Comment on Jesus was Jewish, but Christians aren't

JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Was it though? Like back then?

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  • scala@lemmy.ml ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Back then it was technically the year 3000 something of recorded history. Christianity declared that that’s when time started.

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    • shawn1122@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Romans but yes, Christian Romans after the religion took over the empire.

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  • NovaSel@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Back then they didn’t use Jesus’s birth (or at least, the date Dionysius Exiguus thought was Jesus’s birth) as the epoch for counting the years.

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