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[1] B.C. stands for "before Christ" and AD, stands for "Anno Domini": "in the year of the Lord." Both are references to Jesus. Because Jews do not believe in the divinity of Jesus, they use the abbreviations BCE, for "Before the Common Era" (that is, before the year 1), and CE, for "Common Era" (that is, after the year 1). See for this:
Common Era (CE) and Before the Common Era (BCE) are year notations for the Gregorian calendar (and its predecessor, the Julian calendar), the world's most widely used calendar era. Common Era and Before the Common Era are alternatives to the original Anno Domini (AD) and Before Christ (BC) notations used for the same calendar era. The two ...
Someone used interpretation of BCE/CE (before/common era) as "Before Christian Era/Christian Era" as an argument for BC/AD, but IMO that is a better argument for BCE/CE. ←Humus sapiens←Talk 07:07, 16 May 2005 (UTC) BC/AD is certainly POV. BCE/CE may also be, but raises the issue in the discussion instead of hiding it in commonality.
The terms anno Domini (AD) and before Christ (BC) are used when designating years in the Gregorian and Julian calendars. The term anno Domini is Medieval Latin and means "in the year of the Lord" [ 1 ] but is often presented using "our Lord" instead of "the Lord", [ 2 ] [ 3 ] taken from the full original phrase " anno Domini nostri Jesu Christi ...
There is a reason they insist on replacing “A.D.” with “BCE,” as though that would somehow change the fact that we number our very years from the life of Christ. That isn’t disbelief ...
The 1st century BC, also known as the last century BC and the last century BCE, started on the first day of 100 BC and ended on the last day of 1 BC. The AD/BC notation does not use a year zero; however, astronomical year numbering does use a zero, as well as a minus sign, so "2 BC" is equal to "year –1". 1st century AD (Anno Domini) follows.
If I understand your argument, though, before concluding that "BC" and "BCE" represent two different points of view, I would point out that "BC" and "BCE" refer to different "facts" (or "fact-claims") BC represents the fact-claim that Jesus was Christ. BCE represents the fact-claim that we live in a world dominated by the Christian calendar ...
Modern scholarship, however, regards the birth of Christ to have taken place between 6 and 4 BC. [1. Millennium: 1st millennium BC: Centuries ... 1912 before ROC