A Personal BC to AD

By Rhiannonw

Sun, 26 Jul 2020
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[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series]

BC:
My life Before I met with Jesus Christ,
Before Conversion to his praise and ways –
ephemeral, elusive happiness,
for emptiness, frustrations filled those days.

And then I heard his words and understood,
I saw his beauty, heard appealing grace.
Amazed, I knew he would accept, forgive
– ran to regenerating warm embrace.

AD:
Now After Death of who I was – my old
self died with him, I have a Helper near;
so After this Deliverance I walk
with him. To all, as King he’ll soon appear.

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Submitted by Nolan on

I read some book and they had it different I think they spoke of BCE I think something like that, do you know what it means Rhiannon it confuses me a bit?

Your hymn is very good, beautiful words 'And then I heard his words and understood'. But in my opinion the bold caps are a bit too bold almost looks like blemishes and one awlays wants lots of spacing it just good style it looks good.

See you, all the best! Nolan &&

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Hi, Nolan. BC is normally used for time 'Before Christ' ie before he came into the world. AD stands for 'in the year of the Lord (Anno Domini is the latin)' so for time after Christ's arrival. Some recently have tried to move away from that acknowldegement of his coming and to introduce BCE and CE standing simply for Before the Current Era and the Current Era, or Common Era.

Here, I've just used the BC/AD concept to describe the change that comes to anyone's heart and life when they meet Jesus Christ, and have him change their life. The idea came out in our pastor's sermon recenly.

I see what you mean about the bold. I just wanted for this once to experiment to make the point clearly to those to whom it may be a totally new idea. Thanks, Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Nolan on

Ok I see, “Before Current Era”, and “Current/Common Era”. Thank-you Rhiannon it makes good sense. I wondered that it was not perhaps according to the real date of Christ's birth because apparently the church tradition is not quite correct. It does seem to be an unnecessary convention but maybe for historians and those guys you know to get different world events and things in correct relative time context. Such things are very important to these people.

And as a suggestion one could try either just ordinary large caps, or bold ordinary text. Let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater. By the way your BC/AD idea is very good it is all very clever (not that I am praising you, or the pastor).

Have a good week Rhiannon! & Nolan

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

I think the thought is that he was probably born at about what we now call 4 BC.

This CE and BCE is just some people wanting to get away from any refernce to Christ. Rhiannon