And yet, Theo, we have Tacitus' comments about Vespasian's miraculous healings and Pliny the Elder ( who died at the eruption of Vesuvius in 79AD ) wrote an entire multi-volume book about the miraculous happenings throughout the Empire and never mentioned anything about your boy. What is more likely?
That EVERY reference to your godboy was destroyed, in spite of the fact that 3-4th century xtians were avidly seeking such references to preserve....and even created a few when they couldn't find any... or that such references never existed in the first place. Occams' razor applies here. Your godboy's deeds were fictions created after the fact.
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/txt/ah/tacitu...ory04.html
That EVERY reference to your godboy was destroyed, in spite of the fact that 3-4th century xtians were avidly seeking such references to preserve....and even created a few when they couldn't find any... or that such references never existed in the first place. Occams' razor applies here. Your godboy's deeds were fictions created after the fact.
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/txt/ah/tacitu...ory04.html
Quote:And so Vespasian, supposing that all things were possible to his good fortune, and that nothing was any longer past belief, with a joyful countenance, amid the intense expectation of the multitude of bystanders, accomplished what was required. The hand was instantly restored to its use, and the light of day again shone upon the blind. Persons actually present attest both facts, even now when nothing is to be gained by falsehood.
