Ticking With Time

Prehistoric man, by simple observation of stars, changes in seasons, day and night began to come up with very primitive methods of measuring time. This was necessary for planning nomadic activities. Once a societies immediate needs of food, shelter and clothing is fulfilled, it attempts to place itself within a sequence of time based on historical or mythical date. The earliest time measurement devices before clocks and watches were the sundial, hourglass and water clock.

Time was not invented, at least not in the conventional sense. In fact, time does not exist at all. Time is merely a convention of thought and conversation. If time actually existed, it could be measured and quantified by something that cannot be suspended. So what is "time?" Time is relativity. Someone says "yesterday," and you think of time passing. However, yesterday isn't a distance away from "now" that can be measured in an absolute that we know as "time." Now is really simply here, and yesterday is the Earth spinning.

It is commonly thought that B.C. stands for “before Christ” and A.D. stands for “after death.” This is half correct.  B.C. does stand for “before Christ.” But A.D. stands in Latin which means “In the Year of our Lord.” The B.C. / A.D. dating system is not taught in the Bible. It actually was not fully implemented and accepted until several centuries after Jesus death.

It is interesting to note B.C. /A.D. dating system was to make birth of Jesus Christ the dividing point of world history. However, when the B.C. /A.D. system was being calculated, they actually made a mistake in PinPointing the year of Jesus’ birth. Scholars later discovered that Jesus was actually born around 6—4 B.C., not A.D.1. The birth, life, death, & resurrection of Christ are the “turning points” in world history. It is fitting, therefore, that Jesus Christ is the separation of “old” and “new.” B.C. was “before Christ,” and since His birth, we have been living “in the year of our Lord.”

 In recent times, there has been a Push to replace the B.C. and A.D. labels with B.C.E and C.E., meaning “before common era” and “common era,” respectively. Practically every aspect of modern life is based around time, even if we as individuals are unaware of this.