(February 24, 2019 at 8:43 pm)Yonadav Wrote:(February 24, 2019 at 8:04 pm)PRJA93 Wrote: Then it's also not reasonable to expect writings just 100 years after his death to have survived to this day... right?
Some religious guy met with success writing about Jesus and his religious sect wrote a whole bunch of copies. Being a religious order, they tried to preserve all of those copies. Some rather old copies managed to survive.
By comparison, Joe Schmo saw Jesus during his lifetime and wrote about him. Joe Schmo is basically a nobody, and no one ever copies his work. Or not very many copies of his work are written. Nothing written by Joe Schmo survives to this day.
So your suggestion is that no important figures wrote about Jesus during his lifetime? But 150 years later someone important enough wrote about him? Sure - that's possible. Seems like a convenient excuse, but yea it's possible.
If you're frightened of dying, and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the Earth.
