Peg writes:
there is evidence that Jesus was a real person and not just a myth.
Not that I've seen.
Apart from my 'calender' post, there is Josephus the Jewish historian.
You admitted yourself a calendar proofs nothing. Josephus is controversial at the least, and forged at the worst.
So he wasnt a christian and cannot be accused of making it up to promote a 'myth'
In his writings about the goings on in Jerusalem he wrote about a certain man, James, who was arrested by the sanhedrin.
quote:
[The high priest Ananus] convened the judges of the Sanhedrin and brought before them a man named James, the brother of Jesus who was called the Christ, and certain others.
This confirms that Jesus, who was called the Christ was a real historical person.
Actually, the fact that Josephus remained a jew proofs he couldn't have written that.
The Roman historian Tacitus, who hated Christianity wrote after about Nero's persecution of the Christians in approx 100 ce.
quote:
Christus, the founder of the name, had undergone the death penalty in the reign of Tiberius, by sentence of the procurator Pontius Pilatus, and the pernicious superstition was checked for a moment, only to break out once more, not merely in Judaea, the home of the disease, but in the capital [Rome] itself.
You do realize Jesus isn't mentioned anywhere here do you? Christus is a title, not a name.
there is also Justin Martyr who wrote in the middle of the 2nd century about the death of Jesus:
quote:
That these things did happen, you can ascertain from the Acts of Pontius Pilate.
And of course, this is not proof either, first of all it's more then a century after the event, second, there are no known "acts of Pilate".
While the official records of Pontius Pilate no longer exist, they must have existed in the 2nd century, otherwise Justin Martyr would not have used them as evidence of what he was saying.
There could've been, but they could just as easily be forgeries.
this is just a few examples here, there is much more that provides evidence that Jesus was a real person... it should probably be for another thread though.
It should, and there isn't.
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