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Psalm 50:22
“Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.”
When most of us were in school, everybody knew that the terms “BC” and “AD” meant Before Christ and Anno Domine, meaning “in the year of our Lord.” But those terms are disappearing as authors now prefer the terms “CE” and “BCE”, which are abbreviations for “Common Era” and “Before the Common Era.”
As the online encyclopedia Wikipedia points out, “since the later twentieth century, use of CE and BCE has been popularized in academic and scientific publications.” It is also being used “by publishers wishing to emphasize secularism and/or sensitivity to non-Christians.” In other words, they are changing the terms to erase Jesus from history under the guise of not wishing to offend anyone. The secularists, on the other hand, have no qualms about offending Christians.
This is what secularism does. It obscures the truth and even revises history in subtle or overt ways. Applied chemist and creation scientist Mark Cadwallader says that the use of CE and BCE is “clearly another example of the assault on Christianity. Radical atheists,” he says, “have been agitating for freedom from any reference to Christianity and especially its founder. They will disguise and revise history itself to obscure the truth of Jesus Christ.”
Here at Creation Moments, we believe that truth will ultimately prevail, but we must all do our part. That’s why we encourage you to do everything you can to make all people, young and old, aware of the truth and consistency of a biblical worldview. And keep on using BC and AD!
Prayer: Heavenly Father, though sinful man is trying to erase Your Son from history, they will not succeed. Someday every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord! Amen.
Author: Steven J. Schwartz
Ref: M. Cadwallader, “Another Attempt to Erase Jesus from History,” 2/27/12. https://creationmoments.com/content/another-attempt-erase-jesus-history. Photo: Mark Cadwallader.
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