Question:
Does anybody wonder about why there is no evidence...?
biggalloot2003
2013-06-22 07:12:46 UTC
There were many people who made their marks and have been well evidenced by historical documents of christ's time.

Most were emperors, kings or generals. Some were philosophers like Apollonius and Philo. Others were scholars, Strabo is an example. There were playwrights, historians and even scientists of sorts.

All of these people have been well recognized for their brilliance and sometimes their rottenness.

We know how many sacks of grain were harvested in Byzantium. We know the amount of taxes paid by Zarustrians living in Egypt. We know the names of several individuals who attended a play written by Terence.

Doesn't it seem that the son of god walking around would merit some tiny mention?
Eight answers:
2013-06-22 07:13:34 UTC
They use those industrial paper shredders.
Solomon Loves a lot
2013-06-22 14:15:45 UTC
Yes, you would think so ...ha?

Maybe it is not mentioned then, because it was all made up later?







Messiah is never mentioned in any Greek or Roman non Christan Source until 80 years after his death! There is no record of Jesus having lived in these sources. In the entire first Christian Century, Jesus is not mentioned by a single Greek or Roman Historian, Religion Scholar, Politician, Philosopher, or Poet. His name never occurs, in a single inscription, and it is never found in a single piece of private correspondence, zero, zip references! The first time Jesus is mentioned in a Roman Source or a Greek Source, is by a Roman Governor, of a Province of Asia Minor, Governor Pliney in the year 112, eighty years after the death of Jesus, and even then he does not call him by name, but calls him Christ in passing. This is the only reference within 80 years of his death! Jesus is mentioned 2 times very briefly by Jewish Historian, Josephus in the year 93, over 60 years after his death. But these entries are considered implosions by many Historians. But even then, non of these were eyewitnesses, so it is of little value. He is not mentioned in any other Jewish source of the first century at all! If you want to know about Jesus you have to turn to Christan sources. There is no other choice. The earliest Christin Source is the Apostle Paul. But to the surprise to many bible readers, Paul scarcely mention's anything about Jesus words and deeds while he was living. So the earliest Christan sources are the four Gospels, but these are filled absolutely filled with discrepancies, historical mistakes, errors, contradictions, stories that have been changed, and rehanged, and changed yet again.
2013-06-22 14:24:45 UTC
God has always used a few to reach many.



Belief in Jesus spread like wildfire. Maybe you shouldn't brush him off so easily. The whole world has been affected by this one carpenter from Galilee.



When researching remember this: the printing press wasn't invented until the mid 1400's!



Don't be a lazy historian. Seek truth. Don't stop. Test everything.

Hang onto your wallet.

Keep thinking.
KumquatMay
2013-06-22 14:16:57 UTC
he kept a low profile.

I mean, apart from the sermons on the mount to hundreds of people, performing daily miracles, attacking the money changers and vandalising their property, and coming back from the dead, he was almost unnoticeable. It's totally not strange that nothing was written about him at the time, and it in no way points to the fact that he was a fictional character
2013-06-22 14:26:56 UTC
Cool. Now if you could just back that up with evidence of the Big Bang Theory ever starting existence, you'd start making some sense...
Jake
2013-06-22 14:21:24 UTC
Jesus was almost totally unknown at the time of his life, except by a tiny band of followers and a few officials. Then, several hundred years after his death, people officially formed Christianity. Jesus was NOT a "Christian".
Mally Vouge
2013-06-22 14:13:56 UTC
Do you just think that there is no one who created all these things and all these things are *boom* created
George Patton
2013-06-22 14:29:38 UTC
I don't wonder about it. I know why...........


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