Alter2Ego Wrote:People do not go to such lengths to disprove the historicity of a person unless they realize the importance of the person they are attempting to disprove and unless they themselves realize the person must have existed in history. For instance, I don't see anybody trying to disprove the historicity of mythical Greek gods. The reason for that is simple: they know such characters are mere fictions of the imagination.
I beg to differ.
http://atheistforums.org/thread-12505.html
By my research alone, Hercules is more real than Jesus by a factor of 25. That is, 25 times more secular historians mention an Historical Hercules than secular historians mention an Historical Jesus.
The only historian that I'm referring to that mentions Jesus is of course Josephus. As it has been pointed out to you, not a single Christian or non-Christian ever quotes Josephus on what he says about Jesus until the time of the Christian historian Eusebius. Care to explain why?
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
