Ancient writings of famous writers like Josephus, Tacitus, Pliny the Younger, the Babylonian Talmud (70-500 AD) mentioned Jesus as a historical figure, as the founder of the new "religion" back then whose followers called themselves Christians and who met together every Sunday morning, at the break of dawn, to commemorate the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, doing communion.
Emperor Nero killed and persecuted many Christians, even used them as torchlight, falsely accusing them of setting Rome on fire. And this happened just thirty years after Jesus died. Romans at that time believed Jesus was real and they didn't like the religion he founded thirty years ago that breeds these new people who would rather be persecuted and die than pledge to Caesar.
Also, on the year that Jesus was born, Chinese astronomers recorded a major, slow moving comet that lasted for 70 days. The Jews in Babylon at that time saw the comet and since they've been waiting for their Messiah and saw it as a sign and knew what town He would be born according to prophecies, they followed the star to Bethehem and found baby Jesus there.
And when Jesus died around 33 AD, the great earthquake and three-hour eclipse (from 12:00-3:00 P.M) recorded by the Gospels were mentioned also by Chinese astronomers and Greek historian Phlegon in their writings.
The Gregorian calendar, the one currently used today, broke the world's historical timeline into Before Christ(B.C.) and Anno Domini (Latin for Year of the Lord). And this 2013, you can say is 2,013 years of Christ's years as the Lord. Sorry offended non-believers but we can't change the calendar to console your hurt feelings.
Every religion, every organization, every business, every country, every establishment has a founder. Decades from now, people won't doubt that Google was founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page, and same with Jesus. He founded Christianity and for 2,000 plus years, it's still growing.
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