Historians who record human history try to fix a time for every event that has ever happened on this earth by a reference system. European historians who were predominantly Roman Catholics (RC are not Christian) started following the Julian calendar and later the Gregorian Calendar (instituted in Oct 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII and authorized by him) and put the birth of Jesus Christ as the beginning of the new era.

Historians thought that the birth of Jesus Christ would be the best milestone for reference in the history of mankind – and rightly so as you would have been following in ABHOT. So, AD was attached to any date after that historic birth date in His-story. Every date subsequent to this year is calculated from the year of the Lord Jesus Christ. Anno Domini – Anno means year and Domini means the Lord, in Latin, the only recognized official language by the Roman Catholics at that time (and long afterward). All dates prior to this year are denoted by BC, which is Before Christ, which is English, not Latin. Jesus Christ created His-story and history by being born into this world as the very image of God. He (Christ, the Son of God) is the image of the invisible God – Col 1:15; 2 Cor 4:4. Who (Christ) being the brightness of His (God’s) glory, and the express image of his person – Heb 1:3. But BC is a misnomer. Christ being God, has always existed even before time, space and matter came into being. So, there was nothing (certainly not the “nothing” of the evolutionists 😊) Before Christ. BCE was introduced by modern Historians intending to get rid of the term Christ from history books to make history more secular. According to them, BCE is Before Common Era and CE is Common Era. But why is the present era called Common Era and why any time prior to that is an uncommon era, only modern-day historians must answer. A more appropriate expansion to BCE could be Before Christ on Earth and anything after that His-storical event could be CE, i.e., Christ on Earth.

Here is a note on the widely used civil calendar in the world – the Gregorian Calendar. No child was born from 5th Oct 1582 to 14th Oct 1582 on the Gregorian Calendar! This was because, the Gregorian calendar was the refined Julian Calendar (that was in use prior to the Papal Bull, a sort of an ordinance by the Pope on Feb 24, 1582, which almost all Europe obeyed). In order to deal with a ten-day accumulated drift that occurred due to the shortening of the Gregorian day to the Julian day by 648 seconds or 10.80 minutes per day, it was necessary to advance the date so that 4th October 1582 (a Julian Thursday) was followed by 15th October 1582 (a Gregorian Friday). There was no discontinuity in the cycle of weekdays in the Gregorian calendar – only the dates were advanced and not the respective days.