What does B.C and A.D stand for?

Question

I never remember learning that!

Answer 1

Before Christ and Anno Domini (often referred to as "after Christ).

However, a more politically correct version is BCE and CE, meaning Before the Common Era and Common Era.

Both are the same scale of time, before and after the year 0.

Edit: AD does not mean After Death, as Christ died in the year 33. He was born in year 0.

Answer 2

B.C.~before christ

A.D.~after death

Answer 3

B. C. stands for "Before Christ" (Before the birth of Christ)

A. D. stands for "After Death" (After the death of Christ)

And this is just another testimony of Jesus: his time here on earth was so important that time is measured by it!

-Ali :-D

Answer 4

BC: before Christ

AD: Anno Domini (Latin for "The Year of the Lord")

Answer 5

BC:

Before Christ

meaning before the birth of christ

AD:

After death

after death means after death of christ

Answer 6

Before Christ

After Death

Answer 7

Before Christ (BC) and Anno Domini (AD)(commonly said "After Death" though it's Latin for "the Year of the Lord).

What is politically correct these days are BCE (Before Common Era) as a substitute for BC and CE (Common Era) for AD.

Answer 8

B.C stands for Before Christ, A.D. is Ano Domini (Latin-The Year of our Lord) it cant be 'after death' because it started 4 years after Christ was born, not after he died.

Answer 9

b.c= before christ a.d= after death.. i think ps. if ur name is Jessica so is mine :D well good luck with this

Answer 10

Before Christ and Ada something  (i don't know much about the a.d.)

Answer 11

before christ after death

Answer 12

BC- before Christ

AD- ano domini

Answer 13

The answers before are basically correct. BC stands for Before Christ. This indicates things that happened more that 2008 years ago and it goes backwards (e.g. something that happened in 400BC happened *before* something that happened in 300BC).

AD stands for Anno Domini, which means In the Year of Our Lord (and the lord is Jesus). Basically, the common dating system. So, 1492, 1776, 1929 and 2008 are all AD.

Note: there is *NO* year 0. The concept of 0 didn't exist until after the dating system was created, and it was too much trouble to try and re-date all BC events. Also, because the guy who created the system was slightly inaccurate, Jesus was actually born in a different year than 1 AD. The number I've heard the most often is 4 BC, but it was some year between 7 BC and 2 BC.

I personally, along with some other non-Christians, do not use BC and AD. I use BCE (before common era) and CE (common era). It covers the same dates as the BC and AD system, but without the religious connotations.

Answer 14

B.C. is before Christ.

A.D. is latin and is Anno Domini which leans in the year of our Lord.

Answer 15

Before Christ and After Death

Answer 16

before christ and anno domini

Answer 17

Before Christ and Anno Domini

After Death is erronius.

Anno Domini means in the era of Jesus or after his birth or his arrival or his presence on Earth.

Answer 18

I'm pretty sure BC is before christ and AD is after death.  Not 100% positive,  but about 85%...

Answer 19

Anno Domini (In the year of (Our) Lord), abbreviated as AD or A.D., is a designation used to number years in the Christian Era, conventionally used with the Julian and Gregorian calendars. More fully, years may be also specified as Anno Domini Nostri Iesu (Jesu) Christi ("In the Year of Our Lord Jesus Christ").

The calendar era which it numbers is based on the traditionally reckoned year of the conception or birth of Jesus. Similarly, Before Christ, abbreviated as BC or B.C., is used in the English language to denote years before the start of this epoch.

Answer 20

Actually the proper terms are Before the Common Era and Anno Domini

Answer 21

B.C. means before Christ

A.D. means ano domini, not after death