Does bc stand for Before Christ?

Answer 1

Yes it does.

B. C. means before christ

A.D. means addo domini (i think that's how you spell it) and that's latin for "the time of christ" or "the walk of christ" or whatever.

people try to take christ out of it by saying it's BCE (before common era) but don't be fooled...it was always before christ because they separated the years between when Jesus was born, and everything before that to get this whole year thing started.

so B.C. in The Bible would be the old testiment

and A.D. would be the new testment and onward...

hope this helps!

Answer 2

Yes, although that is not entirely accurate. When the Roman abbot Dionysus Exiguus devised the new Christian calendar in 533, he intended it to start on the death of King Herod.

Exiguus knew that it was impossible to say when Jesus was born, but he knew, or thought he knew, when Herod died. So, he chose to begin his Christian calendar on the year of Herod's death, and he based this on the reign of the Roman emperor Augustus. Unaware that Augustus only adopted that name four years after his reign began, going by his birth name of Octavius until then, Exiguus commenced his calendar just 4 years too late. If Christ was born during the reign of Herod, he was born some time before 4 bc.

Answer 3

Yes BC means "Before Christ"