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Actually, I thought it was the Romans who decided to use the year 0 when we use it. Of course, I don't really see why it matters when it happened, I don't think anyone actually claims that the people of Jesus' time are the ones responsible for it. Especially considering that, if they were, we now know that they were likely off by a few years because based on astronomical data it is likely that Jesus was born around the year 4 BC.
There is one major flaw in cooperricko's argument that "unless you were there" you should not believe something. I was not there when Einstein discovered relativity. I have not done the math to prove it myself. Yet, I believe in the relative (no pun intended) accuracy of his theory because other people whom I respect have told me that it makes sense. I don't really KNOW that it does, but I do know that if all humans ever did was go off their immediate knowledge we would get nowhere - we would constantly be reinventing the wheel.
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