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Originally Posted by hunnychile
Then why do historians & all societies list dates as A.D. or B.C. ?
I feel 100% certain that Jesus lived. There are too many historical accounts that have existed and still exist to make me believe otherwise.
We're not debating his divinity, BTW.
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Well, most modern historians don't use AD. They use CE, which stands for Current Era. BCE is now the standard and is BCE. They kept the same date. You're guilty of making a pretty Western-centric set of assumptions there.
And not all societies used BC/AD. The Chinese, for instance, along with Muslims did and do not. You're only speaking of Western societies that had the Julian calendar imposed upon them by the Romans. It wasn't until the 750's that they all adopted a common year based upon the birth of Christ. Prior to that, it was a nightmare to calculate years since each little nation-state would have their own start point.
He probably lived.