So if GOD doesn't exist what actually happened 2008 years ago?

Question: "What is the meaning of BC and AD (B.C. and A.D.)?"

Answer: It is commonly thought that BC stands for "before Christ" and AD stands for "after death." This is only half correct. How could the year 1 B.C. have been "before Christ" and 1 A.D. been "after death"? BC does stand for "before Christ." AD actually stands for the Latin phrase "anno domini" which means "in the year of our Lord." The B.C. / A.D. dating system is not taught in the Bible. It actually was not fully implemented and accepted until several centuries after Jesus' death.

It is interesting to note that the purpose of the BC / AD dating system was to make the birth of Jesus Christ the dividing point of world history. However, when the B.C. / A.D. system was being calculated, they actually made a mistake in pinpointing the year of Jesus' birth. Scholars later discovered that Jesus was actually born in around 4-6 BC, not 0 AD. That is not the crucial issue. The birth, life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Christ are the "turning points" in world history. It is fitting, therefore, that Jesus Christ is the separation of "old" and "new." BC was "before Christ" and since His birth, we have been living "in the year of our Lord." Philippians 2:10-11, "That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."
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Clearly, they saw that the B.C date had reached 0 and thought ", we're about to go into A.D years and have nothing to show for it. Erm. Erm. I know! See that baby over there? He's the new messiah. That should do it."


NO SWEARING
 
Reality|Bites said:
I mean what made the whole planet reset the calender?

I mean do the muslims and Budists believe the same as the Catholics and Prodestants?
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Are you serious?

We're in year 2008 of the gregorian calendar. Year 0 was supposedly the year of the incarnation of Jesus, although we didn't actually start officially using the gregorian calender (read: widespread) until the 16th century.

Islam and Buddhism have nothing to do with the gregorian calender, and IIRC they both follow different calendars.
 
Some nutbag "came down" and claimed to be the messiah, the son of god. It made the Jews wince, somebody wrote a book about it called the new testament, some people followed both old and new testaments, some remained only believing in the old.

Thats about it....

I think.
 
Tom0 said:
Some nutbag "came down" and claimed to be the messiah, the son of god. It made the Jews wince, somebody wrote a book about it called the new testament, some people followed both old and new testaments, some remained only believing in the old.

Thats about it....

I think.
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Except Jesus never claimed to be the messiah.
 
Lots of people believe that Jesus existed and that all sorts of happenings that have been proven to be quite normal add to his "Believability" but that doesn't mean he had to be superior in anyway. Plus this has no relevance to god..
 
rghjones said:
It's still 2008 in every country though? So there must be some linkage.
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Not necessarily anything more than the spread of Catholicism in the 15th and 16th centuries. By the time the Western and Eastern worlds truly came together I guess that it is possible that we simply imposed our calendar on them.

Or it is possible that Christ was really a great man in Jerusalem, an outpost of what is now, at least in part, the Muslim faith; as such his life and death impacted upon everybody, no matter what religion.
 
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