I get a kick out of the way people go out of their way to
misrepresent things such as you just did.
B.C. is an abbreviation for “Before Christ.” A.D. is an abbreviation for “anno Domini,” which is Latin for “in the year of our Lord.”
B.C. and A.D. are commonly used to count years in time. Jesus Christ’s birth is used as a starting point to count years that existed before (B.C.) and after (A.D.) He was born. For example, the year 532 B.C. refers to the time 532 years before A.D. 1, when Christ was assumed to have been born.
Dionysius Exiguus,
a monk, invented the B.C./A.D. method during the Middle Ages, early in the sixth century. Commissioned by the pope, he did this to determine the correct date for Easter. His counting method determined Christ’s birth to be the year A.D. 1. However, Jesus was actually born a few years earlier, in the year 4 B.C.
And belief has nothing to do with this one, I'm afraid.
then why is AD connected to the birth of Jesus Crist?
So in 523(AD) or so, they wrote up this fantasy novel (or stole stories for it, like Horace... aka Jesus), called it the bible,
Moses wrote the first 5 Books of the Bible apx 1000 - 1500 years before AD.
your talking about the New Testament.
this little calendar education is backed up by actual texts (or tomes?).
But the actual text you speak of was written long after the
Jewish Bible. ( the tora or the first 5 Books of the Bible )
they used actual text also , so what point are you attempting to make?
the New Testament wasn't written 532 years after Jesus. You may be referring to 325 AD, when the Council of Nicaea officially recognized the New Testament as having been written by God. But by then, Christians had been reading the New Testament as God's Word already for two centuries.
So when was the New Testament written?
Acts, the fifth book in the New Testament, is a methodical account of the early church written by a doctor named Luke when he was the assistant to and the note taker for the Apostle Paul.
62 AD was when Paul was martyred in Rome. 64 AD was when Emperor Nero burnt Rome and blamed the fire on Christians to launch the Roman persecution of Christians, and 70 AD was when the future Emperor Titus sacked Jerusalem; both were major milestones in the history of early Christianity.
So what?
If a historical account of New York City mentions the construction and the presence of the twin towers of the World Trade Center but ends without mentioning their destruction, that historical account predates September 11, 2001. This conclusion is warranted, isn't it?
Acts ends without mentioning the sacking of Jerusalem in 70 AD; this indicates that Acts predates 70 AD.
Acts also ends without mentioning the great fire in Rome and the ensuing Roman persecution of Christians across the Roman empire; this indicates that Acts also predates 64 AD.
Acts ends just after mentioning Paul's completion of his 2 year imprisonment in Rome but without mentioning his martyrdom in 62 AD. This indicates that Acts was completed in 62 AD.
