(December 20, 2014 at 12:18 am)Minimalist Wrote: First century Greco-Roman and Jewish texts never heard of him. In fact, the lack of such texts was such an embarrassment to later xtians that they began forging some.
Aside from this being a very bad argument from silence, I don't see any truth in it.
Josephus from AD 93 has two entries, one of which has likely been altered by a Christian scribe (but never proven) and the other indisputable.
Before the bible became an actual book, you have all the letters of Paul from the early to mid 1st century. He was a Jew.
These are just a couple examples that dispute that claim of yours. There are a few more.
