12-28-2008, 01:45 AM
lt Wrote:You forget an important question: Did this so called Jesus character actually exist?
No historical accounts were written in the time of his supposed existence that mention this man or of natural events claimed (Luke 23:44-45 mentions a 3 hour eclipse and Matthew 27:51-54 mentions a major earthquake, both of which were not recorded by anyone who lived in that period).
You would think that some credible historians would have "of the fame of Jesus" (Matt 14:1), assuming the gospels are true: "there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jersulaem, and from Judaea, and from beyond Jordon." (Matt 4:25).
All claimed "historical" accounts were written by men who lived after the suppose crucifixion.
This is simply not true. Check Flavius Josephus, Cornelius Tacitus or Suetonius. All of these people lived within a few years of Jesus and mentioned him in their writing. Also, until a 1961 discovery the only historical evidence of Pontius Pilate was in the Bible. If there is basically no evidence from Roman historians of one of their own governors why is it so hard to believe that there would not be too many mentions of Jesus who held nowhere near the same status as Pilate in Roman society.