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BC...............AD

kerestinakerestina
edited December 1969 in Random Issues
sorry this is a very random topic.....but while christ was on this earth, is/was there any title/abb for that time? make sense? like BC= before christ but what about while christ was here.........

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  • Unknown
    [quote author=kerestina link=topic=5340.msg71108#msg71108 date=1179561478]
    sorry this is a very random topic.....but while christ was on this earth, is/was there any title/abb for that time? make sense? like BC= before christ but what about while christ was here.........


    A.D (Anno Domini=Year of Our Lord) is used when talking about the time after Christ's birth. However, this way of calculating time was not developed until about 5 centuries after Christ by Victor of Tonnenna in north Africa.

    The Byzantine calendar, like the Jewish one, calculates from the time of Adam; although the two differ quite a lot in their calculations. So today is May 6th 7514 according to the Byzantine calendar, and 2 Sivan 5767 according to the Jewish one.
  • kerestinakerestina
    ahhhhhhh very interesting thankx ortho............so from christ's birth on wards is considered AD?...........
  • Unknown
    [quote author=kerestina link=topic=5340.msg71112#msg71112 date=1179569401]
    so from christ's birth on wards is considered AD?...........


    yup
  • kerestinakerestina
    hectic...thankx champ
  • Kristina123Kristina123
    although some say that AD means after the death of Christ

    at the moment though in History classes here in australia they are using BCE and ACE (before common era and after common era) to replace BC and AD - i guess to be more sensitive to those following other religions

    i hate political correctness!!!!


    Kristina123
  • Anglican
    Dear Kristina 123,

    Orthodox11 has it correctly. Anno Domini is 'in the year of Our Lord', and so applies to any date after His birth in the flesh. Things aren't helped by the fact that the original attempt to date when that was was out by about 4 years.

    I do agree about political correctness. Apart from anything else, 'BCE' is so silly - 'before the common era' - what is 'common' about it, except that it is Christian and thus used by most of the world. It is not 'common' to Muslims and is therefore still as offensive as 'B.C.'

    Sometimes people can be very silly in their attempts to escape admitting that the most significant event in world history was the Word becoming Incarnate.

    In Christ,

    John
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