(May 2, 2011 at 1:28 pm)Napoleon666 Wrote:(May 2, 2011 at 12:34 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: Even if Josephus' writings weren't forged, why are there no Roman records of Jesus? After all, he was a pretty big troublemaker according to them, and would have been written about.
I had a bible basher answer this one for me, apparently the romans deliberately wiped all knowledge of him from the history books.
How convenient.
But they left in Hannibal? And Attila? And Alaric? And Arminius? And Caligula? And Nero?
Instead they spent all that time and effort to rid themselves of referenes to a ridiculous preacher?
It's a ludicrous assumption.