You are making excuses for your boy's absence from the record....but of course insisting that YOUR version is correct. We have far more than 6 first century writers who failed to note anything about your boy but the fact that they did not does not mean that your version is true. In fact, it strongly suggests that your version was made up later on.
Let's add in another factor. Xtians practiced burial. In fact, much like Jews they got in trouble with Roman sanitation laws because of their insistence on burial rather than cremation. And yet....
http://science.nationalgeographic.com/sc...catacombs/
So, again, we start to see physical remains of xtians at about the same time that Justin Martyr started writing about them and Lucian of Samosata started denouncing them. In the 2d century. Not the first.
Let's add in another factor. Xtians practiced burial. In fact, much like Jews they got in trouble with Roman sanitation laws because of their insistence on burial rather than cremation. And yet....
http://science.nationalgeographic.com/sc...catacombs/
Quote:The oldest tunnels date back to the first century. "The Jewish community in Rome built them as cemeteries. Christian catacombs came a century later. They were not secret meeting places to survive persecutions, as historians thought in the past, but burial tunnels, like the Jewish ones," Morabito explains. "They used to grow larger and larger around the tombs of saints because people asked to be buried near their religious leaders."
So, again, we start to see physical remains of xtians at about the same time that Justin Martyr started writing about them and Lucian of Samosata started denouncing them. In the 2d century. Not the first.
