J

Ok. Lately I have been spending more time reading and studying the Word of God. I have this very helpful hand book to compliment my daily readings of this awesome book called the B-i-b-l-e. The handbook provides insight and background / historical context to the people, places, and events that I'm reading about in the bible. I love getting the whole story - the history to unveil the mystery! (I'm only a little dorky) :)

I have been sending some of these fun 'epiphanies' to friends in emails and then thought to share them with all of you too. Some will be an ah-ha! moment and some will be oh interesting.

Today I will share this little historical calendar nugget:

B.C. is in fact ‘before Christ’

A.D. is not 'after death.' It is Latin and means “anno domina” or “the year of our Lord”

The monk, Dionysius, assigned with the task of redesigning a new calendar (after the Roman Empire fell and Christianity became the universal religion) divided history into the years before Christ and after the birth of Christ. Appropriately so as the life, Crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus was / is a BIG deal ... such a big deal that the world's dating system centers around it... or tried to ;)

It is now known that Dionysius made a math error and 1 A.D is not actually the year of Jesus’ birth but he was born 5 or 6 years earlier. SO, Jesus was born in 6 or 5 B.C.!

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To me this was an 'oh that's interesting' moment. One of those precious intelligent nuggets that will make you sound smarter in a conversation ;)

Have a productive and blessed Thursday!!

Julia