B.C. And A.D.

[pocaracas]

Yeah well. A walking talking "son of god" didn't exist either, but when did reality ever stop a moron from having "faith"?

Absolutely but what astounded me is I can PROVE that the year 0 DOESN'T exist (one rare instance when you can prove a negative). It was never put into the historical timeline. It really underscores how Christians never closely examine their own beliefs.

To be truthful, the current calendar, the Gregorian, was introduced in 1582 (wiki link). Before that, people used the Julian Calendar, introduced by Julius Ceaser in 46 B.C. (or BCE - wiki link). This Julian calendar was a reform of the previous roman calendar and, as we well know, roman numerals didn't have a zero. Hence the first year of the julian calendar (our 45 BC) was year 1. The year before that was year -1. This rule was also adopted by the Gregorian calendar.

Curiously, this means that, until the year 1582, Christ had been born on year 45...