Friday, June 9, 2017

Not too long ago, I came across a date that was followed by the letters BCE.  I was curious about the E, thinking maybe BCE was Before Christ Existed, but it seemed a little unnecessary to suddenly add an E.  So, I looked it up online.  To my surprise, it was a new form of political correctness and stood for Before Common Era, and A.D. was changed to CE, or Common Era.  Then, for me, the question was what was the dividing point between BCE and CE, and the only event that occurred that separated them was the birth of Jesus Christ, and we already have designations to divide time at that point.  If people don't want to acknowledge the reality of Christ, they should simply use the Jewish calender.  Changing the designation of what we call things before and after the birth of Christ does not change the reason for the dividing point in history.  Even if in the name of wanting to be politically correct we change the terms, we cannot change the reason for the terms.  There may be those who do not want to retain the knowledge of God in their life or the world, but they cannot remove the existence of God, nor the fact that Jesus Christ divides history.

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