(October 21, 2012 at 11:05 am)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:Again, who's to say this exact thing did not happen?
For 1,000 years the arbiters of what was and was not retained from ancient writing were a bunch of xtian monks. Yet, as early as the 4th century they went looking for historical evidence of the godboy, found none and started to forge some of their own because they were embarrassed that he made no mark on history.
As of right now, it appears that no Roman writer heard of your boy. The earliest Roman writers didn't know of any "jesus" although Pliny the Younger had heard of "christians" ( and Suetonius of "chrestians.") The simple fact is that we don't know when "jesus" was concocted and made part of the story.
If you find some evidence which was not forged by embarrassed early xtian fuckwits please let us know.
Obstinate or foolish?
The point I was making was that Christ spent very little time actually involved with His ministry here, and couple that fact with the volumes of the missing day to day records from that time period, one can not say that Roman officals did or did not write about Christ. There is simply not enough data to speak from a factual position, oneway or another. Now that said you need to understand minnie, that if you presist then I will take it to mean the you are just a man of faith and that you faith/heart is telling you soomething you are compelled to believe with or without supporting evidence.
