(January 24, 2016 at 5:38 pm)dyresand Wrote:(January 24, 2016 at 5:01 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: I took an introduction to history in university, and one thing they told us, is that very little is actually really known about the past in certain way, but rather it's a best guess type of thing. Yet people are discussing like history is learned as absolute fact.
The biggest damning evidence against christianity is there is not record of jesus kept by the Romans.
That should be a big hint to them they are being lied to.
Seriously?
You do know we have less than 10% of all roman documentation produced right?
If you only had access to 10% of the internet, what are the chances you won't have access to the sites you most frequently visit? (90%) Does that then mean those sites do not or Never existed?
For instance Pontius Pilate was an established Roman figure head in the time of Christ and other historians report that on two separate occasions that he himself was just barely able to stop two insurrections.. A insurrection of the people your governing is a very big deal, something that would demand a lot of 'paper work'. (requisitions for soldiers supplies etc..) yet we have none of this. Only the recordings of this event are the two secular historians who record the insurrections. Yet this is considered to be 'vetted history.'
Matter of fact the only thing even written about pilate outside of the bible and the two secular historians is the fact his name appears on what is known as the 'pilate stone.' Their are 4 words two of which are his name.
Now going by your logic if you want to exclude what the bible says we can say pilate started out as governor and after Tiberius died Pilate no longer existed because 'we don't have roman records of it.'