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The historical timeline splits into two heart for pastoral leadership main groups: B.C. (“before Christ”) and A.D. (Latin phrase “anno domini,” which means “in the year of our Lord”). These labels were not fully implement and accept until several centuries after Jesus’ death.

However, when the developers made a mistake in pinpointing the year of Jesus’ birth.

Scholars later actually discover that Jesus was born around 6-4 B.C., not 1 A.D. While not the crucial issue, the birth, life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Christ are the “turning points” in world history. Therefore, since Jesus Christ is the separation of “old” and “new.”

Although modern historians now use the labels B.C.E (Before Common Era) and C.E. (Common Era), StudyLight.org will still use the originals.