The meaning of AD is Anno Domini or Year of our Lord referring to the year of Christ’s birth. The meaning of BC is Before Christ. CE is a recent term. It refers to Common Era and is used in place of A.D. the dates are the same i.e., 2009 AD is 2009 CE. BCE means Before Common Era. For example 400 BC is 400 BCE.
When did we start using AD and BC? Why?
Many different calendars have been used since man began tracking time. Most start with some epoch event or person. The use of BC and AD for numbering calendar years was invented by Dionysius Exiguus in 525 AD. His purpose was to determine the correct date for Easter under the direction of Pope St. John I.
Prior to this time, one method for determining Easter was based on a 532 year calendar cycle stemming from the Alexandrian era. Other methods were also used which led to the confusion. Dionysius was asked to determine a method for calculating Easter that would then be used by the entire church. Dionysius did not want to perpetuate the name of Alexander, the Great Persecutor. He decided to start his 532-year cycle from 753 years after the Founding of Rome.
Today, based on historical evidence relating to Herod and astronomical data from the study of eclipses and star novas, most historians believe Christ was born a few years earlier. Dionysius named the years relating to his cycle, BC meaning Before Christ, which starts with year 1 and AD meaning Anno Domini, the year of Our Lord referring to the year of Christ’s birth. This is also a year 1. There is no year 0. That’s the reason purists insists the 21st century began January 1, 2001. For example, the first year began in 1 AD and ended the beginning of 2 AD. So the first year of the 21st century begins in 2001 AD and ends with the beginning of 2002 AD. It took about 400 years for the dating system devised by Dionysius to reach common usage. In combination with the Julian Calendar system that determines the beginning of months and years, this continued until 1582 AD. The number of each year is based on the Dionysius numbering system.
For more information on how it spread read our article What Did We Use Before BC and AD. The need for the introduction of the Gregorian Calendar came about because a year is not exactly 365 days long. It is 365 and a quarter days long. Every four years, March 1st moved behind a day until after centuries instead of being early spring March 1st was now the beginning of winter. Something had to be done. The Gregorian Calendar was introduced in the Catholic parts of Europe in 1582 A.D. by Pope Gregory XIII (then the religious leader of the Roman Catholic faith). It was an improvement upon the Julian Calendar to keep the average length of the calendar year better in line with the seasons.
Now here's a rule that will drive you crazy. The rules, months, and days of the Gregorian calendar are the same as those of the Julian Calendar, except for the leap year rules. In the Gregorian calendar, a year is a leap year if the year number is evenly divisible by 4. However century years follow a different rule. The number must be divisible by both 100 and 400 to be a leap year; otherwise it is not a leap year. For example, 1600 and 2000 are leap years, but 1700, 1800, and 1900 are not.
"The legal code of the United States does not specify an official national calendar. Use of the Gregorian calendar in the United States is a result of an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom in 1751, which specified use of the Gregorian calendar in England and its colonies. However, its adoption in the United Kingdom and other countries was fraught with confusion, controversy, and even violence. It also had a deeper cultural impact through the disruption of traditional festivals and calendrical practices." (Seidelmann, P. Kenneth, Explanatory Supplement, United States Naval Observatory. Nautical Almanac, pg. 578)
The widespread use of the Gregorian calendar and the use of BC and AD throughout the world came about thanks to the colonization practices of Europe. And economic pressures of a worldwide economy led by Europe and the United States. This is gradually changing as more and more academic writers prefer the use of CE rather than AD.
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..Jesus said : “No man can come to Me, except the Father(God) which hath sent Me draw(s) him: and I will raise (resurrect) him up at the last day.” … if God draws an individual to Jesus, that person’s soul will most certainly be saved and will be revived and carried to Heaven at the end of time ..
If God chooses not to draw a person to Jesus, then they will be lost & sent to eternal torment in Hell — I suggest that we all should humble ourselves and tremble at His sacred feet & beg Jesus of Nazareth for mercy.
What has this got to do with the history of naming different eras?
They want to change it because they hate AD After death because it refers to Christ His resurrection and they hate the name of Jesus Christ because only through Faith in Jesus Christ can a person be saved from eternity in HELL FIRE. Gods judgment is coming all who rejects Jesus Christ will burn in HELL FIRE
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What scripture or scriptures are you referring specifically to? Question what did God say would happened to Adam and Eve if they ate the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden? Genesis 3:19
Jesus Christ was born after lot of generations and generations passed on, there’s no way one can burn in hell if they not accept him. he is dead like all deceased
The time is coming quickly that will cause U a great deal of regret & gnashing of teeth 4 U!! Just wait & see!!!!
Acts 17:30 (NKJV) “Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent,
the time period that GOD overlooked was before JESUS walked the earth but now after JESUS was crucified and resurrected, all men everywhere must repent or be thrown into the lake of fire for eternity.
Hate to be in your shoes when Jesus comes !
That’s why Jesus Christ when to hell for 3 days to preach the new gospel
AD was never “after death”. Think about it…. There would he 33 years unspoken for. BC ended with the Birth of Christ. If AD was After Death, where did the years go when he was alive??
Ano Domini doesn’t mean after death. It is Latin for “the year of the Lord” meaning when he came (his birth) what happened in those 33 years, was His life that He lived on earth. You should read about it. Much of His life history is contained in the New Testament recorded in the books of Matthew, Mark Luke and John. All other scripture refer to Him and his teachings, miracles and prophecies. People who tend to use CE (common era) and BCE (before the common era) are those who do not recognize Jesus Christ or believe in Him, His Great Atoning Sacrifice and His Resurrection. They do not want to Follow in His ways (keep His Commandments or follow His example). Many of them do not believe in “repentance” when they break the commandments or choose not to follow Him. If the general masses do not realize where we are in “time” and put forth great effort to get to KNOW HIM, turn lives around and become much greater human beings, that is try to reach their potential as a child of God, there is going to be great disappointment for them when HE COMES AGAIN! Educate yoursel!
Loving writing I’d like to correct something you wrote. The gospels do tell of Jesus life but only his last few years. We do not have any words in the gospels of his childhood or where he was we do have historical data suggesting things. But not biblical writings.
Where did you read that in the Bible? If a person does not draw close to God he would be sent to eternal torment in hell.
Sorry, but I’m not religious. That’s not to say that I don’t believe in a higher power. I do feel that an amazing human called Jesus preached about a better life for humans only if they followed a certain way of life. I’m more of a spiritual person than religious. What happens to an innocent child that dies and never had a chance to live long?. Would a “ God” have that child soul burn in hell?. Your Bible says that God is a jealous God, that he’s a vengeful God. Then the Bible states that God is forgiving and living. God sounds like he’s Bipolar. Bible says that Man was made in his image. I guess that explains why this world is so messed up. Can anyone prove that Gods does exist?. I think the Bible is the most “ X “ rated book in our library’s. Murder, Rape, Sodomy, Incest. Killing of Children/Infants. Most wars are because of religion. Religion has become more like cults. They have become political. There isn’t one religion that I can say is a religion that I can truly trust to teach what humans should do for one another. If God made man in his image then why are children starving and being killed because of their color?. Why are men bombing hospitals and schools when at wars?. Why are men raping women and children?. Men were made in Gods image, right?. Why aren’t these so called Religious cults doing something about this?. I’m never going to follow a book that was written over 3,000 years ago. Would you listen to a doctor that practices from a medical book written over a hundred years ago?.
The Bible is first and foremost a book of faith. And this faith in the Lord is chronicled in the 3000 years of history within. Jesus has invited us and taught us the forgiveness and kindness to make peaceful societies. Unfortunately these lofty principles have been compromised in historical conquests and colonization, so it our duty to keep focused on the all the good the Christian faith has done to help people in need today.
Children are protected by immunity from hell until they have reached a period of maturity to know right, from wrong, and the freedom to make their own decisions. After that, ignorance, rejection, acceptance, obedience and/or disobedience to His laws, is the choosing of their own. Allowing everyone to choose their own destiny. (Based on their ignorance, rejection, acceptance, obedience/disobedience to them throughout their life. Allowing the decision maker that rejects Him, to live life without His unknowing protections, so they can deal with the consequences to come, without them. I lived 40 years in doubt of His existence, and only used Him part-time for prayers when I was down and without answers. Even after He allowed me to almost get killed in an auto accident during a period of my life when I was disobeying His laws, putting me in the situation where it occurred. Since asking Jesus to be my savior in prayer, lead by a born again Christian brother where I worked at the time, (25-years ago) He has answered two of my prayers that I had asked him to do, before I had committed by heart and soul to Him as my savior. 20-years after I had asked for them. Seeing how much more advantageous they were when He did answered them, than they would have been had He answered them in a short time of me asking, I understand why He does things on His time clock, not ours. And when you see a meem or posted note saying, “When you ask God for something in a prayer, and you start feeling He’s not going to answer it, it’s because He has something better coming.” BELIEVE IT!!! Just be sure to thank Him and let Him know that you know where it came from. God does not hurt anyone as punishment. He just doesn’t protect you while you are running with Satan. Consciously or subconsciously. However, anytime we are not walking with the spirit of Jesus in us with all tough decisions based on, “What would Jesus do?” And Antoinette, Christianity isn’t a religion. We just study history commonly referred to as the Holy Bible. Religions are the various interpretations and modifications of the bible. I probably haven’t been to church over 50 times since my commitment to Christ Jesus, but He never leaves my side. He’s in every decision I make. Even the ones that are fair to those involved, yet not in my best interest. And He can’t tell jokes from serious speak. One day, expecting to only live into my 70’s, I joking said to a friend, I’d ask God for 100 healthy years, if He would just turn the switch off all at once. But we know that’s not possible. Now, at the age of 65, God has led me to the information about his 2nd oxygen on earth. The information has been hidden from us for over a century, and is still being suppressed by big pharma, here in the states. It has the potential to remove all human illnesses and diseases from the face of God’s earth. Once it becomes common knowledge throughout the world, and everybody includes it into their everyday life. Yes. I learned about it on a video that was played at a conference on Constitutional Freedom & Law. As an example of government suppression of information, being beneficial to the health and welfare of we the people. Youtube search for: (Dr. Shallenberger interview with Dr. Joy Kong-Ozone) God bless America. I’ve read his three books since then and am on my way to 100-years like the joke to my friend mentioned. I just have to participate in His plan to get me there. Love thy neighbor. Do no harm.
Agreed. I hope I am humble enough to receive Jesus blessing on my last day on earth. I do not deserve it. And I accept Jesus decision as a just one.
thx alot for making us wise on BC, BCE, AD and CE.
BC, BCE, AD, CE, The names can change all they want and I’m sure more names will pop up in the future but they all refer the same Major event in history which is the Birth of Jesus and everybody knows that. “Current era?” What made it current my student asked me and I had to reply the only thing that changed from “current era” and “before current era” was the birth of Jesus. And yes they were 6 years off when they tried to calculate his birth in 526 bcdhklmnop. Probably because of the leap years. . . . . . I’d prefer not to change historical facts. That’s not very scientific no matter what you believe. We are all humans living on the same planet. Be good to each other.
Being good is how people should treat each other but the fact remains every person is born into SIN and SIN will bend people to be bad and evil. Jesus Christ is the Savior and only when a person repents to Him believing in what He accomplished at the Cross and believing God raised Him from the dead. This is the Only Way to be Saved but sadly most will choose HELL FIRE. This is why they want to change BC and AD it reminds them a Judgment is coming
Not religious so I am unaware of a few things, but if Jesus’s sacrifice was to wash away man’s sin… then what sin is man being born into 200 years after his death to wash sin away? I guess you have to believe he did it to wash away sin for the sin to be gone… but does that mean a person coming to god late in life gets those pervious sins washed away retroactively?
First, tell me where is God and why should we believe that an old invisible man is ‘ up there somewhere’ watching each of us continuousloy, billions of us , in our daily actions and judging u s. Where is Satan? Down below us trying to get us to buy guns and kill each other, it seems. Both god and satin are h uman inventiions for powerful men to make us do what they want us to do. That’s all.
Satan is alive and well in 2023…if after these last three years you don’t believe in Satan..you don’t know what is happening all around and in dark corners
No, it’s “Reminding” us kindly what we’re expected morally to do.
Joy: Something to think about: is there such a thing as absolute truth? If so, what is its source, purpose, and significance? If not, why do we assign all of our human frailty and failures to a “ old invisible man” we cannot see? If survival of the fittest, is the rule, then your assumption of the fittest (the powerful rule with impunity) is correct. Justice that I believe we all have a propensity for is what they officiate. This line of reasoning/thinking about the question of the ancient philosophers: what does it mean to be human, is or should be an important an insightful question for our contemplation? However, from a movie I watched, there was a line from a powerful senator, “the truth is what I say it is!” I think many of us have this perspective!
Turn your life 2 Jesus & every sin U committed in life will B forgiven & forgotten!! Jesus loves U & wants 2 forgive U, so that U can live with Jesus in Paradise 4 all eternity!! If U don’t repent, the exact opposite will B your judgement! Eternity in the fire of hell with the father of lies!!!! Where there will B wailing & gnashing of teeth!! Eternity in torment!! What’s your choice? Please make it Jesus!! God Bless You!!!!
Sin of Adam brought on the curse. We are all born with sin. No matter if you are old or young when you become a believer in Jesus Christ your past sins are forgiven.. You become a Child of God!
You can’t wash sins away, read Romans 5:12. We inherited sins from our first parents Adam and Eve. We can be forgiven if we turn around and do what is right. Matthew 20:28
Yes, it’s never too late to give your life to Jesus. If you come to him in TOTAL surrender, willing to give up all your sinful ways and accept him as the sovereign Lord and Savior, son of God, confess with your mouth and be baptized. Than All your past and present sins will be forgiven and washed away by the blood of Jesus which was shed for you.
Yes a person with a repentant heart can accept Christ at any point in life. Once accepted by Christ you will have his strength added to yours to leave sin behind. I have accepted his assistance it turning from pornography which had me daily watching to now none and feeling good about myself and not condemning myself but pointing to Jesus’s love for me and all who accept his offer of salvation. I see his love in others that have accepted him as well. None of us are perfect and we only are required to be humble and show how Christ has changed us from the inside out.
CE is Common Era and BCE is Before Common Era
There are more languages in the world than english. There is nothing holy about which words or abbreviations some english speaking people in any part of the world choose to use – as long as its meaning is clearly defined and those who read it know what is meant. Widen you horizon and perspectives, there are other cultures and languages in the world than yours. The latin used to be good since it was a common academic language though its status has somewhat declined and at least in Europe english gradually taking over – so it’s more fitting to have a.d. in understandable english for non-latin speakers from other cultures. No worries, in no way an attack on Christ or his supposed birthday as a reference date and in terms with norms and traditions in discussions and science in other languages of Christian nations.
Thanks for the article it was an interesting and informing read.
PS. Interesting to see that Dionysius seems to have started on his intended year-starting weekday but just 7 starting weekdays (that is years) to late. I wonder if it was originally an unintended mistake?
PPS. And it makes one wonder on which day his first year started?
Use what you like and stop being paranoid jerks, you were all given free will so use it. No god is gonna be like ‘hey, remember when you defended that timeline stuff on a site… You know, that calendar I totally told that guy to write through the pope. That told a ruler that basically held a blade to his throat? Thanks Bro’ *fist bump* No they’d look at you in shame, that this is something their prodigy has degraded to. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not religious anymore and this shit is why. All of this around you is man made, your goddamn sacred tomes, civilization, pollution, nuclear weapons, slavery, racism, even the fuckin Chi-hua-hua that bit you as a kid. You are your own god, no one has a greater influence in your life than you. I’ve looked into so beliefs, you know what the Golden rule is? Don’t be a dick. Jesus existed, did some really neat stuff before his own people turned him over to be tortured and nearly turned into manjerky, that fella that piked him had better intentions than the lot of Christian’s I see, save very few. Jesus isn’t a damn comfort blanket to make you feel secure or start wars over, respect the man for who he was and stood for then move the fuck on… And Don’t be a dick
To B.T. WOLF and all who hate God: It’s obvious which side you are on, child/thug of Satan. I will never take the hatred and demands you are vomiting forth, so hold your vile tongue.
You all believe you are gods when you’ll all be answering to the one true God someday. There’s no way around it and every knee will bow to God (even Satan too) and admit that God is Lord.
Satan knows God is Lord, but he doesn’t care since he wants to be worshipped only instead (Why? Because of pride! Such pride is poison which ruined him and anyone who follows his evil!) and he wants you not to care either.
How? By using that same ploy/lie/scam that you can be a god yourself, something Satan will never let you be anyway! And neither of you can be so-called gods; you simply do not qualify and never will. I really pity you. You are so deceived!
There’s a reason Hell has “gnashing of teeth”, something you’ll be doing in your new afterlife hellish “home” if you don’t stop being such a blind fool. It’s really easy to tell who is a child/thug of Satan these days by the rotten bile they spew forth of hatred.
You have no dignity because Satan your master has none to teach you. You learn and know only hatred, evil, profanity, and lies. I repeat, neither you or your master Satan will ever be gods!
You will never qualify because you have no true love and no humility, only the one true God is qualified. This is a fact that no one can challenge! Satan has been trying to challenge it for years on end, but he will never be successful. You will fail too, guaranteed.
You are full of yourselves and it really shows. You are Satan’s puppet like so many others and I will pray for all your lost souls.
Remember that God owes us nothing, but gives us life anyway (Why? Out of true love!) when we all deserve Hell for betraying Him.
Adam and Eve wanted to be gods when Satan enticed them with that same scam he believes in (though he knows humans can never be god anyway – he hates God AND humans and animals and anything that is God’s!).
We paid the price by being separated from God by listening to Satan when God told/warned them not to ahead of time! Humans are to blame for their own foolishness, period!
Free will proves that God doesn’t control us like puppets and so we are responsible for our own foolishness! Anything good we do, THAT’S God’s doing, NOT ours!
We are born as sinners with desperately wicked hearts, so it’s not hard for us to fall for Satan’s lies and scams. Learn this, humans were never good to begin with, we ALL need God to change us for the better! Or let Satan destroy us. The choice is ours.
Separation from Life aka God is death people! Wake up before it’s too late! After you die, that’s it and God will judge you, me, everyone whether you like it or not, that’s how it is.
Humans send themselves to Hell, NOT God! Be responsible for what you do/think/say and don’t blame God for this or anything!
He doesn’t want you to go to Hell, but Satan does (Hell is meant for Satan and his fallen angels)!
God will not let rotting evil in Heaven, so be right with Him! HE has the rights and final say, NOT us!
Satan wants you not to believe in God and he doesn’t want you to believe in him either so he can confuse you, lie to you, brainwash you, and you won’t know how to stop him from ambushing you. And Satan will get you to like his evil instead, even love it so you do his dirty work and kill your fellow humans aka “enemies”.
Humans are not supposed to be enemies to other humans.
Satan is the real enemy!
He wants us to hate each other and God. It’s so obvious now, look at the world!
It’s being prepared for Satan aka thee Anti-Christ who people will foolishly love because he wants our wicked hearts run wild (something we want) before he devours us alive (something we should not want)!
Us being evil makes it easier for him to destroy us; the Bible warns of this beforehand – read it! And yes, I have.
Humans are supposed to judge angels and be their masters and the fallen ones hated that decision from God and rebelled. (The good ones know their place unlike some people and fallen angels, so they have passed their humility tests unlike Satan and his allies.)
So Satan and his followers always scam humans to believe their lies and get us to destroy one another and ourselves. The Bible shows this to be true, really read it people! Do some real research (don’t use Google – they hide results Satan doesn’t approve of), best to use the DuckDuckGo search engine.
It’s very simple to figure this all out once you climb out of Satan’s rotting lap, unwrap his claws around your skull, and tell him that you’re deaf to him and really read the Bible (better than most is the original KJV).
God is the one who has mercy, not Satan. Choose who you want to be with. If you choose neither, you have just chosen Satan and he’s waiting to devour you all whether or not you follow him.
The only way to escape his evil is God.
You can not care for yourself and your fellow humans if you follow Satan. Satan doesn’t have the final say, God does.
An eternity is a long time to be wrong and have regrets…
If anyone complains that this response has nothing to with the BC/AD and BCE/CE terms, tell B.T. WOLF that his/her vile bile of hatred/insults/demands truly have no place here or anywhere! And this person isn’t the only one here who proved themselves a child/thug of Satan. Never heed the hatred fools spew.
Do not miss the wisdom in this response.
Care about your soul (and others too! I do, which is why this response is here! God cares about you; Satan wants you dead and tormented in the afterlife!) and be concerned where you’ll be spending eternity.
Take this wisdom and advice however you wish. God forces no one to accept Him, but Satan will destroy you whether you refuse him and/or accept him.
God will protect you from Satan if you truly choose Him (I repeat, God doesn’t force Himself on anyone, but Satan always does!)
I repeat the same things over and over because they are very important.
You are easy prey for Satan, just like he wants, but God will stop Satan.
He lets certain things happen, even bad things because we want them to. How? By telling God to get out of our lives (so we have unfit leaders, pain, suffering, hunger, death, etc). Then we are given examples of how not to be and how we should be when God’s children speak, and ultimately, all this proves that humanity needs God.
We have utterly failed to do things our way. Our planet is polluted, we are polluted, people are starving, dying, because we betrayed God and told Him to take a hike and some even say He doesn’t exist. God says alright, let’s see how well you do without me then.
What do we do without God? We kill, rape, steal, lie, pillage, destroy, and hate. How can anyone expect people with those horrid traits get into Heaven at all and especially without God? Come on!
Our “fruits” are worthless trash, even things that look good/great to us. We need real help. We NEED God. Period.
Of course, you don’t have to, only if you truly want to – help God and yourself by rejecting evil and Satan’s scams. The world will be a better place, guaranteed.
Or you can let yourself and others become Satan’s food and tortured toys.
As always, the choice is yours.
First, tell me where is God and why should we believe that an old invisible man is ‘ up there somewhere’ watching each of us continuously, billions of us , in our daily actions and judging us. Where is Satan? Down below us trying to get us to buy guns and kill each other, it seems. Both god and satin are human inventions for powerful men to make us do what they want us to do. That’s all. We all die and sleep through eternity until our sun goes Nova and the earth is crumbled to dust…..who knows in how many billions of years. We live in a natural universe not one looked over b y any god. Some people do need religion, I agree, to make them behave and love their fellow man but usually they don’t!!
Have you ever wondered how it could be that Noah’s Arc was found or that they found where the Red Sea was parted and there were metal parts from chariots and weapons strewn about on the sea floor. They’ve uncovered the flooring from the temple. Look up the analysis of the blood on the arc of the covenant and how it got there. Then get a book of Bible stories and start there.
Great reply thank you!
Thank you GetRealWisdom
This is the BEST & Most informative, intellectually & veracious spoken TRUTH that the blind, wicked ignorant will never realize till the afterlife when they will be crying, begging, screaming, cursing when it will be to late, but will in the end have to accept the hard Truth. GOD gave you life and chances & you did not Believe, have Faith & Love in more than what you can see with your eyes. Can you count the stars in the skies? Do you know where the edge of the universe is? Only GOD does, just like he knows what’s Truly in a Man’s heart. But the True Believer will see All the mysteries and wonders 1Cor. 6:9 No unrighteous will go to Heaven. Titus 2:13 Looking for the blessed hope and Glorious appearing
John 3:16 – 19 this verse for the ppl who need to read & know.
Great reply! Thank U & God Bless! I pray all who read it repent & join Jesus’ army & live in Heaven (paradise) for all eternity or they will choose not to follow Jesus & will be cast into the fire of hell & will be in eternal torture & damnation with their god – satan!! Satan is your choice if you refuse to believe in God & Jesus & repent!! I’m praying for U!!!! God Bless us all!!!!
I don’t care which term is used, I was raised with BC and AD. I will continue to use them. Other can use BCE and CE and I will take the moment to translate what they mean, just like I expect them to do the same for BC and AD. If everyone knows BC = BCE and AD = CE, who cares what term is used. No what would anger me is if they had instead said “No they were wrong in the past use BC for modern times and AD for the long ago past”… that is changing the meaning of words.
The bottom line of this discussion/argument about replacing BC and AD for BCE and CE is that the Liberals’ refuse to mention, and much less, to give honor to our Creator in their speech and it was adapted exactly to eliminate the great name of our LORD (Jesus Christ) from their vocabulary.
BC (before Christ), and AD (anno Domini, or In The Year of the Lord), are just non-threatening letters of the alphabet, but those who lack intelligence and morals make it an issue to purposely stir up the normal flow of communication among the masses just because of their innate hatred and contempt in their hearts toward our Most High God; the One whom they need the most to fill up their natural spiritual void and peace.
Also, those who are in charge of Academia will impose their uncanny ideas on the rest of us whether we like it or not, to create schism among the naive just as they are currently doing with their list of new unfitting Pronouns replacing the perfectly normal ones: HE, SHE, THEY, etc.
All of us are the majority, and it is time to stand up to the minority!
First, tell me where is God and why should we believe that an old invisible man is ‘ up there somewhere’ watching each of us continuously, billions of us , in our daily actions and judging us. Where is Satan? Down below us trying to get us to buy guns and kill each other, it seems. Both god and satin are human inventions for powerful men to make us do what they want us to do. That’s all.
See answer above
BCE = Before Christian Era
CE = Christian Era
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C.E. really is not a recent term, unless you mean over the last several hundred years. It is not uncommon to see “C.E.” or “of the Common Era” on documents written around the time of this nation’s founding.
This is the reason it is so remarkable that, contrary to atheist contentions that the Constitution does not mention God, the framers chose to express the date as “in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven.”
Sorry. It has always been the Common Era. If you go back several hundred years, it was often spelled out “of the Common Era.” It is abbreviated C.E.
It has not always been common era, if you can only go back “several hundred years.” Now if you could go back several thousands of years and find it in that context maybe the always thing might stick.
AD? CE? BC? Actually, as I write this on September 1, 2019 AD, the year is actually 5778 from creation. I believe this dating system is the timing of the Scriptures and not AD, BC, CE, etc. I think that this “changing of time” may have been referred to in Daniel 7:25 by the “diverse king” who comes after the ten kings. “And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to CHANGE TIMES and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.” (Daniel 7:25). Those of us who are Gentiles sometimes approach the Scriptures thinking they are about us. Actually, the Scriptures are about Israel and Israel’s Messiah, Who grafted us Gentiles–a wild branch–in to the Root of Israel (Rom 11:17).
Just another way of looking at it.
INFORMATIVE,
Maybe it was a reason why lots of races, tribe, and country dont rely in GREGORIAN CALENDAR , JULIAN CALENDAR , SOTHIC CALENDAR , ROMAN CALENDAR because it gives a lot if CONFUSION in calculating and tracking time and date ….
Like MUSLIM, they RELY IN THERE OWNED ARABIC CALENDAR…..
Thanks
Question?
Tell me how the Christian world accepts the 10 Commandments up until the 4th Commandment when God say explicitly “Remember the Sabbath day and keep it Holy”…..but it is the one that most want to forget…..the Sabbath which is Saturday in many languages is put aside.
The significance of Gods sovereignty over the universe will be wholly binding for eternity….and He calls His true worshippers out of Babylon(confusion) into a greater experience with Him……who will take a stand for God, when He gave everything (Jesus) for us!?!?
Man made up the names of the days and put them in an order that they wanted and God said remember the Sabbath, it meant the 7th day not the first day and that is what confuses people. We are the ones who put the days in whatever order we wanted and not GOD. We could have a Tuesday for the Sabbath but we have the day we wanted. You can take any day to make your Sabbath as long as you keep it Holy. It doesn’t matter what day, man made the last day Saturday. So whatever day you make Holy unto the LORD is your Sabbath. Just try GOD and see how your life changes. Go ahead, I dare you to try GOD.
I like to say that B.C.E doesn’t mean “Before thr Common Era” bu t it means “Before Christ Existed” and the C.E isn’t “Common Era” but “Christ Exists”.
If you really want to know more about the “timelines” which the Bible does not give, as the Bible is truly “timeless”, read a work by an Anglican Archbishop James Ussher The Annals of the World (written around 1650) and then a more recent dissertation by Dr Floyd Nolen Jones The Chronology of the Old Testament 1993.
I do know that the introduction of the BCE and CE was meant to remove Christ even further away from the world. I am with Bruce Beckwith as I also say Before Christ Existed and Christ Exists…. drives the non-believers crazy… LOL…
Ussher based his chronology on 7 Millenial periods of time, and thus his dates are made to add to that. e.g.: creation in 4004Bc to his date for Christ’s birth: 4 BC, 4BC to the end of this age in 1997AD,etc. The bible allows for more time than this (up to 400 years difference to creation based on Hebrew MSS), though many think their chronologies are the only ones that work.
All I want to say is I love you all, God bless and all glory goes to the Lord Jesus Christ Amen! Never forget because when you truly have your Jesus moment ,theirs no longer going back because you finally see he loves you no matter who or what you are. So wait in him in the spirit because the kingdom’s of this world are the kingdom’s of our Lord . All will see his glory , and he wants you me and all to see his love and turn from the sin the world has cast upon us we must resist the devil and put on the full armor of God. God bless you all amen. None of this cheap matters bc,ad, ass ,whatever he’s drawn the line where do we stand .
Golly Gee ! What a fascinating collection of nerdy opinion. One out of 5 children anywhere of any religion go to bed hungry; any calendar you name or create counts the days of their hunger pains. We only have a short time on earth, all you nerds should get off your educated duffs and do something that requires GRACE. Now there’s a subject….have you even heard of it ?
These days, BC stands for Before COVID.
All these “scholars” on here. Lol.
I’m not religious at all, so BC/AD never bothered me. It’s a matter of how sensitive people are to all that stuff.Looking at society today, pulling itself apart over notions that didn’t matter so much. Now all the tiny things are driving people to madness – for literally no reason. Very entertaining to watch as none of it bothers me.
If AD annotated the first year was in the birth of our lord then it had to begin at 0. Jesus did not turn 1 upon birth….
When counting we do not begin at 1 either. We start from a dead stop to make the progression to 1.
If it were as you say Based on the epoch of his birth, I Can assure you that the mathematics were accurate and January 1st was only written then. For if it had began at “1” year then we would already be starting to form the second year, which would be impossible on a timeline of truth. It would be the same as saying Jesus was in his 32 year of life when he was killed. When I know, God knows, and surely Jesus knows he was 33..
So yeah, you do begin at zero in everything you do. If not time would be off and the year 2,000 or 1,000, or 500, or even 250 AD just didn’t exist. Zero doesn’t mean nothing. It is a starting point. I can surely say this conversation was had long ago…and they were served up just like you.
Those references are to the year or length of time. The first year was from zero to the beginning of the 2nd year, which began the time frame of year 2, from period 1 to the end of period 2.
Who would have understood the concept you correctly presented at that time and since then? You are correct about the number of years to describe someone’s age, but a person is in their 1st year until they reach and celebrate their 1st birthday. Today we tend to only recognize their birthday as their age during the following year. Infants are aged at some number of months, i.e. a 6-month old child.
BCE = Before Christ’s Era
CE = Christ’s Era
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Jesus is LORD. God bless yall!
WISHING TO LEARN MORE ABOUT TIME AND SEASONS SINCE THE CREATION OF THE WORLD