Jesus wasn't dead for 1 year when he died. The calendar starts at year 0 AD, not 1 AD. Except for logic you're 100% right

 

I love it when a plan comes together. LOL


it is really 6/half dozen I guess.


This thread is the by-product of a very bizarre day for me......

 

Rusty....your points would make some sense if the natural order of counting in the base 10 system started counting at -1 or 9...but they dont

 

so there is reference to something happening in the year 0??


it either 1 BC or 1 AD The 0 event was, for lack of a better explaination, an instantaneous unmeasurable point in the time line.

As soon as it was decide to go to AD we were in some part of year 1...there was no year 0

If we want to look at BC/AD as Before Christ's (death) and After Death....as soon as the bearded dude croaked...AD started...any portion of the year, or the whole of it, is considered year 1...not year 0

X happened in july of year 1AD...not july of year 0AD

 

This.

 

The calendar we use doesn't have anything to do with anything. It was devised to figure out when easter is. I misspoke, there is no year 0. Christ was born in about 18 BC and died sometime before his 50th birthday (according to scripture) making 1AD somewhere in the middle of his life. AD stands for Anno Domini "the year of our lord (Jesus Christ)" not after death as I said earlier.

In other words sometime in 16th century the pope declared this is 15xx AD and that was that. it wasn't based on math, it was based on figuring out when Easter should be.

The whole concept of it is or isn't a decade is moot because a decade is ten years regardless of where you start. Since 1AD is basically picked out of convenience it doesn't matter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_Domini