Posted on 05/06/2025 1:46:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Bkmk
Stopped right there. There's no such thing as BCE.
Cyrus is called “His messiah (annointed)” in Isaiah 45:1.
לִמְשִׁיחוֹ֘ לְכ֣וֹרֶשׁ limshicho l’khoresh
Stopped right there. There’s no such thing as BCE.
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...and since they were discussing jewish prophesy, perhaps they should just use the hebrew calendar.
More and more, we see BCE and CE instead of BC and AD.
Why is this? Does it offend the sensibilities of liberals that much, to acknowledge that the years on our calendar date from the time of Christ?
But if they are that offended, why don’t they count years from some other event,
Before the Common Era is the current manner in which that period is referred to
Get over your own self
French Revolution "Year One" in 1793 (calendar abandoned in 1805).
Khmer Rouge "Year Zero" in 1975
Do you ever wonder who decided we should make the change to CE and BCE? What was wrong with BC and AD?
We can understand that many now use that terminology, but also wonder why it was decided it needed to be changed.
Before Christ Evangelized.
Before Christ Emmanueled
Nice!
Cyrus II of Persia, commonly known as Cyrus the Great, was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire.
Alexander was Great too. Very very great. They were both big, beautiful, great leaders.
But were they as great as ... Donald “Big Johnson” Trump?
I don’t think so pal.
take your own advice.
It's like women who get married and use a hyphenated last name. They assert their grrrl power(!) by using the last names of both their father and their husband.
"Common" seems like a dumb word to use. I would prefrr "before our era" and "our era" (in German they have vor unser Zeit and unser Zeit).
It would have made dealing with Greek and Roman history easier if an earlier starting point had been chosen like the birth of Abraham (we don't know the exact year but a date could have been arbitrarily selected, say 2001 B.C). So now we would be in 4025 Y.A.
So was yours, obviously: my imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
You should make sure to never read anything from anyone that doesn’t agree with you perfectly.
It may cause you to learn something from considering their arguments, and that is just too risky.
I always chuckle at CE and BCE because it affirms the very thing they are trying to deny.
If you don’t understand your opponent’s argument, you don’t completely understand your own.
Grow up.
31% of the world is “Christian”
You don’t get to decide how time is calculated for the rest of us based upon your beliefs about a Jewish Prophet.
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