Theos-Talk Archives (April 1999 Message tt00060)

Richtay@aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 3/22/99 11:31:35 PM, you wrote:
> 
> <<How is zero A.D. arrived at?  An alignment of planets?>>
> 
> A.D. stands for "Anno Domini" or "The Year of Our Lord" referring of course to
> Christ's birth.  This was calculated by monks in the early Middle Ages and
> stuck as the standard Western dating method in time, though in fact Rome and
> other Western nations had used a great variety of calendars.
> 
> Modern scholarship, ironically, puts Jesus' birth around 7 B.C., or "Before
> Christ."

	There are a number of events and personages who were mentioned as being
alive at the birth of Jesus, and some of them were dead by 4 B.C. Of
course, many of the events should have had records, had they occurred
(such as the Star of Bethlehem), but don't. In fact, outside of the New
Testament, there is not a shred of evidence that Jesus ever existed.

	Bart Lidofsky

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