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NART (Not another Religion Thread) SO if the Jewish people don't believe Jesus was "The Christ"

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Brutuskend

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Do they use a differant DATE system?

Common dating is B.C. (Before Christ) and A.D. (After death) or at least it is in this and other "Christian" countries. Do they have a differant dating system in Israel and Muslim countries?😕
I would assume The Catholic Church brought about the dating system we are familiar with. What was the common dating system before the change?
 
Originally posted by: jumpr
Yes. Today is the first day of the month of Kislev, year 5765 in the Jewish calendar.

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Unfortunately for Jewish people the rest of the world has standardized on a date system starting when Jesus was supposedly born (I say supposedly because apparently it's off by a few years).

Side note, as of a few years back they changed the notation from B.C. (before Christ) to B.C.E (before common era) and A.D. became C.E (common era).
 
Originally posted by: RaynorWolfcastle
Side note, as of a few years back they changed the notation from B.C. (before Christ) to B.C.E (before common era) and A.D. became C.E (common era).
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'they' being atheist historians with nothing better to do
 
lol... yup. There's lots of calendar systems out there. We all just us the most common one only to simplify things.
 
Originally posted by: Brutuskend
I would assume The Catholic Church brought about the dating system we are familiar with. What was the common dating system before the change?
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There were two common dating systems in Europe before the BC/AD system. One was the regnal years, i.e. in the 10th year of King George III. Acts of Parliament used those until after WW2. People didn't always use their own king or stop using them when the king died; years based on the reign of Emperor Diocletian were used for a couple of centuries after his death.

The other system was AUC (ab urbe condita), years after the founding of Rome. The AD/BC system is based off the AUC system, with the beginning of 1AD corresponding to 1 Jan 754AUC. Archaelogical evidence indicates that peope lived on the hills of Rome long before 1AUC, but it's the traditional date used by the Romans.

In 523, the Catholic church introduced the AD/BC system, but incorrectly fixed the date of Jesus birth as 25 December 753 AUC. Of course, there was no unity in the West, so it took some time for English speakers to start using the new system. The Venerable Bede used it when he wrote his famous history of England around 700, which is how the AD/BC system became common in the English-speaking world.

 
Originally posted by: Brutuskend
A.D. (After death)
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Doesn't A.D. stand for Anno Domino (year of the lord)? Not sure if I spelled that right, but if A.D. did stand for after death there dould be a small discrepancy in time.

 
Originally posted by: futuristicmonkey
Originally posted by: Brutuskend
A.D. (After death)
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Doesn't A.D. stand for Anno Domino (year of the lord)? Not sure if I spelled that right, but if A.D. did stand for after death there dould be a small discrepancy in time.
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yes "in the year of our Lord"
 
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