@h311inac311
You’re veering. This says nothing about an historic Jesus. It says that in 112 CE, Pliny was aware of a community of Christians.
I am perfectly happy to stipulate that there were Christian communities in the second century.
Boru
Quote:"They were in the habit of meeting on a certain fixed day before it was light, when they sang in alternate verses a hymn to Christ, as to a god, and bound themselves by solemn oath, not to do any wicked deeds, but never to commit any fraud, theft or adultery, never to falsify their word, nor deny a trust when they should be called upon to deliver it up; after which it was their custom to separate, and them then reassemble to partake of food - but food of an ordinary and innocent kind" - Pliny the Younger Roman author and administrator. in a letter to the Emperor Trajan in about 112 A.D.
You’re veering. This says nothing about an historic Jesus. It says that in 112 CE, Pliny was aware of a community of Christians.
I am perfectly happy to stipulate that there were Christian communities in the second century.
Boru
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