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Jesus did not rise from the dead -- My debate opening statement.
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RE: Jesus did not rise from the dead -- My debate opening statement.
Quote:He simply noted that Jesus had existed and had been executed by a Roman governor, Pontius Pilate.  Implicit in his silence, Tacitus knew who Jesus was, a religious loon who had been put to death by the Roman authorities, one of many, in fact.

No, he did not.  Tacitus, even if the passage is not a much later interpolation, never heard of anyone named "jesus."  The passage as it exists now refers to "Christus"  ( and more than likely said "Chrestus" originally).  Neither Suetonius, Pliny nor Tacitus ever heard of any fucking "jesus."  In fact, the first Greco-Roman writer to refer to anyone named "jesus" was Celsus writing 6 decades after Tacitus died.
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RE: Jesus did not rise from the dead -- My debate opening statement. - by Minimalist - December 24, 2016 at 12:55 pm

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