HAPPY NEW YEAR! Its 2008!

[tarheel91]

Game_boy said:

Sqrl said:
Well since the world seems to go with the "count how long its been since that one guy died" calendar wouldn't it technically be 2008 as soon as it strikes midnight in Jerusalem since that is where he supposedly died? I mean thats where the timer would be valid from right?

It's actually meant to be Jesus' birth. However, even theologists agree it would not have been the exact date, even if Jesus did exist which is scientifically improbable.

 

I prefer BCE and CE dating.

 That was unnecessary and totally irrelevant to the topic.  Seems a tad trollish to me.

@Sqrl: Yeah, Jesus death was on Nisan 14th which generally puts it in the March/April time frame.  There's no way Jesus birth would have been in the winter.  Bethlehem was noted for its harsh winters, and the Scriptures indicate that the sheperds were out in the fields with their sheep around the time Jesus was born.  Doesn't make much sense, does it?