Originally Posted By: Fursniper
The evidence to show the existence of God is similar to this example. There were thousands of eye witnesses who interacted with Jesus, but the tangible physical evidence has been erased over time. This does not mean God never happened.
Thousands of eyewitnesses do not exist outside the Biblical "history".
The Bible doesn't prove the Bible.
Originally Posted By: Fursniper
Circumstantial evidence available today would be the year on our calendar which is based on the death of Jesus. When considering how enormous an event would have to be to reset the world calendar to the year one again, the impact Jesus had on earth must have been astronomical.
Sorry, Jesus didn't do that-a monk did it.
The Church did it to get rid of a thorn in their side-kinda like a sharp stick poked in the eye of a dead emperor:
https://www.livescience.com/45510-anno-domini.html
When is Easter?
In the early Middle Ages, the most important calculation, and thus one of the main motivations for the European study of mathematics, was the problem of when to celebrate Easter. The First Council of Nicaea, in A.D. 325, had decided that Easter would fall on the Sunday following the full moon that follows the spring equinox. Computus (Latin for computation) was the procedure for calculating this most important date, and the computations were set forth in documents known as Easter tables. It was on one such table that, in A.D. 525, a monk named Dionysius Exiguus of Scythia Minor introduced the A.D. system, counting the years since the birth of Christ.
Anno Diocletiani to Anno Domini
Dionysius devised his system to replace the Diocletian system, named after the 51st emperor of Rome, who ruled from A.D. 284 to A.D. 305. The first year in Dionysius' Easter table, “Anno Domini 532,” followed the year “Anno Diocletiani 247.” Dionysius made the change specifically to do away with the memory of this emperor who had been a ruthless persecutor of Christians.
Spread of the system
The B.C./A.D. system gained in popularity in the ninth century after Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne adopted the system for dating acts of government throughout Europe.
If you remember, the Church controlled every single aspect of life until just a few hundred years ago.
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The evidence to show the existence of God is similar to this example. There were thousands of eye witnesses who interacted with Jesus, but the tangible physical evidence has been erased over time. This does not mean God never happened.
Thousands of eyewitnesses do not exist outside the Biblical "history".
The Bible doesn't prove the Bible.
Originally Posted By: Fursniper
Circumstantial evidence available today would be the year on our calendar which is based on the death of Jesus. When considering how enormous an event would have to be to reset the world calendar to the year one again, the impact Jesus had on earth must have been astronomical.
Sorry, Jesus didn't do that-a monk did it.
The Church did it to get rid of a thorn in their side-kinda like a sharp stick poked in the eye of a dead emperor:
https://www.livescience.com/45510-anno-domini.html
When is Easter?
In the early Middle Ages, the most important calculation, and thus one of the main motivations for the European study of mathematics, was the problem of when to celebrate Easter. The First Council of Nicaea, in A.D. 325, had decided that Easter would fall on the Sunday following the full moon that follows the spring equinox. Computus (Latin for computation) was the procedure for calculating this most important date, and the computations were set forth in documents known as Easter tables. It was on one such table that, in A.D. 525, a monk named Dionysius Exiguus of Scythia Minor introduced the A.D. system, counting the years since the birth of Christ.
Anno Diocletiani to Anno Domini
Dionysius devised his system to replace the Diocletian system, named after the 51st emperor of Rome, who ruled from A.D. 284 to A.D. 305. The first year in Dionysius' Easter table, “Anno Domini 532,” followed the year “Anno Diocletiani 247.” Dionysius made the change specifically to do away with the memory of this emperor who had been a ruthless persecutor of Christians.
Spread of the system
The B.C./A.D. system gained in popularity in the ninth century after Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne adopted the system for dating acts of government throughout Europe.
If you remember, the Church controlled every single aspect of life until just a few hundred years ago.
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