Well done. Thanks for the video and the information. God Bless.

Tacitus, Josephus, and Pontius wrote about Jesus. Why would a person born the other day say that Jesus was not real? Why would followers of Jesus Christ face persecution as early as 34 AD if Jesus Christ never existed?

I've heard that the reason there was an accusation of incest was because as we are adopted by God we are now all brothers and sisters in christ. I can easily see a Christian referring to his wife as his sister in Christ and a Roman misunderstanding that.

Thank you, Erik!! Grateful for your videos and blog articles

Plus, there is no manuscript evidence that those portions Tacitus wrote about Christ were later added in by Christians

Where can we read where tacitus saw during 70 a.d

Tacitus was not friendly to Christians because they were fighting Romans. A few years after this supposed fire, Nero ordered Vespesians to go to Judea to retake it after the Jews had killed more than 12,000 soldiers. These were fighters. How can anyone be sure that Tacitus did not use the Gospels for the Pilate reference, making this reference circular? It is very interesting than to Romans, there were no difference between christians followers of Jesus or the Sicari who were fighting Rome. To Romans they were all the same. At least to Tacitus they are one and the same. At the end of Jewish Wars, Josephus says Titus Vespesian went to Rome and executed Simon Peter, the rebel. Was this guy a Christian?

@histguy101

2 жыл бұрын

Do you mean Simon Bar Giora? No, the Christians were not fighting the Romans, nor were they militant revolutionaries. They were a religious sect made up of Jews, Greeks, and Romans, etc. And they were generally pacifists. The only thing we know about the Christians in Jerusalem is that they fled the city and went to Perea after Cestus's army was crushed by Jewish Rebels. As for Tacitus using the Gospels, he covers this in the video: it is very unlikely.

@chriskitchen4772

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The Jews were NOT Christians although some Christians can be Jews.

@kimjensen8207

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@@histguy101 excellent, brother. Kind regards Kim

Tacitus would not have mention the name " Jesus" because the letter " J" did not come into existence until 1524. The Greeks would have used " Izzus".

Okay, according to Tacitus, Jesus existed. That's generally accepted though so we don't really learn anything from Tacitus. I get that some people want to point out that evidence of Jesus existing is weak but that's hardly important. Let them have their opinion, let them be wrong. It can be difficult to definitively prove many things from that time period so we accept what little we know of Jesus and move on. I don't see any impact that this "debate" has on my life today.

The crucified man's drawn donkey's head might not be hate. A mules head symbolizes stubborn as a mule or you won't change his mind ever.

0:45 What does Tacitus say about Jesus? Nothing! He says about someone called Christus. Did he say Jesus?

@CatETru

10 ай бұрын

Christus is a greek word sir..... Christ comes from the Greek word χριστός (chrīstós), meaning "anointed one" that's what his name was in greek..... as they spoke greek at that time in that part of the world.

It's a fact Jesus is also in every major religion

@garybaltiejus7248

2 жыл бұрын

Just because something is part of multiple bullshit organisations doesn't make it a fact Jesus does not prove god why does every theist argument do my head in anyway Jesus was conceived by magic and they didn't have Ivf back then so in my mind that kind of kills the argument right there

@oldboyamv2834

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That depends on how you define major religion.....and interestingly enough none of these major religions that you mentioned believe that he was devine. Only christians believe that. As a side note it is also interesting that in 3 of the 4 gospels Jesus does not claim to be devine. He only makes that claim in John which is the newest of all the gospels. It is important to note that just because someone writes something it does not mean it happened. These are only claims made by an anonymous writer atleast half a century after the alleged event. In fact, the oldest gospel which is Mark, doesn't even mention the virgin birth or any sightings of the resurrected Jesus. In the oldest copies we have it ends when the women find the empty tomb and are to scared to tell anybody of what they saw. The rest was added later on.

@Sm64wii

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@@oldboyamv2834 argument from silence, he is obviously divine in all of them.

@oldboyamv2834

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@@Sm64wii No argument was presented therefore trying to point out any logical fallacies seems redundant. I only presented facts. Do you dispute any of them?

@cameronclark8298

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@@oldboyamv2834Can you give proof for all your claims?