DEBUNKING THE CONSPIRACY THEORY

[Randy Carson]

Tacitus references the death of the apostle James.

And why do you believe that you cannot accept the four canonical gospels as well as the Gospels of Thomas and Peter as historical sources? Bart Ehrman does.

Have you done some research that he has not done?

Please link to the document. What I have read is that he references what Christians believe but maybe you have a different document in mind

This book, written by an atheist who is also a world-class scholar, is devastating to mythicists:

http://www.amazon.com/Did-Jesus-Exist-Hi...B0053K28TS

Tacitus: pp 54-56
Josephus: pp 57-66

"Once is it conceded that the Gospels can and should be treated as historical sources, no different from other historical sources infused with their authors' biases, it starts to become clear why historians have almost universally agreed that whatever else one might say about him, Jesus of Nazareth lived in first-century Palestine and was crucified by the prefect of Judea. It is not because "the Gospels say so" and that it mst therefore be true. It is for a host of other reasons to scholars who work in the field." (Bart Ehrman, Did Jesus Exist?, 74-75)