Say it isn’t so!!??

I started reading, at the request of a friend that loaned it to me, today (OK, 2nd Edition, but you should always buy the newest right?). In the first chapter I started seeing dates such as 285 B.C.E and 95 C.E. I was like “what the?”… So, looking to the side I see a “Manna from Heaven” (a cute little box throughout the book that has insight into what you are reading) that deals with this. It seems that in 2003 we were in the process of changing B.C. (Before Christ) to B.C.E. (Before Common Era) and A.D. (Anno Domini, or Year of Our Lord (Not “After Death” as many say!!) to C.E. (Common Era). I’ve NEVER heard this before, have you? It doesn’t seem to have stuck, as I have read MANY books published after then, and they still use the “old” words to describe before or after the coming of Christ.

So, which is the politically correct way to go? (Not that I will change from B.C. and A.D.!!)

I’m back!!

After an extremely long, longer than expected, absence I am back at the computer. Over the next few days you should start seeing postings here again.

I did want to call attention to a very good friend of mine and his new Blog. Ed created a company a few years ago called Oasis International that distributes Bibles and other Christian based books to many parts of Africa. He recently went modern and created a Blog that I would like to share with you: http://oasisinternational.typepad.com/ Please drop by and check them out. If you can, help them acquire the building/compound they are currently in and about to lose!!

Stay tuned!