• SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    So he was born 5 years after Jesus died, but saw Jesus die or something, and spent his whole life telling people how awesome Jesus was and to read these books he wrote…?

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      I understood it as he was alive while Jesus was alive but never met him. Being born in 5 AD, annon domino / year of our Lord, meant that Jesus would have been 5 yo went Saul/ Paul was born.

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          A.D., anno domini, meaning “in the year of our Lord”

          Sometimes people think it means “after death,” but that would leave a 33-year gap between BC and AD dates.

          Academia tends to use C.E. now, to mean “common era,” which is indexed to the same timeline but using non-religious language since a majority of people in the world are not Christian.