Quote Originally Posted by Rodri View Post
Actually most biblical scholars believe that the year 1 A.D. was around 3 or 4 years after Jesus was born. This is only relevant to the Gregorian callendar, which is the one that we use now.

It raises an interesting point about the year 2,000 and the celebration of the millenium. I think we can all agree that our callendar would have started counting at year 1?
Now a millenium is one thousand years, so for a millenium to pass, one thousand years need to have passed. If you start counting from year 1, a thousand years doesn't pass until the end of year 1,000.
We celebrated the "new millenium" at the end of the year 1999, when it should have been celebrated at the end of the year 2,000.

It's a minor point but it does illustrate how our methods of marking time are really quite meaningless, especially in predicting the end of the world based upon a certain date.

Personally I think that the planet will last until the sun swallows it up. It's questionable if human beings will survive anywhere near as long as that.
We all agree that the counting as we currently have it started with the birth of a guy called Jesus of Nazareth, right? I don't think that's up for discussion.

So... At his birth, or at anyone's birth, how old was he? Or how old were you???

1????? Because that's what you think....