7 · answered by Lancaid 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The church, in setting up the Gregorian calender, based it on their "best" guess of when Jesus was said to have existed. This does not lend validity to Jesus having existed nor does it comment on his divinity.
Granted, I don't care what a calender is based on as any event is as good as any other.
2007-12-23 16:34:49 · answer #8 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
BC does in fact stands for Before Christ
However
AD does not mean after dead. It stands for Anno Domini. This is Latin for "In the year of the Lord" or God with us.
2007-12-23 16:35:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well that settles it.
Jesus rose into the sky and became a god, and suddenly your question has made it all clear. If it were not true we wouldn't have BC and AD.
Thank you for your astute insight.
What? Yeah well whatever --
2007-12-23 16:35:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
What else would you like to base the subdivisions on?
Is not right or wrong, just a convenience of pattern
2007-12-23 16:32:12 · answer #11 · answered by gordem 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋