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Originally posted by makinho21
Did Jesus actually walk this earth? Did he actually exist?
nobeliefs.com
(visit the link for the full news article)
ALL CLAIMS OF JESUS DERIVE FROM HEARSAY ACCOUNTS
No one has the slightest physical evidence to support a historical Jesus; no artifacts, dwelling, works of carpentry, or self-written manuscripts. All claims about Jesus derive from writings of other people. There occurs no contemporary Roman record that shows Pontius Pilate executing a man named Jesus. Devastating to historians, there occurs not a single contemporary writing that mentions Jesus.
Originally posted by tinfoilman
So, I'm looking for the record of who he did execute. Anything would be useful. If someone could get me Pilate's execution list or any roman list of crucifictions or executions. Roman birth records or even roman census records would help, but specifically the list of names they took. I know the Romans took excellent records. There must be a list of births and deaths and census data somewhere from the time.
Originally posted by randyvs
Cornelius Tacitus
Originally posted by Kapyong
Gday,
Originally posted by tinfoilman
So, I'm looking for the record of who he did execute. Anything would be useful. If someone could get me Pilate's execution list or any roman list of crucifictions or executions. Roman birth records or even roman census records would help, but specifically the list of names they took. I know the Romans took excellent records. There must be a list of births and deaths and census data somewhere from the time.
Nope.
There are no such records from the time of Pilate at all.
We have only a few books from the 1st century - examples include Philo, Josephus, Seneca, Pliny.
Josephus does mention some specific crucifixions, and he does talk about Pilate.
But there are no 'lists' of births and crucifixions.
But anyway -
Here are some resources you might find helpful :
Classics online :
classics.mit.edu...
www.perseus.tufts.edu...
www.perseus.tufts.edu...
The famous Early Christian Writings :
www.earlychristianwritings.com...
Arranged by date - a superb resource, handy, mainstream, scholarly.
and it's cousin :
earlyjewishwritings.com...
Church fathers :
www.newadvent.org...
Kapyong
[edit on 28-6-2009 by Kapyong]
There occurs no contemporary Roman record that shows Pontius Pilate executing a man named Jesus.
Originally posted by KRISKALI777
reply to post by helen670
Yeah there is a copper scroll too.
Still doesn't substantiate wether the man really existed in the same capacity as the church says.
Bring me his bones then I may believe (after DNA testing, naturally).
Originally posted by tinfoilman
That's a bit misleading in my opinion. Of course there is no record of Pilate executing Jesus. There's no record of Pilate executing anyone. For that matter there are no specific records of who got executed.
Originally posted by Wideawake08
So apparently for over 2009 years Our yearly calender is based on a fictitious person.
Originally posted by Wideawake08
I know this article will mean NOTHING to the unbelievers as they will say this link really doesn't prove anything...as they completely ignored my previous post! To them SATAN exists but Jesus Christ doesn't..and for those that don't believe in Satan GUESS WHAT??? The people running the planet do..
news.nationalgeographic.com...
Originally posted by Kapyong
Gday,
Originally posted by tinfoilman
That's a bit misleading in my opinion. Of course there is no record of Pilate executing Jesus. There's no record of Pilate executing anyone. For that matter there are no specific records of who got executed.
Yah.
While there are no 'records' formally,
it is quite surprising that Philo does not mention Jesus.
Nor did Justus of Tiberias mention Jesus (he wrote a history of Jewish leaders in the 1st century, but didn't mention Jesus.)
I take the view Jesus was a complete myth.
K.
Originally posted by tinfoilman
The point that nobody outside of the Bible wrote about Jesus may be a valid argument, but to pick any one writer such as Philo or Justus just doesn't help because maybe they just didn't like the guy. Who knows?
Originally posted by tinfoilman
We could say, look at all the people that did write about him such as the almost 25,000 manuscripts we have that are written by different authors at different times that referenced Jesus.
Originally posted by tinfoilman
Some of them date to the 2nd century and even the 1st depending on the debate at hand.
Originally posted by tinfoilman
But every time you bring those up people say well those are religious texts so they don't count.
Originally posted by tinfoilman
Remember the New Testament is simply a telling of what happened. That's the style it's written in.
Originally posted by tinfoilman
So, according to that logic any ancient text I could find that mentioned Jesus would instantly be considered a religious text and discounted? No wonder I don't have documentation! lol.
Originally posted by tinfoilman
After all most of the original source manuscripts of the ancient writings from people like Philo, Pliny, Plato, and even Homer are completing missing. They've been reconstructed from fragments and copies just like the New Testament has. To question the Gospel's authenticity means you also have to question the authenticity of all the ancient documents.
Originally posted by tinfoilman
Such as did Pliny the elder really exist since the earliest material we have from him doesn't show up until 750 years later?
Originally posted by tinfoilman
The point is I think a lot of people forget the Bible wasn't put together until much later.
Originally posted by tinfoilman
It's a collection of cross referenced manuscripts by different authors at different times that we have close to 25,000 copies of.
Originally posted by tinfoilman
To say there's no evidence outside the Bible is a little misleading.
Originally posted by tinfoilman
First, we collected it up and put it in the Bible later.
Originally posted by tinfoilman
And we still have no idea how much of their material is still missing.
Originally posted by tinfoilman
For many of them we have less than 10 damaged copies of their works where as the Bible we have close to 25,000 ancient copies.
Originally posted by tinfoilman
In ancient literature before 400 AD the Bible is actually referenced and quoted so much that the New Testament can be up to 99% reconstructed without the sources. Simply by looking at the other literature that quotes from it.
Originally posted by tinfoilman
If Jesus was not real why didn't the historians write about that? When the Christians were being put to death for their beliefs in the thousands why did most if not all the historians just forget to mention he was fake? That's the real question in my opinion.
Originally posted by tinfoilman
Well you really went off, but I think you missed my point.
Originally posted by tinfoilman
First of all, Jesus wasn't a leader. He was a crucified criminal. I just want to get that out. In Jesus's time he would not have been put in a book of Jewish leaders.
Originally posted by tinfoilman
But I think you missed m point. I'm not saying having more copies of the Bible proves it's right. In fact I never submitted any evidence at all.
Originally posted by tinfoilman
This is a hypothetical conversation. I said right in my post that what I was posting doesn't prove anything as it is not evidence. Did you miss that line?
Originally posted by tinfoilman
What I'm saying is the books of the Bible were written by different people at different times and they all confirm and sourced each other.
Originally posted by tinfoilman
Why do they then not count as historical documents?
Originally posted by tinfoilman
True, Philo may have lived in the same area at the same time and not written about Jesus. However, other people that did live in the same time and same area as Jesus did write about Jesus.
Originally posted by tinfoilman
So you would also have to answer the question the other way. If Jesus was not real why did people write about him? My question is just as valid.
Originally posted by tinfoilman
As for the documents that claim Jesus was a myth, what evidence do you have that they are in fact correct that Jesus was not real?
Originally posted by tinfoilman
Also, I wanted to state that it's a myth that the manuscripts are merely copies of each other.
Originally posted by tinfoilman
Remember the Bible was written by many authors. It wasn't just one author, but I think many people forget that.