RE: The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ (Part 1)
November 23, 2014 at 8:33 pm
(This post was last modified: November 23, 2014 at 8:39 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 23, 2014 at 9:41 am)His_Majesty Wrote: A lot of rambling going on in there. Not sure how you drew the conclusion that those accounts have competing views.But.....you...should....be. It's your "case for christ". I shouldn't have to bring this to your attention since you deigned to include it, but..
....like so-
Pliny the younger was the nephew of Pliny the Elder - a military officer (and famous author in his own right) who probably ended his career sometime during the waning years of Nero's reign. You might remember him, supposedly he persecuted christians (so sayeth tacitus and suetonius) to some hilarious degree. Pliny the Younger (and his uncle) were well educated members of the aristocracy and so between them both a number of important positions were held. P the Y was particularly accomplished - he's essentially a case study in roman social strata (due to his being so well documented), who wound up the governor of a place in modern day Turkey.
In case any of this has flown over your head lets sum this up, in reference to the text you hope to use to establish the existence of some "jesus christ".
A well educated and well placed man who was the nephew of a senior military officer during the reign of Nero - who lived and governed in modern day turkey (after a successful legal career all over the region)- didn't seem to know a godamned thing about the christians - and had certainly never been to a trial of a single one of them- who are supposedly all the way to Rome by the time of his writing, being persecuted (and having been persecuted)- and just generally causing trouble all over the place with their well attested and famous ideology and messiah.
But it gets deeper, what was Trajans response to Pliny regarding christians? Calm and tolerant jurisprudence. He told him not to seek them out, he told him not to condemn them on the finger pointing of others, and he told Pliny that if they so much as paid token to Rome all would be dismissed.
-and you'll get every fucking ounce of that from your own source......that you clearly never read.
Any questions?
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