It's possible the monk who placed the Anno Domini year was off by a couple of years in calculating the birth of Christ, but you realize using secular dating (BCE/CE) in religious context is a contradiction, right? Christ was born in 1AD and that's a fact because His birth is the cornerstone for our calendar, meaning everything else is relative to that event. Maybe for Mayans it was the year 3540 and for the Chinese it was 5403 - other systems don't matter for Christians.

It's possible the monk who placed the Anno Domini year was off by a couple of years in calculating the birth of Christ, but you realize using secular dating (BCE/CE) in religious context is a contradiction, right? Christ was born in 1AD and that's a fact because His birth is the cornerstone for our calendar, meaning everything else is relative to that event.

It's possible the monk who placed the Anno Domini year was off by a couple of years in calculating the birth of Christ, but you realize using secular dating (BCE/CE) in religious context is a contradiction, right? Christ was born in 1AD and that's a fact because His birth is the cornerstone for our calendar.

It's possible the monk who placed the Anno Domini year was off by a couple of years in calculating the birth of Christ, but you realize using secular dating (BCE/CE) in religious context is a contradiction, right?