(March 31, 2014 at 4:23 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: There are none. Josephus wasn't a contemporary.
...and never mentioned Jesus at all. I reject the TF as a forgery and the Jamesian Reference because it spells out "Jesus Bar Damneus" (or Jesus son of Damneus).
The best piece of evidence, relatively speaking, is the oblique and second century reference by Tacitus in his Annals. The reference was so oblique, it didn't even mention the name "Jesus", only that the Christians got their name from their "anointed one" who was crucified by Pilate.
If there was a Jesus, we'll never know much about him.
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
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