(March 10, 2014 at 6:58 pm)Deidre32 Wrote: Fair enough. But, there is a difference between fact and fiction.
I agree. The difference is as wide as the sea.
(March 10, 2014 at 6:58 pm)Deidre32 Wrote: The problem with your above illustration is ...no secular history books exist to support the Bible's tales.
Tacitus' Annals supports the gospel accounts that Jesus was a Jew who lived in first century Palestine who was crucified by the Prefect of Judaea Pontius Pilate and that Jesus Christ's followers (Christians) were already living in Rome when the great fire in Rome occurred.
Here the historian verifies several key things recorded in the gospels as well as the Acts of the Apostles:
1. Jesus was a man who lived during the reign of Tiberius. This is in the gospels.
2. He was crucified by Pontius Pilate, Prefect of Judaea under Tiberius Caesar. This is in the gospels.
3. Christ's followers were already in Rome when the great fire broke out under Nero. In the Acts of the Apostles, the Apostle Paul's final days were lived out in Rome.
This is not the only secular reference that corroborates events recorded in the gospels.